Today's Topics:
1. freedom news: Belarus: Interview with anarchist Vlad M.
after 30 days of arrest (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
after 30 days of arrest (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #311 -
Antipatriarchy, American elections: the enemies of
Antipatriarchy, American elections: the enemies of
our enemies
are not our friends (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
are not our friends (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. UK, ACG: Mutual Aid in Action -- A comrade writes about the
Walthamstow Hoe Street Ward Mutual Aid group
Walthamstow Hoe Street Ward Mutual Aid group
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Italy, Without Borders is in Turin, Italy (it) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL press release: All
Anti All Anti Covid (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Anti All Anti Covid (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Czech, AFED - Mikola Dziadok: They threatened to rape me,
take me to the Gestapo or to the forest [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
take me to the Gestapo or to the forest [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Federación Anarquista uruguaya - FAU: Joint
internationalist statement for the freedom of the political
prisoners and the social uprising of the Chilean region (ca)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
internationalist statement for the freedom of the political
prisoners and the social uprising of the Chilean region (ca)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. ait russia - France: Act 108 of the Yellow Vest movement and
protests against the security law [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Pramen contacted a comrade, the anarchist Vlad M. after 30 days he spent in
prison and talked about the detention and interesting people who you can meet at
the administrative arrest. We didn't forget to ask him about his hunger strike,
as well as the situation with the coronavirus in prison. ---- Pramen: Vlad, hello
and welcome back! How are you?! ---- Vlad M: Hi! Thank you. I'm fine more or
less, in any case it could be much worse. ---- Pramen: Now, many principles of
anarchist organization are used by ordinary people to fight the regime. How does
this make Belarusian society anarchist and how important is decentralization in
the current protests?
Vlad: Well, these principles do not yet make Belarusian society anarchist even
close, but undoubtedly this movement is in the right direction and I like it.
Yes, now the protest is decentralized and it has no leader. There is no such
person who can be imprisoned and the protest will be immediately deflated.
Previously, everything was different: the authorities were preventively detaining
for example Statkevich or Severinets, people went out without knowing what to do,
and that was the end of it. Today, everything is different and repression of this
nature no longer works. Every protester is a leader, and for the protests to
stop, the authorities will have to put everyone away, which is impossible. I
think thanks to this very moment, the protests have been going on for 4 months now.
Pramen: Many liberals are already burying Lukashenko and believe that no matter
what happens today, Lukashenko will stop being president anyway. What do you
think about it?
Vlad: Lukashenko will stop being president anyway, it's indisputable. Today's
protest has somewhat reduced in scale, but there are reasonable explanations for
this, from the cold in the street to the covid epidemic. It would be naive to
expect that the number of protesters would increase with the cold weather, and a
large number of people fell ill at the same time. Very soon economic problems
will be added here, and then everybody will come out on the streets, including
those who have cold weather today.
Pramen: In the last few months you have been under administrative arrest for 45
days. You have never received these punishments right after the march - the
arrests were carried out by punitive officers from GUBOPiKa. What do you think is
the reason for such a high interest in you and other activists of the anarchist
movement?
Vlad: The interest in the anarchist movement for GUBOPiKa is due to the fact that
the anarchists remained essentially the only organized group on the streets. No
party, movement or organization today goes out to protest in an organized way,
because at one time they were defeated and their leaders were repressed.
Belarusians participating in protests either go out on their own or in small
groups of friends or colleagues. There is also the option of people coming out in
yards and districts, but these are still unfamiliar people who do not have a
certain level of trust among themselves and who may behave quite differently in
certain situations. It is much more difficult to divide and detain a group that
is close to each other, so the more such groups are on the streets, the harder it
will be for the pigs to strangle the protest. For them, the ideal option is the
complete absence of such groups, so in my opinion, that's why the anarchists are
given such close attention.
Pramen: Can you tell us a little about the last time the detention took place?
How were you found?
Vlad: We met a friend of ours, who was detained right at his workplace and
sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest. Several people approached the
detention centre itself, while others were waiting for them in a cafe. About an
hour after we all gathered for coffee and snacks, more than a dozen aggressive
masked individuals broke into the facility. They threw for a second some kind of
near-identification, in which it was simply impossible to see anything, and
offered to follow them. Obviously, those who met their comrade near the detention
facility were followed by outside surveillance, which led them to our common
meeting place.
Pramen: Was force applied to you during the detention? To other anarchists?
Vlad: This time no physical force was applied to me personally, only my hands
were forced behind my back and handcuffs were put on (which were then replaced by
plastic ties). Nevertheless, a comrade, who was re-arrested for another 15 days,
was beaten and gassed on the territory of the police station. For these actions,
the staff of the GUBOPIK specifically took him to the service car so that their
actions would not get on camera.
SIZO-6 Baranovichi
Pramen: After the first 15 days, you were held back. We heard that the Minsk
GUBOPIK officers had personally come to Baranovichi. Really? And if so, why such
attention to your group of detainees?
Vlad: Yes, I had a GUBOPIK employee present at the court, who had to come to the
court in person to testify against us. Apparently, in the pre-trial detention
center in Baranovichi for technical reasons there is no possibility to organize
the so-called courts by video communication, so the so-called judges have to go
from the court building to the territory of the pre-trial detention center, and
the pig, as we can see, was not even more lucky - he had to go on a business trip
to testify against the anarchists. It is worth noting that the words of this cop
were the only "evidence" of our "offenses". That is, without his presence, it
would have been difficult to condemn us, although I would not have been surprised
if his words had just been read off the paper, and the petition to question the
witness would have been denied...
Pramen: Who was sitting in the cell with you? What were you talking about with
your neighbors?
Vlad: Out of 30 days I spent the first 5 in Minsk on Okrestin, and the remaining
25 - in the detention center-6 in Baranovichi. There, as I understand it, all
100% of administrative detainees are political, so in any cell you can count on
good company. People are a cross-section of the whole society, representatives of
different ages (from 18 to 60) and different professions (from bricklayer to CEO,
from doctor to engineer, from miner to IT). Conversations, of course, are first
of all about protests and politics: who was detained, who was tried, who was
beaten, disputes about the date when the regime finally collapses, about the
effectiveness of sanctions, the adequacy of the Coordinating Council, and so on.
Due to information isolation, the detainees coming later than the others have to
tell about the news they have read in the last days before the detention while
the others were already sitting here. I remember especially how members of the
Belaruskali striking committee gave a lecture on potash mining and production,
with drawings and blueprints, everything as it should be.
Pramen: Coronavirus is raging in Belarus' prison system now. Can you tell us a
little bit about your detention conditions? Were there any patients in your cell?
How did the administration treat them?
Vlad: During the second part of my stay in the detention center in Baranovichi, a
real epidemic broke out. At first we found out that in the neighboring cell the
boy had a fever and bed regime (right in the cell, among healthy cellmates). In
3-4 days we moved to another building, and as a result, our cells were combined.
This guy felt normal already, but he completely lost his sense of smell. A few
more days later, having moved to a new cell, the guys asked us about our
well-being and told us that they had already gotten over it all. And also about
the fact that a few recently released people wrote to them in a letter that they
were doing covid tests, which all were positive. After 2 days I got a sore throat
and fever and after a while I also lost the sense of smell (which has not yet
recovered). Administration's attitude to this situation - the order to wear masks
when the cell door opens, go to shower and walk (once or twice a week instead of
daily) only with a mask. This is the end of all activities to combat covid. The
maximum temperature of the paramedic's non-contact thermometer, which he recorded
in my presence, was 36.8. In most cases, the readings do not even reach 36.0.
Pramen: After being re-arrested, you went on a hunger strike. Can you explain a
little why you decided to take such a radical step? How did the jailers and your
neighbors feel about it in the detention center itself?
Vlad: Being in detention, when you are constantly detained, you are tried in a
closed regime with a lot of procedural violations, when a pig testifies looking
you in the eye, and the judge easily makes a decision without absolutely no
evidence against you, it is difficult to do nothing. I found myself in a
situation where GUBOPIK had full control over my life, so I have only one tool
left in my arsenal to influence it. Therefore, as soon as the judge finished
reading the sentence, I immediately declared that I was on hunger strike in
protest against the unfair verdict of the court and in connection with political
persecution. Thus, it gave me back the feeling that I could influence my life and
death to some extent even while in detention. The jailers responded to this first
with complete disregard, and then with petty packets like sending a parcel that
came back to me to the addressee or refusing to accept letters for sending. Once
there were also threats of forced feeding. The neighbors treated me with respect
and support, for which I am very grateful to them. They constantly watched my
physical condition, even the neighboring cell asked me every morning how I was
feeling.
Pramen: How was the hunger strike for 15 days and what can you advise your
friends and colleagues who are thinking of taking the same measures?
Vlad: Not exactly 15 days, but only 12 days, because I declared a hunger strike
only in court, 3 days after my "second" detention. I would like to advise others
to take such a decision, at least in a balanced way, and not just on emotions,
because the test is more difficult than it seems at first sight. After refusing
to eat, being in prison becomes much more difficult: the feeling of hunger and
malaise do not allow you to concentrate on things that are great help to pass the
time (reading, for example). Because of this time lasts much longer, an order of
magnitude longer. Also do not expect any instant results from it, these results
are likely to be absent at all or hidden from you. If you decide to go on hunger
strike, it is worth talking about it as much as possible: a statement at the
court, the transfer of information to freedom, a written statement to the head of
the pre-trial detention facility about your hunger strike, to remind about it
during each check, before each meal and in general in any convenient case. On the
other hand, it is a great opportunity to test yourself for firmness and
willpower, but it is worth considering that this test can not be passed and thus
demoralize yourself.
Pramen: Have you received any letters or cards during the 30 days of detention?
How did the news reach your "home"?
Vlad: Yes, I got letters from some comrades, but at the moment I know that at
least a few letters/cards did not reach me. This is from the fact that the guys
themselves were wondering if their messages came. It is impossible to calculate
the total percentage of missed letters/postcards. All news were learned more from
people who were detained later. I heard about all the important events that
happened during my arrest while being there. Though, of course, these news came
to me with some delay.
Letters to prisoners
Pramen: All the prisoners are charged per day. Did you get a discount for the
days of hunger strike?
Vlad: An hour before the end of my arrest I was taken to a room, something like a
captress, showed a document on payment, where the full cost of "services" was
specified and asked if I would sign it despite the refusal to eat. The guard who
showed me the document did not know how events would develop if I refused to sign
it, but it was obvious that this would be an obstacle to my timely release. I
decided to put my signature under the document and an hour later was already
free. But even now I don't know if I did it right or not. In any case, I have not
made the payment yet.
Pramen: How do you feel now? Did you have any problems after 24 hours?
Vlad: As of today (the third day after my release) I feel much better, although I
still have a long way to go to full recovery. Every day the strength increases,
but I'm still on a hard diet. The process of getting out of hunger strike is no
less complicated and in terms of time it corresponds to the duration of the
hunger strike. Many vital organs have switched to another mode during this period
of time and now they need time to smoothly return to normal mode. In addition to
all this, the sense of smell has not yet returned.
Pramen: And finally - what would you like to say or wish your comrades on the
streets?
Vlad: I would like to say that we are on the right track and we are doing
everything right. Repression against us is another proof of this. We must not
give up or give up, everyone must continue doing what they do.
https://pramen.io/en/2020/12/interview-with-anarchist-vlad-m-after-30-days-of-arrest/
https://freedomnews.org.uk/belarus-interview-with-anarchist-vlad-m-after-30-days-of-arrest/
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Message: 2
Biden recently elected 46 th president of the United States and if we can rejoice
departure of Donald Trump, this electoral victory is not ours. Once again, it is
about a man of more than 50 years, white and bourgeois whose ideas are in no way
progressive. The sexual assault of which he is accused and his behavior towards
women do not make him an ally but a political opponent. ---- Joe Biden negotiated
a program with the Democratic left wing to keep her quiet during the campaign: a
little more redistribution, minimum wage, health insurance, green against global
warming, international cooperation. He is no longer hostile to the right to
abortion. Its vice-president is the first woman in this post, feminist and
supporter of minorities, she was nevertheless a repressive prosecutor.
Last spring, the media reported accusations of sexual assault that "embarrassed
the countryside." Among them, a former parliamentary assistant who accuses Biden
in 2019 of repeated touching and digital rape dating from 1993 when he was a
senator from Delaware. On several occasions, Tara Reade, the victim, tried to be
heard, without success. Worse - and yet so usual - she had been put in the closet
before being fired. Biden was able to continue his life without being worried and
had not, until last March, to comment on these accusations, since he was never
questioned about these facts.
If for Biden no trace exists, the San Luis Obispo Tribune nevertheless obtained a
document from the court dating back to 1996 in which there is mention of sexual
harassment at work by Joe Biden [1].
Reade is not the only one accusing Biden. Since the 1990s, at least seven women
have reported touching. His opponent during this campaign, Trump, is accused of
sexual harassment and abusive behavior by at least a dozen women. Biden received
the support of Trump who encouraged him to "fight", solidarity between aggressors
plays with (false) political conflicts.
Solidarity between aggressors
Qanon, Trump's fanatic conspiratorial group focused on baselessly attacking the
Democratic candidate in these elections by accusing him of pedophilia. And if,
many videos circulating on the web, indeed show an annoying Joe Biden as he is
tactile and directive with children and young adolescents, no complaint for
pedophilia or no accusation has been made against the new President. In any case
these accusations by the conspiratorial right did not aim to protect children,
worse, they participated in making invisible the words of the women who accuse Biden.
During his first campaign and from the start of his mandate, Donald Trump has
never ceased to attack women: three days after his inauguration, on January 23,
2017, he prohibited federal funding of any foreign non-governmental organization.
which supports, from near or far, the right to abortion throughout the world. If
Trump's presidency was not good news for women's rights as its relentless attacks
and gender-based assaults have punctuated her tenure, Biden's case also concerns us.
Faced with sexist aggressors who hold the reins of power, it is essential to
build a feminist and popular counter-power.
Christine (UCL Sarthe), Lucie (UCL Amiens) and Sarah (UCL Bordeaux)
Validate
[1]"Exclusive: 1996 court document confirms Tara Reade told of harassment in
Biden's office" , San Luis Obispo Tribune , May 7, 2020
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Elections-americaines-les-ennemis-de-nos-ennemis-ne-sont-pas-nos-amis
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Message: 3
While Johnson and Co have careened from one profit driven Covid-19 blunder to
another during the last nine months, from underequipping front line workers to
unnecessary deaths of older people in care homes, mutual aid networks have shown
that there is a practical alternative to capitalism and its uncaring nature.
Local mutual aid groups sprang up in March in response to the first lockdown,
proliferating across the country in following months. Some were initiated by
activists including anarchists, others by people with no experience of politics
or activism. ---- This explosion of grassroots activity has provided a real time
example of the innate tendency towards human solidarity described by Kropotkin in
Mutual Aid. At best, mutual aid groups have been exemplars of the maxim ‘from
each according to their ability to each according to their need', people in local
communities instinctively and voluntarily supporting each in diverse and mutually
beneficial ways. Perhaps not surprisingly however, a number were fairly quickly
taken over by controlling Labour Party councillors with stultifying
‘administrators managing WhatsApp groups, while some others have adopted a
traditional charitable approach of helping ‘the needy'. Anecdotal accounts also
suggest that involvement in mutual aid groups has decreased, with less people
active during the second lockdown.
But an impressive number of mutual aid groups continue to thrive, run by and for
people in local communities - from housing estates to rural towns. One such
group is to be found in Walthamstow, in northeast London. This is an area marked
by gentrification, hipster makeovers with social engineering brought about by
property developments, aided and abetted by the local Waltham Forest Labour
Council. The Walthamstow Hoe Street Ward Mutual Aid group is something of an
antidote to this, supporting those at the sharp end of the Covid-19 situation
continuously since the first lockdown in the spring. Creating a large network of
volunteers, on some levels it has roles very similar to many other mutual aid
groups - helping with tasks such as doing shopping or collecting medicines for
people unable to leave home. It has also built up an impressive volunteer
operation as part of a Waltham Forest-wide Food for the Forest initiative,
cooking and delivering meals for some 40 people within the ward. Alongside this a
weekly Food Stall provides a different model of organisation, a small but
inspiring example of genuine mutual aid in practice - of interest to anarchists
and activists elsewhere.
Our Food Stall started on The Drive, a local Council owned housing estate, in
April, providing fresh veg and fruit along with non-perishable items such as
tinned foods, pasta and rice. Open weekly, it's avowedly not a food bank - open
to all with no questions asked, no referrals needed and no stigma attached to
using it. As well as supplies from London-wide food sources such the Felix
Project (with the much appreciated help of the Hornbeam, a Walthamstow community
cafe) lots of donations have also been forthcoming from local community,
including allotment holders in the summer.
During the first lockdown it provided a lifeline for many tenants unable or
afraid to go to supermarkets or other shops and continues to do this, especially
for those who have lost jobs or are shielding. But it's not one way traffic, not
a case of well-meaning members of the community just helping those ‘less
fortunate': we have consciously strived not to perpetuate a ‘giver versus
recipient' model of operation. While started by a small group of mutual aid
activists, the Food Stall project involves and is run by residents who initially
came into contact coming to get food for themselves and their families. As well
as running the stall on Thursdays, volunteer residents are involved in driving
transport to pick up supplies, taking bagged up food to housebound households and
doing publicity. We now have some ten local residents regularly involved, a
diverse group reflecting the multi-cultural working class community in
Walthamstow. There is an incredibly friendly feel to the operation. It's become a
valuable social hub for those running or just using it in the time of covid
isolation. It's a great example of mutual aid in practice! Non-bureaucratic,
there are no ‘leaders', with group decisions taken at the stall, through an
accessible WhatsApp group, and outdoor meetings.
Its impact has been clear from feedback and conversations at the stall. In line
with our open access philosophy and unlike traditional food banks, we don't ask
for or require personal details. However we have kept some basic but impressive
statistics. An average of 25 plus people use the stall each week, with 104
households comprising 350 people since the end of May. Some people using the
stall have lost jobs, have health issues and struggle to make ends meet, while
for others it is their main social contact of the week. As Sunak's austerity
‘under another name' bites, we are absolutely sure that more people will start to
use it and become involved, and aim to remain open throughout the winter.
There is no community centre building on the estate, so we approached Housing
officers and the local Councillor with a request to use one of the many empty
garages on the estate as a physical storage space, but were told that the garages
can't be used for storage! So much for Labour Council community empowerment!
Instead we use a tenant's small pram shed to store non-perishable items and have
to ship in most supplies each week on the day of the stall.
The social solidarity aspect of the Food Stall has created the basis for further
initiatives in the future, with the possibility of the project evolving into a
Food Co-op mooted. There is interest in this, although we are not yet as advanced
as Cooperation Town community ventures elsewhere in London and further afield.
Meanwhile, the Food Stall project has been a small but great example of
self-organisation and Kropotkinesque mutual aid - a little seed of a possible
future society!
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/12/05/mutual-aid-in-action/
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Message: 4
Turin. Saturday 5th December. Companies * of the Turin Anarchist Federation
participated in the morning garrison in support of the struggle for the reopening
of Maria Adelaide, one of the city hospitals that have paid dearly for the
consequences of the numerous cuts in health care spending, as in the case of the
Waldensian and the many aids health wiped out by the same criminal policies
implemented by all national, regional and municipal governments that have
followed in recent years. While 72 million euros a day go inexorably to war
spending, thousands continue to risk their lives or die for lack of prevention
and adequate treatment, alarming evidence that, beyond any emergency rhetoric,
has represented the crude "normality" of the times we are going through,
Once the garrison on the long dora was completed, we moved collectively to piazza
Castello, in front of the Palazzo della Regione, where a garrison was foreseen in
opposition to the large useless and harmful works, in particular of the
Turin-Lyon railway line, 15 years after that that it was the revolt of Venaus, a
popular uprising capable of making an entire valley ungovernable and putting a
real halt to the advance of the deadly TAV project.
Always the same and very central Turin square was finally filled in the early
afternoon with banners, flags and various tools of the trade brought to the
square by the workers of entertainment and culture, hard hit by the social crisis
since the pandemic entered the scene in March.
They would like to force us to choose whether to starve or die of Covid. It is no
longer possible to stand by and watch. It is time to choose the rejection of this
forced choice. It's time to get organized and fight. Only the direct action of
male and female workers can lead to concrete achievements and stop once and for
all the infernal machine that places profit above the life and freedom of all!
Below is the text of the flyer distributed during these events:
"Our lives are worth more than their profits. Let's destroy state and capital!
Eight months after the start of the pandemic, nothing has been done to remedy the
criminal choices of governments over the past 30 years.
In 10 years, 43,000 healthcare jobs have been cut. In Italy, the number of beds
fell by 30 percent between 2000 and 2017.
The government fiddled with wheelchair benches and the bridge over the strait,
but did not allocate a euro to hire doctors, nurses, health assistants, to open
new departments, for prevention and treatment in the area.
Today health care is collapsing.
For those who can afford them, there are private clinics, prevention and
treatment. For others, life is more and more a lottery.
But fate never decides. Governments decide. They have chosen to finance
industries, military missions, Tav and major works. In 2020, about 26.3 billion
were allocated in military spending, one and a half billion more than in 2019.
In Turin they plan to transform the former Maria Adelaide hospital, one of the
many closed in Piedmont in recent years, into a luxury student residence. For
Covid patients, they set up a lazaret of camp tents in the same structure as the
Valentino where in June they deported the homeless evicted from the garrison in
front of the municipality.
Everywhere there are lines of poor, homeless, without income, precarious. To put
together lunch and dinner, many adapt to a myriad of precarious, underpaid, black
jobs, without protection.
If there is no money for rent and bills, health protection becomes a luxury that
few can afford.
The pandemic crisis has triggered an unprecedented social crisis, which here and
there erupts in moments of social revolt, where the sirens of populism,
nationalism, identity closure, denial of the pandemic sound loud.
The containment measures adopted in October by the government reduced many people
to starvation, without stopping the virus. A virus that will continue to run
until the logic of profit and war is more important than our lives.
The government has taken full powers and uses out of the ordinary tools. The
state of emergency has become permanent.
The government fears riots and donates a handful of money. If they are not
enough, the authoritarian turn experienced during the first wave of the pandemic
could open the door to further disciplinary tightening.
The devices put in place to target the undesirables, the excess bodies, the
subversives are no longer enough: Conte and his gang, step by step, are putting
the entire population under military control. The evening curfew is a gymnastics
of obedience to suppress any hint of social insurgency.
A society of care is a beautiful prospect, which nevertheless shatters in the
face of the tired revival of a pact between the state and subordinate classes,
which has neither the social strength to impose itself nor the ability to
re-construct a strong social imaginary. Especially in an era marked by the
constant renegotiation of the few protections that survived the fighting season
of the 1970s.
Delegating education, health, transport, conflict management, the choice of the
"common good" to the state has led to a slippery slope, which the pandemic crisis
has only accelerated.
The lives of the poor are empty to lose, worthless, expendable lives. Lives that
are not worth outside the cage of produce, consume, crack.
A real society of care is built by creating networks of solidarity and mutual
support, removing ourselves from the institution and acting on the conflict for
the expansion of the spaces of autonomy.
Changing the course is possible. With direct action, building non-state political
spaces, multiplying the experiences of self-management.
Our lives are not commodities. We fight against those who exploit us and command us!
A world without governments, masters, armies is possible and urgent. "
Turin Anarchist Federation
https://www.facebook.com/giacomo.ratto.7/posts/3732040823495644
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Message: 5
On Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November, the French government took the liberty of
sending an SMS to a large number of residents of the country to promote its
TousAntiCovid application. ---- On Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November, the French
government took the liberty of sending an SMS to a large number of residents of
the country to promote its TousAntiCovid application. ---- The Libertarian
Communist Union reaffirms its firm opposition to the StopCovid registration
application, whatever its current name, and calls on everyone to refuse to
install this application, whatever the external pressures. To produce travel
certificates, all you have to do is go to the website of the Ministry of the
Interior or use the free application called Travel certificate. And to curb the
epidemic, the government would do better to give more resources to health
services [1].
The Libertarian Communist Union wonders about this new practice of political
propaganda SMS: should we now expect to receive SMS for each shaky government
project ? Will we receive an SMS to explain to us that police violence does not
exist and that the global security law is a good thing ? In 2022, will we receive
a message explaining to us that we must block Le Pen and that for that the only
solution is to " vote useful " for the outgoing president ? Can we unsubscribe
from this " service ", and if so how ?
Libertarian Communist Union, December 2, 2020[2]
Notes
[1] No to StopCovid, yes to real health measures, Union Communiste Libertaire,
April 28, 2020.
[2] Illustration Gee : https://framablog.org/2020/11/18/tousanticonneries/
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?TousAntiTousAntiCovid
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Message: 6
Testimony of the arrest and torture of our friend of the Belarusian anarchist
about whom we informed you. ---- On November 12, 2020, the Belarussian Ministry
of Interior issued an announcement of the arrest of anarchist blogger Mikola
Dziadok. The press service of the local department then stated that the detainee
"actively cooperates with the investigating authorities and issues confessions".
At the same time, it is clear from the record published together with the press
release of the police that Dziadok was severely beaten. He is now accused of
organizing events that grossly violate public order (section 342 of the Criminal
Code). The mediazone managed to get details about the detention of Mikola Dziadok
from a person who had the opportunity to talk to Mikola at the detention center
on Akrestsina Street.
A source, who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons, told Mediazona
that, according to Mikola Dziadok, security forces arrived at his rented
apartment in the town of Sosnova at about 11 pm on November 11: "They broke a
window. Seven people from the special police unit and men from the OMON (riot
police) broke in. "
"First they started beating him to get a computer password. Then they strangled
him with a pillow. He gave them a password as he began to lose his breath. He was
beaten for a long time. Until he remembered the password to the Telegram social
network, "he says.
Then Mikola lay on the floor for a while - the police did not let him lift his
head, but the blogger claimed that they were walking around the apartment. They
soon brought witnesses and searched the apartment. "He was immediately told to
remain silent in front of witnesses," says a Mediazony collaborator.
"During the inspection, they removed three bottles of tools from the alcove,
which were not originally in the apartment and which smelled strongly of
gasoline. The bottles were wrapped in a towel that was used in the kitchen,
"Mikola recalled in an interview with the source. Later, the Belarusian mass
media reported that Molotov cocktails (incendiary bottles) were found in Mikola's
apartment.
Lawyer Natalia Matskevich said Mikola Dziadok was beaten during the arrest. The
lawyer requested a forensic medical examination.
"I can say that I have worked with several clients who fled Chechnya after being
tortured and detained in Belarus for deportation. But I never thought that I
would meet such stories in our country, "said Matskevich. However, she did not
provide further details about the arrest of her client.
After the search, law enforcement officials told Mike that they would now record
a video. They pushed him into the pantry and released tear gas into it. "Then
they pulled him out and sprayed pepper gas directly into his eyes. They said that
if he didn't talk on video, he wouldn't let him wash his face. They took him into
the house, and they didn't let him wash until the video was done. "
It is clear from the record distributed by the press service of the Ministry of
the Interior that Mikol's eyes visibly tear. The video is available on the
spring96.org portal .
"All the while, they threatened to rape him and help him. They said they would
take him to the Gestapo or to the forest, "the source continues.
Around half past one, Mikol was taken in a minibus and taken to Minsk's GUBOPiK
(Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption) headquarters. The
blogger told a Mediazona co-worker that he had been left lying face down on the
floor and that he had spent four hours in that position.
"He was asked to provide them with passwords from VeraCrypt, from his hard drive,
to tell them who is the administrator of the various channels, especially those
anarchist such as Source and ABC Belarus (Anarchist Black Cross). When he was
silent, batons beat him in the back and legs, "says an anonymous source.
They threatened to rape him with a truncheon, hitting him on the hands and heels
with a stun gun; when he raised his head, they stepped on it - and it continued
until five o'clock.
"They took the bottles they allegedly found in the apartment and stuffed their
throats in his mouth. They forced him to spit on them, then wiped them. Then they
had him sign some papers, "said Mikol's witness.
Then the Fizls wanted the arrested anarchist to recite the text they had written
in front of the camera - they said that if he said something wrong, they would
beat him. If he says anything else about the cops or someone from GUBOPiK, they
take him out of the detention center and beat him again, even harder.
According to Mediazona source Mikola Dziadok does not know who mocked him - the
participants in the arrest and search did not introduce themselves and were
disguised. They "promised" that the anarchist would be given "seven or nine
years," and if he said anything about "them," he would be placed in the 'cockpit'
(a special Russian type of cell where prisoners can rape novices. Guards can use
the cell as punishment) and they will kill him there. "
Mikola Dziadok was taken to a detention center on Akrestsina Street on November
12 around five o'clock. He is now in custody.
If you would like to support Mikola, write to him!
Finally, we know the address where it is possible to send letters to our friend:
220030, Granddaughter Nikolaev Alexandrovich
Source:
They threatened to rape, said they would take me to the Gestapo or the forest
Czech translation originally published on abcnews.noblogs.org
Related links:
Freedom for Belarusian anarchists!
I don't regret
https://www.afed.cz/text/7263/vyhrozovali-mi-ze-me-znasilni-vezmou-me-na-gestapo-nebo-do-lesa
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Message: 7
ŽŽ Prison does not prevent anti-social acts from occurring; instead, it increases
its number. It doesn't improve those who will stop her. Refresh it as much as you
want, it will always be a deprivation of liberty, a fictitious means like the
convent, which makes the prisoner less and less of his own for life in society.
He doesn't get what he sets out to do. Stain the society. Must Disappear ŽŽ
(Piort Kropotkin - ŽŽ The Prisons ŽŽ) ---- ŽŽ That the fellows don't feel solxs.
People with whom they shared joys and sorrows, failures and victories are more
than ever alongside Ellxs. Fighting with stubborn fervor. Feeling more love and
more hate every day. That love and hatred with which, together, we will change
the world of foundation ŽŽ (John C. Mechoso - Anarchist Direct Action: A Story of
FAU ŽŽ)
1-More than a year has elapsed since the struggle overflowed the streets of
different cities in the territory dominated by the state of Chile, and since that
October the villages have maintained the struggle tirelessly. Despite repression,
pandemic and hunger, organizational and fighting will flourishes. We're in time
of fight and resistance in territories around the world; from Indigenous lxs in
Ecuador to France's proletarixs, peoples rise up against the system of domination.
This is why internationalism, that old practice of the oppressed class becomes
urgent, the word and solidarity action is a constitutive principle of these
struggles and it is what leads it to project on an emancipation horizon.
2-With living difficulties, the fighting communities at the point of barricades,
cacerolas and self-defense have exercised resistance in the territory dominated
by the state of Chile. This one has responded with bloody repression, thousands
and injuries, hundreds and hundreds mutilated, dozens of dead and dead and
thousands of prisoners and prey. All this done by his henchmen who defend their
class interests, precarious and attacking our lives, bodies and territories.
Not only have bullets and tear gas used against our class, but also severe
repressive laws, which, with the support of social democracy, have been
translated into the ŽŽ Antibarricated Law ", in the ŽŽ modernization ŽŽ of
repressive devices such as the National Agency Intelligence (ANI) and giving new
infrastructure to Special Forces to develop their state terrorism.
This repression as known falls only to our class, because when armed groups of
the dominant class are discovered with war weapons and combat equipment for the
state are just ŽŽ utensils ", while breaking a glass of a bank is terrorism for
the state and keeps you kidnapped for years for that action. Nowadays for our
classroom is danger of jail to come out with a spoon and a sign to scream for
social rights. Jail is a matter of class.
3-There are almost 2.500 and the colleagues who are now undergoing crude judicial
proceedings, proceedings that have been extended more than a year keeping
thousands behind bars, without any kind of conviction, using ŽŽ pretrial
detention ŽŽ As a legal derision to those who have fought alongside their class
in this year of social uprising (even ŽŽ underage ŽŽ). On the other hand, the few
convicts who exist face brutal sentences, from 11 to 20 years by the prosecutor's
office with a revenge intention is to punish those who have defied the system of
domination, who have dared to question the mercantilization and precariousness of
our lives.
As if the above were little, the prey of the social revolt has been kept in
isolation, torturing them in their everyday, preventing visitors or any other
prison benefit.
4-We call for active solidarity, to put the word and body for the freedom of our
and our prey, to organize days of protest for all territories in struggle to
achieve a GENERAL AMNINISTY AND NO CONDITIONS. Who forgets the prisoners and the
prisoners forgets the struggle, so achieving their freedom is an imperative for
struggling communities. We call for strengthening popular organizations, taking
the flag of the freedom of our and our colleagues, to make a concrete part of the
various activities and protest days that are being lifted.
5-Finally, the reality of political prison is not born on October 18, but is a
situation that has been given for decades. Historically the state has sought to
punish those who have fought for the breakdown of the class society, so we also
sympathize with the Mapuche political prisoners and revolutionize them, who fight
day by day to stand firm in prisons-corporations of the state of Chile ..
FREEDOM THE POLITICAL PRESIDENTS OF THE REVOLT
NO MORE PRESIDENTS AND PRESES TO FIGHT
GENERAL FRIENDSHIP AND NO CONDITIONS
REPORT OF REPRESSIVE LAWS
END TO THE ANTITERRORIST LAW
? Brazilian Anarchist Coordination - CAB
? Uruguayan Anarchist Federation - FAU
? Rosario Anarchist Federation - FAR (Argentina)
? Anarchist Organization of Cordoba - OAC (Argentina)
? Santiago Anarchist Federation - FAS (Chile)
? Libertarian Group Free Way (Colombia)
? Libertarian Communist Union (Francia)
? Embat - Libertarian Organization of Catalonia
? Libertarian alternative - AL / fdca (Italy)
? The Platform - Anarcha Communist Organization (Alemania)
? Revolutionary Anarchist Activity - DAF (Turquía)
? Libertarian Socialist Organisation - OSL (Suiza)
? Libertaere Aktion (Switzerland)
? Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group - MACG (Australia)
? Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement - AWSM (Aotearoa / Nueva Zelanda)
? Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front - ZACF (South Africa)
? Federation of Anarchism Era(Afghanistan and Iran)
? Workers Solidarity Movement - WSM (Irlanda)
? Anarchist Communist Group - ACG (Britain)
? Anarchist Federation (Grecia)
? Tekoshina Anarchist - TA, (Rojava - north east Syria)
? Anarchist organization of Tucuman (Argentina)
https://www.facebook.com/fau1956/posts/2807060646203995
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Message: 8
Mass demonstrations of protest against the policies of the neoliberal Macron
regime in the social sphere and in the field of "security" again engulfed France
on December 5. People took to the streets again in 90 cities of the country. In
Paris, Nantes and Marseille, performances escalated into heavy street battles
with the police, which many in the country have long perceived as an occupying
army. ---- The Saturday protests were originally planned by trade unions to fight
unemployment and social precarization, but ended in a joint protest for Social
Rights and Freedom and against the "Global Security" and "Police Violence" Act,
which turned into clashes and arson in Paris ...
Resistance, struggle, cries of anger ... "Yellow Vests" and demonstrators from a
variety of backgrounds continue to demonstrate in Paris and throughout France for
social rights and freedoms, against the "global security" law and the mainstream
media. The incidents took place in Paris, Dijon, Lyon, Nantes, Rennes. In Paris,
the "yellow vests" marched against the media that cooperate with the regime and
deliberately deceive the population. The demonstrators gathered at 14.30 at the
building of Radio France and passed the headquarters of TF1, CNews / C8 / C +,
BFMtv ..., ending at 17.30 at France Television.
Serious clashes occurred during a march in Paris organized by the coordination of
opponents of the "global security" bill. Thousands of people started a
demonstration at 14.15 from the Lille Gate, led by the "yellow vests". The
demonstrators headed for Republic Square. An hour and a half after the start of
the march, clashes began: the demonstrators, chanting "Everyone hates the
police", pelted the police with Molotov cocktails, stones, firelights and
firecrackers, beat the surveillance cameras; the police used tear gas and stun
grenades. At least 6 cars parked on Avenue Gambetta in the 20th arrondissement of
Paris were set on fire. Huge flames and clouds of black smoke rose over the
streets. Activists, dressed in black and forming mobile groups, beat the windows
of banks, supermarkets and real estate agencies. In the course of the movement,
the demonstrators periodically erected burning barricades
(https://blogs.mediapart.fr/ceinna-coll/blog/061220/gj-acte108-05122020-paris-devant-la-porte-des-medias;
https://ria.ru/20201205/pogrom-1587835343.html )
According to BFMTV, "400 to 500 rioters" took part in the Paris protest action.
By 6 pm the prefecture announced the arrest of 30 people; later the number
increased to 42. Plicia called on the demonstrators to disperse, but several
thousand people remained in the Republic Square, some of whom threw stones and
bottles at the guards of the capitalist order. The police used tear gas. About 7
pm the police began to force the protesters out of the square, and an hour later
the square was practically empty (rfi.fr/ru/???????/20201205-)
Demonstrations were also held in Bordeaux, Lille, Strasbourg and other cities (
https://russian.rt.com/world/article/810082-parizh-protest-besporyadki ). The
police seized at least 64 people. 8 police officers were injured (
https://russian.rt.com/world/news/810153-glava-mvd-franciya-protest )
https://aitrus.info/node/5600
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protests against the security law [machine translation]
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Message: 1
Pramen contacted a comrade, the anarchist Vlad M. after 30 days he spent in
prison and talked about the detention and interesting people who you can meet at
the administrative arrest. We didn't forget to ask him about his hunger strike,
as well as the situation with the coronavirus in prison. ---- Pramen: Vlad, hello
and welcome back! How are you?! ---- Vlad M: Hi! Thank you. I'm fine more or
less, in any case it could be much worse. ---- Pramen: Now, many principles of
anarchist organization are used by ordinary people to fight the regime. How does
this make Belarusian society anarchist and how important is decentralization in
the current protests?
Vlad: Well, these principles do not yet make Belarusian society anarchist even
close, but undoubtedly this movement is in the right direction and I like it.
Yes, now the protest is decentralized and it has no leader. There is no such
person who can be imprisoned and the protest will be immediately deflated.
Previously, everything was different: the authorities were preventively detaining
for example Statkevich or Severinets, people went out without knowing what to do,
and that was the end of it. Today, everything is different and repression of this
nature no longer works. Every protester is a leader, and for the protests to
stop, the authorities will have to put everyone away, which is impossible. I
think thanks to this very moment, the protests have been going on for 4 months now.
Pramen: Many liberals are already burying Lukashenko and believe that no matter
what happens today, Lukashenko will stop being president anyway. What do you
think about it?
Vlad: Lukashenko will stop being president anyway, it's indisputable. Today's
protest has somewhat reduced in scale, but there are reasonable explanations for
this, from the cold in the street to the covid epidemic. It would be naive to
expect that the number of protesters would increase with the cold weather, and a
large number of people fell ill at the same time. Very soon economic problems
will be added here, and then everybody will come out on the streets, including
those who have cold weather today.
Pramen: In the last few months you have been under administrative arrest for 45
days. You have never received these punishments right after the march - the
arrests were carried out by punitive officers from GUBOPiKa. What do you think is
the reason for such a high interest in you and other activists of the anarchist
movement?
Vlad: The interest in the anarchist movement for GUBOPiKa is due to the fact that
the anarchists remained essentially the only organized group on the streets. No
party, movement or organization today goes out to protest in an organized way,
because at one time they were defeated and their leaders were repressed.
Belarusians participating in protests either go out on their own or in small
groups of friends or colleagues. There is also the option of people coming out in
yards and districts, but these are still unfamiliar people who do not have a
certain level of trust among themselves and who may behave quite differently in
certain situations. It is much more difficult to divide and detain a group that
is close to each other, so the more such groups are on the streets, the harder it
will be for the pigs to strangle the protest. For them, the ideal option is the
complete absence of such groups, so in my opinion, that's why the anarchists are
given such close attention.
Pramen: Can you tell us a little about the last time the detention took place?
How were you found?
Vlad: We met a friend of ours, who was detained right at his workplace and
sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest. Several people approached the
detention centre itself, while others were waiting for them in a cafe. About an
hour after we all gathered for coffee and snacks, more than a dozen aggressive
masked individuals broke into the facility. They threw for a second some kind of
near-identification, in which it was simply impossible to see anything, and
offered to follow them. Obviously, those who met their comrade near the detention
facility were followed by outside surveillance, which led them to our common
meeting place.
Pramen: Was force applied to you during the detention? To other anarchists?
Vlad: This time no physical force was applied to me personally, only my hands
were forced behind my back and handcuffs were put on (which were then replaced by
plastic ties). Nevertheless, a comrade, who was re-arrested for another 15 days,
was beaten and gassed on the territory of the police station. For these actions,
the staff of the GUBOPIK specifically took him to the service car so that their
actions would not get on camera.
SIZO-6 Baranovichi
Pramen: After the first 15 days, you were held back. We heard that the Minsk
GUBOPIK officers had personally come to Baranovichi. Really? And if so, why such
attention to your group of detainees?
Vlad: Yes, I had a GUBOPIK employee present at the court, who had to come to the
court in person to testify against us. Apparently, in the pre-trial detention
center in Baranovichi for technical reasons there is no possibility to organize
the so-called courts by video communication, so the so-called judges have to go
from the court building to the territory of the pre-trial detention center, and
the pig, as we can see, was not even more lucky - he had to go on a business trip
to testify against the anarchists. It is worth noting that the words of this cop
were the only "evidence" of our "offenses". That is, without his presence, it
would have been difficult to condemn us, although I would not have been surprised
if his words had just been read off the paper, and the petition to question the
witness would have been denied...
Pramen: Who was sitting in the cell with you? What were you talking about with
your neighbors?
Vlad: Out of 30 days I spent the first 5 in Minsk on Okrestin, and the remaining
25 - in the detention center-6 in Baranovichi. There, as I understand it, all
100% of administrative detainees are political, so in any cell you can count on
good company. People are a cross-section of the whole society, representatives of
different ages (from 18 to 60) and different professions (from bricklayer to CEO,
from doctor to engineer, from miner to IT). Conversations, of course, are first
of all about protests and politics: who was detained, who was tried, who was
beaten, disputes about the date when the regime finally collapses, about the
effectiveness of sanctions, the adequacy of the Coordinating Council, and so on.
Due to information isolation, the detainees coming later than the others have to
tell about the news they have read in the last days before the detention while
the others were already sitting here. I remember especially how members of the
Belaruskali striking committee gave a lecture on potash mining and production,
with drawings and blueprints, everything as it should be.
Pramen: Coronavirus is raging in Belarus' prison system now. Can you tell us a
little bit about your detention conditions? Were there any patients in your cell?
How did the administration treat them?
Vlad: During the second part of my stay in the detention center in Baranovichi, a
real epidemic broke out. At first we found out that in the neighboring cell the
boy had a fever and bed regime (right in the cell, among healthy cellmates). In
3-4 days we moved to another building, and as a result, our cells were combined.
This guy felt normal already, but he completely lost his sense of smell. A few
more days later, having moved to a new cell, the guys asked us about our
well-being and told us that they had already gotten over it all. And also about
the fact that a few recently released people wrote to them in a letter that they
were doing covid tests, which all were positive. After 2 days I got a sore throat
and fever and after a while I also lost the sense of smell (which has not yet
recovered). Administration's attitude to this situation - the order to wear masks
when the cell door opens, go to shower and walk (once or twice a week instead of
daily) only with a mask. This is the end of all activities to combat covid. The
maximum temperature of the paramedic's non-contact thermometer, which he recorded
in my presence, was 36.8. In most cases, the readings do not even reach 36.0.
Pramen: After being re-arrested, you went on a hunger strike. Can you explain a
little why you decided to take such a radical step? How did the jailers and your
neighbors feel about it in the detention center itself?
Vlad: Being in detention, when you are constantly detained, you are tried in a
closed regime with a lot of procedural violations, when a pig testifies looking
you in the eye, and the judge easily makes a decision without absolutely no
evidence against you, it is difficult to do nothing. I found myself in a
situation where GUBOPIK had full control over my life, so I have only one tool
left in my arsenal to influence it. Therefore, as soon as the judge finished
reading the sentence, I immediately declared that I was on hunger strike in
protest against the unfair verdict of the court and in connection with political
persecution. Thus, it gave me back the feeling that I could influence my life and
death to some extent even while in detention. The jailers responded to this first
with complete disregard, and then with petty packets like sending a parcel that
came back to me to the addressee or refusing to accept letters for sending. Once
there were also threats of forced feeding. The neighbors treated me with respect
and support, for which I am very grateful to them. They constantly watched my
physical condition, even the neighboring cell asked me every morning how I was
feeling.
Pramen: How was the hunger strike for 15 days and what can you advise your
friends and colleagues who are thinking of taking the same measures?
Vlad: Not exactly 15 days, but only 12 days, because I declared a hunger strike
only in court, 3 days after my "second" detention. I would like to advise others
to take such a decision, at least in a balanced way, and not just on emotions,
because the test is more difficult than it seems at first sight. After refusing
to eat, being in prison becomes much more difficult: the feeling of hunger and
malaise do not allow you to concentrate on things that are great help to pass the
time (reading, for example). Because of this time lasts much longer, an order of
magnitude longer. Also do not expect any instant results from it, these results
are likely to be absent at all or hidden from you. If you decide to go on hunger
strike, it is worth talking about it as much as possible: a statement at the
court, the transfer of information to freedom, a written statement to the head of
the pre-trial detention facility about your hunger strike, to remind about it
during each check, before each meal and in general in any convenient case. On the
other hand, it is a great opportunity to test yourself for firmness and
willpower, but it is worth considering that this test can not be passed and thus
demoralize yourself.
Pramen: Have you received any letters or cards during the 30 days of detention?
How did the news reach your "home"?
Vlad: Yes, I got letters from some comrades, but at the moment I know that at
least a few letters/cards did not reach me. This is from the fact that the guys
themselves were wondering if their messages came. It is impossible to calculate
the total percentage of missed letters/postcards. All news were learned more from
people who were detained later. I heard about all the important events that
happened during my arrest while being there. Though, of course, these news came
to me with some delay.
Letters to prisoners
Pramen: All the prisoners are charged per day. Did you get a discount for the
days of hunger strike?
Vlad: An hour before the end of my arrest I was taken to a room, something like a
captress, showed a document on payment, where the full cost of "services" was
specified and asked if I would sign it despite the refusal to eat. The guard who
showed me the document did not know how events would develop if I refused to sign
it, but it was obvious that this would be an obstacle to my timely release. I
decided to put my signature under the document and an hour later was already
free. But even now I don't know if I did it right or not. In any case, I have not
made the payment yet.
Pramen: How do you feel now? Did you have any problems after 24 hours?
Vlad: As of today (the third day after my release) I feel much better, although I
still have a long way to go to full recovery. Every day the strength increases,
but I'm still on a hard diet. The process of getting out of hunger strike is no
less complicated and in terms of time it corresponds to the duration of the
hunger strike. Many vital organs have switched to another mode during this period
of time and now they need time to smoothly return to normal mode. In addition to
all this, the sense of smell has not yet returned.
Pramen: And finally - what would you like to say or wish your comrades on the
streets?
Vlad: I would like to say that we are on the right track and we are doing
everything right. Repression against us is another proof of this. We must not
give up or give up, everyone must continue doing what they do.
https://pramen.io/en/2020/12/interview-with-anarchist-vlad-m-after-30-days-of-arrest/
https://freedomnews.org.uk/belarus-interview-with-anarchist-vlad-m-after-30-days-of-arrest/
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Message: 2
Biden recently elected 46 th president of the United States and if we can rejoice
departure of Donald Trump, this electoral victory is not ours. Once again, it is
about a man of more than 50 years, white and bourgeois whose ideas are in no way
progressive. The sexual assault of which he is accused and his behavior towards
women do not make him an ally but a political opponent. ---- Joe Biden negotiated
a program with the Democratic left wing to keep her quiet during the campaign: a
little more redistribution, minimum wage, health insurance, green against global
warming, international cooperation. He is no longer hostile to the right to
abortion. Its vice-president is the first woman in this post, feminist and
supporter of minorities, she was nevertheless a repressive prosecutor.
Last spring, the media reported accusations of sexual assault that "embarrassed
the countryside." Among them, a former parliamentary assistant who accuses Biden
in 2019 of repeated touching and digital rape dating from 1993 when he was a
senator from Delaware. On several occasions, Tara Reade, the victim, tried to be
heard, without success. Worse - and yet so usual - she had been put in the closet
before being fired. Biden was able to continue his life without being worried and
had not, until last March, to comment on these accusations, since he was never
questioned about these facts.
If for Biden no trace exists, the San Luis Obispo Tribune nevertheless obtained a
document from the court dating back to 1996 in which there is mention of sexual
harassment at work by Joe Biden [1].
Reade is not the only one accusing Biden. Since the 1990s, at least seven women
have reported touching. His opponent during this campaign, Trump, is accused of
sexual harassment and abusive behavior by at least a dozen women. Biden received
the support of Trump who encouraged him to "fight", solidarity between aggressors
plays with (false) political conflicts.
Solidarity between aggressors
Qanon, Trump's fanatic conspiratorial group focused on baselessly attacking the
Democratic candidate in these elections by accusing him of pedophilia. And if,
many videos circulating on the web, indeed show an annoying Joe Biden as he is
tactile and directive with children and young adolescents, no complaint for
pedophilia or no accusation has been made against the new President. In any case
these accusations by the conspiratorial right did not aim to protect children,
worse, they participated in making invisible the words of the women who accuse Biden.
During his first campaign and from the start of his mandate, Donald Trump has
never ceased to attack women: three days after his inauguration, on January 23,
2017, he prohibited federal funding of any foreign non-governmental organization.
which supports, from near or far, the right to abortion throughout the world. If
Trump's presidency was not good news for women's rights as its relentless attacks
and gender-based assaults have punctuated her tenure, Biden's case also concerns us.
Faced with sexist aggressors who hold the reins of power, it is essential to
build a feminist and popular counter-power.
Christine (UCL Sarthe), Lucie (UCL Amiens) and Sarah (UCL Bordeaux)
Validate
[1]"Exclusive: 1996 court document confirms Tara Reade told of harassment in
Biden's office" , San Luis Obispo Tribune , May 7, 2020
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Elections-americaines-les-ennemis-de-nos-ennemis-ne-sont-pas-nos-amis
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Message: 3
While Johnson and Co have careened from one profit driven Covid-19 blunder to
another during the last nine months, from underequipping front line workers to
unnecessary deaths of older people in care homes, mutual aid networks have shown
that there is a practical alternative to capitalism and its uncaring nature.
Local mutual aid groups sprang up in March in response to the first lockdown,
proliferating across the country in following months. Some were initiated by
activists including anarchists, others by people with no experience of politics
or activism. ---- This explosion of grassroots activity has provided a real time
example of the innate tendency towards human solidarity described by Kropotkin in
Mutual Aid. At best, mutual aid groups have been exemplars of the maxim ‘from
each according to their ability to each according to their need', people in local
communities instinctively and voluntarily supporting each in diverse and mutually
beneficial ways. Perhaps not surprisingly however, a number were fairly quickly
taken over by controlling Labour Party councillors with stultifying
‘administrators managing WhatsApp groups, while some others have adopted a
traditional charitable approach of helping ‘the needy'. Anecdotal accounts also
suggest that involvement in mutual aid groups has decreased, with less people
active during the second lockdown.
But an impressive number of mutual aid groups continue to thrive, run by and for
people in local communities - from housing estates to rural towns. One such
group is to be found in Walthamstow, in northeast London. This is an area marked
by gentrification, hipster makeovers with social engineering brought about by
property developments, aided and abetted by the local Waltham Forest Labour
Council. The Walthamstow Hoe Street Ward Mutual Aid group is something of an
antidote to this, supporting those at the sharp end of the Covid-19 situation
continuously since the first lockdown in the spring. Creating a large network of
volunteers, on some levels it has roles very similar to many other mutual aid
groups - helping with tasks such as doing shopping or collecting medicines for
people unable to leave home. It has also built up an impressive volunteer
operation as part of a Waltham Forest-wide Food for the Forest initiative,
cooking and delivering meals for some 40 people within the ward. Alongside this a
weekly Food Stall provides a different model of organisation, a small but
inspiring example of genuine mutual aid in practice - of interest to anarchists
and activists elsewhere.
Our Food Stall started on The Drive, a local Council owned housing estate, in
April, providing fresh veg and fruit along with non-perishable items such as
tinned foods, pasta and rice. Open weekly, it's avowedly not a food bank - open
to all with no questions asked, no referrals needed and no stigma attached to
using it. As well as supplies from London-wide food sources such the Felix
Project (with the much appreciated help of the Hornbeam, a Walthamstow community
cafe) lots of donations have also been forthcoming from local community,
including allotment holders in the summer.
During the first lockdown it provided a lifeline for many tenants unable or
afraid to go to supermarkets or other shops and continues to do this, especially
for those who have lost jobs or are shielding. But it's not one way traffic, not
a case of well-meaning members of the community just helping those ‘less
fortunate': we have consciously strived not to perpetuate a ‘giver versus
recipient' model of operation. While started by a small group of mutual aid
activists, the Food Stall project involves and is run by residents who initially
came into contact coming to get food for themselves and their families. As well
as running the stall on Thursdays, volunteer residents are involved in driving
transport to pick up supplies, taking bagged up food to housebound households and
doing publicity. We now have some ten local residents regularly involved, a
diverse group reflecting the multi-cultural working class community in
Walthamstow. There is an incredibly friendly feel to the operation. It's become a
valuable social hub for those running or just using it in the time of covid
isolation. It's a great example of mutual aid in practice! Non-bureaucratic,
there are no ‘leaders', with group decisions taken at the stall, through an
accessible WhatsApp group, and outdoor meetings.
Its impact has been clear from feedback and conversations at the stall. In line
with our open access philosophy and unlike traditional food banks, we don't ask
for or require personal details. However we have kept some basic but impressive
statistics. An average of 25 plus people use the stall each week, with 104
households comprising 350 people since the end of May. Some people using the
stall have lost jobs, have health issues and struggle to make ends meet, while
for others it is their main social contact of the week. As Sunak's austerity
‘under another name' bites, we are absolutely sure that more people will start to
use it and become involved, and aim to remain open throughout the winter.
There is no community centre building on the estate, so we approached Housing
officers and the local Councillor with a request to use one of the many empty
garages on the estate as a physical storage space, but were told that the garages
can't be used for storage! So much for Labour Council community empowerment!
Instead we use a tenant's small pram shed to store non-perishable items and have
to ship in most supplies each week on the day of the stall.
The social solidarity aspect of the Food Stall has created the basis for further
initiatives in the future, with the possibility of the project evolving into a
Food Co-op mooted. There is interest in this, although we are not yet as advanced
as Cooperation Town community ventures elsewhere in London and further afield.
Meanwhile, the Food Stall project has been a small but great example of
self-organisation and Kropotkinesque mutual aid - a little seed of a possible
future society!
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/12/05/mutual-aid-in-action/
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Message: 4
Turin. Saturday 5th December. Companies * of the Turin Anarchist Federation
participated in the morning garrison in support of the struggle for the reopening
of Maria Adelaide, one of the city hospitals that have paid dearly for the
consequences of the numerous cuts in health care spending, as in the case of the
Waldensian and the many aids health wiped out by the same criminal policies
implemented by all national, regional and municipal governments that have
followed in recent years. While 72 million euros a day go inexorably to war
spending, thousands continue to risk their lives or die for lack of prevention
and adequate treatment, alarming evidence that, beyond any emergency rhetoric,
has represented the crude "normality" of the times we are going through,
Once the garrison on the long dora was completed, we moved collectively to piazza
Castello, in front of the Palazzo della Regione, where a garrison was foreseen in
opposition to the large useless and harmful works, in particular of the
Turin-Lyon railway line, 15 years after that that it was the revolt of Venaus, a
popular uprising capable of making an entire valley ungovernable and putting a
real halt to the advance of the deadly TAV project.
Always the same and very central Turin square was finally filled in the early
afternoon with banners, flags and various tools of the trade brought to the
square by the workers of entertainment and culture, hard hit by the social crisis
since the pandemic entered the scene in March.
They would like to force us to choose whether to starve or die of Covid. It is no
longer possible to stand by and watch. It is time to choose the rejection of this
forced choice. It's time to get organized and fight. Only the direct action of
male and female workers can lead to concrete achievements and stop once and for
all the infernal machine that places profit above the life and freedom of all!
Below is the text of the flyer distributed during these events:
"Our lives are worth more than their profits. Let's destroy state and capital!
Eight months after the start of the pandemic, nothing has been done to remedy the
criminal choices of governments over the past 30 years.
In 10 years, 43,000 healthcare jobs have been cut. In Italy, the number of beds
fell by 30 percent between 2000 and 2017.
The government fiddled with wheelchair benches and the bridge over the strait,
but did not allocate a euro to hire doctors, nurses, health assistants, to open
new departments, for prevention and treatment in the area.
Today health care is collapsing.
For those who can afford them, there are private clinics, prevention and
treatment. For others, life is more and more a lottery.
But fate never decides. Governments decide. They have chosen to finance
industries, military missions, Tav and major works. In 2020, about 26.3 billion
were allocated in military spending, one and a half billion more than in 2019.
In Turin they plan to transform the former Maria Adelaide hospital, one of the
many closed in Piedmont in recent years, into a luxury student residence. For
Covid patients, they set up a lazaret of camp tents in the same structure as the
Valentino where in June they deported the homeless evicted from the garrison in
front of the municipality.
Everywhere there are lines of poor, homeless, without income, precarious. To put
together lunch and dinner, many adapt to a myriad of precarious, underpaid, black
jobs, without protection.
If there is no money for rent and bills, health protection becomes a luxury that
few can afford.
The pandemic crisis has triggered an unprecedented social crisis, which here and
there erupts in moments of social revolt, where the sirens of populism,
nationalism, identity closure, denial of the pandemic sound loud.
The containment measures adopted in October by the government reduced many people
to starvation, without stopping the virus. A virus that will continue to run
until the logic of profit and war is more important than our lives.
The government has taken full powers and uses out of the ordinary tools. The
state of emergency has become permanent.
The government fears riots and donates a handful of money. If they are not
enough, the authoritarian turn experienced during the first wave of the pandemic
could open the door to further disciplinary tightening.
The devices put in place to target the undesirables, the excess bodies, the
subversives are no longer enough: Conte and his gang, step by step, are putting
the entire population under military control. The evening curfew is a gymnastics
of obedience to suppress any hint of social insurgency.
A society of care is a beautiful prospect, which nevertheless shatters in the
face of the tired revival of a pact between the state and subordinate classes,
which has neither the social strength to impose itself nor the ability to
re-construct a strong social imaginary. Especially in an era marked by the
constant renegotiation of the few protections that survived the fighting season
of the 1970s.
Delegating education, health, transport, conflict management, the choice of the
"common good" to the state has led to a slippery slope, which the pandemic crisis
has only accelerated.
The lives of the poor are empty to lose, worthless, expendable lives. Lives that
are not worth outside the cage of produce, consume, crack.
A real society of care is built by creating networks of solidarity and mutual
support, removing ourselves from the institution and acting on the conflict for
the expansion of the spaces of autonomy.
Changing the course is possible. With direct action, building non-state political
spaces, multiplying the experiences of self-management.
Our lives are not commodities. We fight against those who exploit us and command us!
A world without governments, masters, armies is possible and urgent. "
Turin Anarchist Federation
https://www.facebook.com/giacomo.ratto.7/posts/3732040823495644
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Message: 5
On Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November, the French government took the liberty of
sending an SMS to a large number of residents of the country to promote its
TousAntiCovid application. ---- On Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November, the French
government took the liberty of sending an SMS to a large number of residents of
the country to promote its TousAntiCovid application. ---- The Libertarian
Communist Union reaffirms its firm opposition to the StopCovid registration
application, whatever its current name, and calls on everyone to refuse to
install this application, whatever the external pressures. To produce travel
certificates, all you have to do is go to the website of the Ministry of the
Interior or use the free application called Travel certificate. And to curb the
epidemic, the government would do better to give more resources to health
services [1].
The Libertarian Communist Union wonders about this new practice of political
propaganda SMS: should we now expect to receive SMS for each shaky government
project ? Will we receive an SMS to explain to us that police violence does not
exist and that the global security law is a good thing ? In 2022, will we receive
a message explaining to us that we must block Le Pen and that for that the only
solution is to " vote useful " for the outgoing president ? Can we unsubscribe
from this " service ", and if so how ?
Libertarian Communist Union, December 2, 2020[2]
Notes
[1] No to StopCovid, yes to real health measures, Union Communiste Libertaire,
April 28, 2020.
[2] Illustration Gee : https://framablog.org/2020/11/18/tousanticonneries/
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?TousAntiTousAntiCovid
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Message: 6
Testimony of the arrest and torture of our friend of the Belarusian anarchist
about whom we informed you. ---- On November 12, 2020, the Belarussian Ministry
of Interior issued an announcement of the arrest of anarchist blogger Mikola
Dziadok. The press service of the local department then stated that the detainee
"actively cooperates with the investigating authorities and issues confessions".
At the same time, it is clear from the record published together with the press
release of the police that Dziadok was severely beaten. He is now accused of
organizing events that grossly violate public order (section 342 of the Criminal
Code). The mediazone managed to get details about the detention of Mikola Dziadok
from a person who had the opportunity to talk to Mikola at the detention center
on Akrestsina Street.
A source, who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons, told Mediazona
that, according to Mikola Dziadok, security forces arrived at his rented
apartment in the town of Sosnova at about 11 pm on November 11: "They broke a
window. Seven people from the special police unit and men from the OMON (riot
police) broke in. "
"First they started beating him to get a computer password. Then they strangled
him with a pillow. He gave them a password as he began to lose his breath. He was
beaten for a long time. Until he remembered the password to the Telegram social
network, "he says.
Then Mikola lay on the floor for a while - the police did not let him lift his
head, but the blogger claimed that they were walking around the apartment. They
soon brought witnesses and searched the apartment. "He was immediately told to
remain silent in front of witnesses," says a Mediazony collaborator.
"During the inspection, they removed three bottles of tools from the alcove,
which were not originally in the apartment and which smelled strongly of
gasoline. The bottles were wrapped in a towel that was used in the kitchen,
"Mikola recalled in an interview with the source. Later, the Belarusian mass
media reported that Molotov cocktails (incendiary bottles) were found in Mikola's
apartment.
Lawyer Natalia Matskevich said Mikola Dziadok was beaten during the arrest. The
lawyer requested a forensic medical examination.
"I can say that I have worked with several clients who fled Chechnya after being
tortured and detained in Belarus for deportation. But I never thought that I
would meet such stories in our country, "said Matskevich. However, she did not
provide further details about the arrest of her client.
After the search, law enforcement officials told Mike that they would now record
a video. They pushed him into the pantry and released tear gas into it. "Then
they pulled him out and sprayed pepper gas directly into his eyes. They said that
if he didn't talk on video, he wouldn't let him wash his face. They took him into
the house, and they didn't let him wash until the video was done. "
It is clear from the record distributed by the press service of the Ministry of
the Interior that Mikol's eyes visibly tear. The video is available on the
spring96.org portal .
"All the while, they threatened to rape him and help him. They said they would
take him to the Gestapo or to the forest, "the source continues.
Around half past one, Mikol was taken in a minibus and taken to Minsk's GUBOPiK
(Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption) headquarters. The
blogger told a Mediazona co-worker that he had been left lying face down on the
floor and that he had spent four hours in that position.
"He was asked to provide them with passwords from VeraCrypt, from his hard drive,
to tell them who is the administrator of the various channels, especially those
anarchist such as Source and ABC Belarus (Anarchist Black Cross). When he was
silent, batons beat him in the back and legs, "says an anonymous source.
They threatened to rape him with a truncheon, hitting him on the hands and heels
with a stun gun; when he raised his head, they stepped on it - and it continued
until five o'clock.
"They took the bottles they allegedly found in the apartment and stuffed their
throats in his mouth. They forced him to spit on them, then wiped them. Then they
had him sign some papers, "said Mikol's witness.
Then the Fizls wanted the arrested anarchist to recite the text they had written
in front of the camera - they said that if he said something wrong, they would
beat him. If he says anything else about the cops or someone from GUBOPiK, they
take him out of the detention center and beat him again, even harder.
According to Mediazona source Mikola Dziadok does not know who mocked him - the
participants in the arrest and search did not introduce themselves and were
disguised. They "promised" that the anarchist would be given "seven or nine
years," and if he said anything about "them," he would be placed in the 'cockpit'
(a special Russian type of cell where prisoners can rape novices. Guards can use
the cell as punishment) and they will kill him there. "
Mikola Dziadok was taken to a detention center on Akrestsina Street on November
12 around five o'clock. He is now in custody.
If you would like to support Mikola, write to him!
Finally, we know the address where it is possible to send letters to our friend:
220030, Granddaughter Nikolaev Alexandrovich
Source:
They threatened to rape, said they would take me to the Gestapo or the forest
Czech translation originally published on abcnews.noblogs.org
Related links:
Freedom for Belarusian anarchists!
I don't regret
https://www.afed.cz/text/7263/vyhrozovali-mi-ze-me-znasilni-vezmou-me-na-gestapo-nebo-do-lesa
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Message: 7
ŽŽ Prison does not prevent anti-social acts from occurring; instead, it increases
its number. It doesn't improve those who will stop her. Refresh it as much as you
want, it will always be a deprivation of liberty, a fictitious means like the
convent, which makes the prisoner less and less of his own for life in society.
He doesn't get what he sets out to do. Stain the society. Must Disappear ŽŽ
(Piort Kropotkin - ŽŽ The Prisons ŽŽ) ---- ŽŽ That the fellows don't feel solxs.
People with whom they shared joys and sorrows, failures and victories are more
than ever alongside Ellxs. Fighting with stubborn fervor. Feeling more love and
more hate every day. That love and hatred with which, together, we will change
the world of foundation ŽŽ (John C. Mechoso - Anarchist Direct Action: A Story of
FAU ŽŽ)
1-More than a year has elapsed since the struggle overflowed the streets of
different cities in the territory dominated by the state of Chile, and since that
October the villages have maintained the struggle tirelessly. Despite repression,
pandemic and hunger, organizational and fighting will flourishes. We're in time
of fight and resistance in territories around the world; from Indigenous lxs in
Ecuador to France's proletarixs, peoples rise up against the system of domination.
This is why internationalism, that old practice of the oppressed class becomes
urgent, the word and solidarity action is a constitutive principle of these
struggles and it is what leads it to project on an emancipation horizon.
2-With living difficulties, the fighting communities at the point of barricades,
cacerolas and self-defense have exercised resistance in the territory dominated
by the state of Chile. This one has responded with bloody repression, thousands
and injuries, hundreds and hundreds mutilated, dozens of dead and dead and
thousands of prisoners and prey. All this done by his henchmen who defend their
class interests, precarious and attacking our lives, bodies and territories.
Not only have bullets and tear gas used against our class, but also severe
repressive laws, which, with the support of social democracy, have been
translated into the ŽŽ Antibarricated Law ", in the ŽŽ modernization ŽŽ of
repressive devices such as the National Agency Intelligence (ANI) and giving new
infrastructure to Special Forces to develop their state terrorism.
This repression as known falls only to our class, because when armed groups of
the dominant class are discovered with war weapons and combat equipment for the
state are just ŽŽ utensils ", while breaking a glass of a bank is terrorism for
the state and keeps you kidnapped for years for that action. Nowadays for our
classroom is danger of jail to come out with a spoon and a sign to scream for
social rights. Jail is a matter of class.
3-There are almost 2.500 and the colleagues who are now undergoing crude judicial
proceedings, proceedings that have been extended more than a year keeping
thousands behind bars, without any kind of conviction, using ŽŽ pretrial
detention ŽŽ As a legal derision to those who have fought alongside their class
in this year of social uprising (even ŽŽ underage ŽŽ). On the other hand, the few
convicts who exist face brutal sentences, from 11 to 20 years by the prosecutor's
office with a revenge intention is to punish those who have defied the system of
domination, who have dared to question the mercantilization and precariousness of
our lives.
As if the above were little, the prey of the social revolt has been kept in
isolation, torturing them in their everyday, preventing visitors or any other
prison benefit.
4-We call for active solidarity, to put the word and body for the freedom of our
and our prey, to organize days of protest for all territories in struggle to
achieve a GENERAL AMNINISTY AND NO CONDITIONS. Who forgets the prisoners and the
prisoners forgets the struggle, so achieving their freedom is an imperative for
struggling communities. We call for strengthening popular organizations, taking
the flag of the freedom of our and our colleagues, to make a concrete part of the
various activities and protest days that are being lifted.
5-Finally, the reality of political prison is not born on October 18, but is a
situation that has been given for decades. Historically the state has sought to
punish those who have fought for the breakdown of the class society, so we also
sympathize with the Mapuche political prisoners and revolutionize them, who fight
day by day to stand firm in prisons-corporations of the state of Chile ..
FREEDOM THE POLITICAL PRESIDENTS OF THE REVOLT
NO MORE PRESIDENTS AND PRESES TO FIGHT
GENERAL FRIENDSHIP AND NO CONDITIONS
REPORT OF REPRESSIVE LAWS
END TO THE ANTITERRORIST LAW
? Brazilian Anarchist Coordination - CAB
? Uruguayan Anarchist Federation - FAU
? Rosario Anarchist Federation - FAR (Argentina)
? Anarchist Organization of Cordoba - OAC (Argentina)
? Santiago Anarchist Federation - FAS (Chile)
? Libertarian Group Free Way (Colombia)
? Libertarian Communist Union (Francia)
? Embat - Libertarian Organization of Catalonia
? Libertarian alternative - AL / fdca (Italy)
? The Platform - Anarcha Communist Organization (Alemania)
? Revolutionary Anarchist Activity - DAF (Turquía)
? Libertarian Socialist Organisation - OSL (Suiza)
? Libertaere Aktion (Switzerland)
? Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group - MACG (Australia)
? Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement - AWSM (Aotearoa / Nueva Zelanda)
? Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front - ZACF (South Africa)
? Federation of Anarchism Era(Afghanistan and Iran)
? Workers Solidarity Movement - WSM (Irlanda)
? Anarchist Communist Group - ACG (Britain)
? Anarchist Federation (Grecia)
? Tekoshina Anarchist - TA, (Rojava - north east Syria)
? Anarchist organization of Tucuman (Argentina)
https://www.facebook.com/fau1956/posts/2807060646203995
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Message: 8
Mass demonstrations of protest against the policies of the neoliberal Macron
regime in the social sphere and in the field of "security" again engulfed France
on December 5. People took to the streets again in 90 cities of the country. In
Paris, Nantes and Marseille, performances escalated into heavy street battles
with the police, which many in the country have long perceived as an occupying
army. ---- The Saturday protests were originally planned by trade unions to fight
unemployment and social precarization, but ended in a joint protest for Social
Rights and Freedom and against the "Global Security" and "Police Violence" Act,
which turned into clashes and arson in Paris ...
Resistance, struggle, cries of anger ... "Yellow Vests" and demonstrators from a
variety of backgrounds continue to demonstrate in Paris and throughout France for
social rights and freedoms, against the "global security" law and the mainstream
media. The incidents took place in Paris, Dijon, Lyon, Nantes, Rennes. In Paris,
the "yellow vests" marched against the media that cooperate with the regime and
deliberately deceive the population. The demonstrators gathered at 14.30 at the
building of Radio France and passed the headquarters of TF1, CNews / C8 / C +,
BFMtv ..., ending at 17.30 at France Television.
Serious clashes occurred during a march in Paris organized by the coordination of
opponents of the "global security" bill. Thousands of people started a
demonstration at 14.15 from the Lille Gate, led by the "yellow vests". The
demonstrators headed for Republic Square. An hour and a half after the start of
the march, clashes began: the demonstrators, chanting "Everyone hates the
police", pelted the police with Molotov cocktails, stones, firelights and
firecrackers, beat the surveillance cameras; the police used tear gas and stun
grenades. At least 6 cars parked on Avenue Gambetta in the 20th arrondissement of
Paris were set on fire. Huge flames and clouds of black smoke rose over the
streets. Activists, dressed in black and forming mobile groups, beat the windows
of banks, supermarkets and real estate agencies. In the course of the movement,
the demonstrators periodically erected burning barricades
(https://blogs.mediapart.fr/ceinna-coll/blog/061220/gj-acte108-05122020-paris-devant-la-porte-des-medias;
https://ria.ru/20201205/pogrom-1587835343.html )
According to BFMTV, "400 to 500 rioters" took part in the Paris protest action.
By 6 pm the prefecture announced the arrest of 30 people; later the number
increased to 42. Plicia called on the demonstrators to disperse, but several
thousand people remained in the Republic Square, some of whom threw stones and
bottles at the guards of the capitalist order. The police used tear gas. About 7
pm the police began to force the protesters out of the square, and an hour later
the square was practically empty (rfi.fr/ru/???????/20201205-)
Demonstrations were also held in Bordeaux, Lille, Strasbourg and other cities (
https://russian.rt.com/world/article/810082-parizh-protest-besporyadki ). The
police seized at least 64 people. 8 police officers were injured (
https://russian.rt.com/world/news/810153-glava-mvd-franciya-protest )
https://aitrus.info/node/5600
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