Today's Topics:
1. Holand, vrije bond: Presentation of "Precaristas"
documentary, Residential Struggle in the Canary Islands (nl)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
documentary, Residential Struggle in the Canary Islands (nl)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, UCL - We want resources, not Xanax (ca, de, it, fr,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, UCL AL #312- Ecology, Poitou: The war of the basins
is raging (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
is raging (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Czech, AFED: Mobilization of workers against deportation -
No one is illegal. machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
No one is illegal. machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Te Kaupapa Papori - Communalism Aotearoa: Climate Justice -
a movement for radical change (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
After some weeks of work, we are happy to announce the availability of the
documentary "Precaristas" with (English subtitles). This documentary from 2018
and recorded by "Inercia Docs" explores the housing struggle in the Canary
Islands. Our expectations is to arrange an info night for this documentary at the
moment is possible again. Such thing does not seem possible at this moment due to
the current corona situation. So, for the time being, we are releasing this
material in the hope of providing some meaningful counter-cultural material to
watch and think about while this lock-down keeps us trapped at home.
The synopsis of the documentary:
"A documentary about the struggle of the Anarchist Federation and the Tenant
Union of Gran Canaria. One of the pioneering experiences of the state. The first
of the many self-organized unions that are born from below, in neighborhoods and
towns throughout the state, from the struggle for access to housing, stopping
evictions, with massive squats, relocation of families or on farms acquired
through cessions semi-informal with property (hence the term precarious). But
always defended with the neighborhood union action. Anarchist housing experiments
that have responded to the limited role of island administrations, trying to
unite and expand a popular movement through the coverage of basic needs. With a
hybrid audiovisual language, between the journalistic, documentary and
experimental genres, the central story is constructed through an intimate
approach to families and is complemented by voices from different political,
business, academic and legal actors on the island. In the narrative there is also
room for an incursion into the tourist dimension of Gran Canaria (34% of GDP),
exploring the impact and relationship that this economic monoculture has on
housing. A self-managed documentary that has had the collaboration of
communication collectives such as La Directa or Bauma and with a soundtrack by
artists such as Silvia Tomas Trio, the rap group Resiliencia and the DJs Mash
Masters"
The link: https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/21e32246-2afa-42d9-a70a-c5d16c7cc9ba
https://www.vrijebond.org/presentatie-van-precaristas-documantaire-woonstrijd-op-de-canarische-eilanden/
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Message: 2
Insufficient health conditions, excessive workload, stress, precariousness, poor
working conditions: the situation of students * and high school students * during
the COVID pandemic is not improving, quite the contrary, and we continue to be
abandoned * es to precariousness and psychological distress. ---- In face-to-face
high school or in distance education, the calculations are not good. ---- In high
schools, crowded corridors, long queues at the cafeteria, more than 30 students
per class and the lack of hydroalcoholic gel are the norm. It is also because the
universities do not have sufficient reception capacity that we had to close them.
These inadequate conditions are directly linked to the lack of resources in the
public education service caused by the liberal policies of the last decades.
Student insecurity and psychological distress: the cup is full
With the crisis, many have fallen into precariousness following the loss of their
student job, and the conditions of distance study weigh on our mental health .
The bac pro students have difficulties or cannot find an internship, which
endangers the pursuit of their studies . At the same time Vidal and Blanquer
maintain bac and partials in indecent conditions: dense programs maintained,
computer problems at a distance, overcrowded face-to-face rooms, last-minute
changes ... Result: 1 in 5 students have stopped their studies and as many have
thought about suicide . Some have even taken action, like two comrades from Lyon
recently, who have or have tried to defeat themselves.
Research Programming Law: Casse of the public service of higher education.
While we would need help and listening Vidal takes advantage of the closure of
universities to pass the worst laws against the public college . On the program:
generalization of precarious contracts, reduction of positions, clientelist
funding of research, increased competition between establishments... The
criminalization of our movements is also on the agenda. The law thus provides for
penalizing up to 3 years of imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros for entering
a university with the intention of "disturbing the good order of the establishment".
Let's respond for our future.
The situation has clearly shown that we should not expect anything from our
leaders and that we must mobilize.
We therefore call on massively joining the mobilization of January 26 with
education personnel, but also the strike of February 4, which brings together all
the anger. Our watchwords must be: a massive investment of resources in the
public education service, validation of the bac and all exams, a real health
protocol, the abrogation of the Research Programming Act.
It is by organizing ourselves collectively and in self-management that we will be
able to win. We do not want to be the sacrificed generation, for our future:
response from the youth !
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?ON-VEUT-DES-MOYENS-PAS-DU-XANAX
------------------------------
Message: 3
With global warming and the drying up of land, water is becoming an increasingly
coveted strategic resource. Around the Poitevin marsh, a battle has been opposing
for several years a citizen collective to actors of productivist agriculture
around a surface water storage project. ---- Substitution reserves, more commonly
known as "basins", are large artificial basins which are filled by pumping water
from the groundwater in winter with the aim of using it in summer, when water is
lacking, to irrigate crops. . The first of them were built in Charente-Maritime
and Vendée at the end of the 2000s, on an experimental basis. Following results
deemed conclusive by the promoters themselves, a new project of 19 basins was
started in the Deux-Sèvres department in 2017. About forty should also see the
light of day in Vienne by 2022. But these basins pose many problems.
The beneficiaries of the basins are actors in the agro-industry practicing the
monoculture of corn, a cereal requiring a lot of water but with very high rates
of return and profit. The corn is then exported abroad to feed factory farm
animals. It is therefore not a question of saving peasant agriculture that feeds
local populations.
This productivist agriculture is harmful to the environment because the massive
pumping of water in winter weakens the water tables and ultimately contributes to
the drying up of soils, rivers and wetlands, endangering many ecosystems. It is a
vicious circle which must be overcome by questioning the entire agricultural model.
In addition, these basins benefit from significant public funding (around 70%)
while their aim is to guarantee the profits of a handful of large farmers. Small
producers who favor crops adapted to the regions and an agriculture that respects
the environment can only dream of such financial support ...
The resistance is organizing
Faced with this water grabbing and these eco-friendly projects, a resistance
movement was born in 2017 with the creation of the citizen collective "Bassines
Non Merci". Supported by numerous associations, unions and political
organizations, this collective is leading the battle on the legal and media
front. On October 11, more than 2,500 people demonstrated in Épannes in
opposition to the basins.
The mobilization seems to be bearing fruit since the regional council of New
Aquitaine, initially favorable to the basins, voted on December 4 against the
financing of the basins. However, we must not proclaim victory because the State,
infallible ally of the capitalists, already seems to take over to ensure the
financing of this project massively contested by the population and local elected
officials. The fight therefore continues for another model of agriculture and
collective management of water, a crucial fight for our future.
Benjamin (UCL Poitiers)
https://unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Poitou-La-guerre-des-bassines-fait-rage
------------------------------
Message: 4
Examples of successful struggles for colleagues in the workplace. ---- In France,
workers have been successfully mobilized in two cases since the beginning of the
year in a situation where the authorities wanted to deport their colleagues
without the right of residence. The co-workers faced the absurd decision that
young colleagues should return to their country, even though they were socially
and professionally integrated. ---- A baker from Besançon moved the public after
a hunger strike to defend his assistant from Guinea, who, as a 16-year-old
orphan, reached France on a dangerous journey through Libya, the Mediterranean
and Italy. Laye Fodé Traoréiné has been working for bakers for a year and a half,
getting up at three in the morning every day and clearly demonstrating her
abilities. After a week of hunger strike and a petition with nearly a quarter of
a million signatures, the authorities abandoned the deportation plan and granted
the right of residence.
In Normandy, the entire workforce of the electrical engineering company stood up
for its colleague from Côte d'Ivoire, who has been working with them for two and
a half years. He came to France at the age of 15 and became a popular colleague
in the company where he is an apprentice. The workers and the owner created a
photo with the banner "Give us back Amadou!" And launched a petition that
collected around 40,000 signatures. They were able to celebrate victory last week
when the authorities issued a residence permit to Amadou.
It is clear that there are different people among the migrants, but they are
certainly not a dark dangerous crowd, as politicians from the SPD, Tricolors and
ODS like to describe them. These are people who often have war and poverty behind
them and who want a "normal" life. When they have the opportunity to integrate,
they like to do it. Through our solidarity, we can help them and protect them
from the absurd and inhuman "Fortress Europe".
Solidarity is our weapon!
https://www.afed.cz/text/7286/mobilizace-delniku-proti-deportaci
------------------------------
Message: 5
Those of us in the movement for climate justice have for many years advocated for
systematic and radical changes to our economy and society to avert the threat of
climate chaos. For decades, scientists have warned us about the implications of
sea-level rise, droughts and super-storms to the point that we are now finding
ourselves in earth's sixth mass extinction event. While our movement against
further fossil fuel extraction, the destruction of forests and the growing
economic disparities within society has grown in recent years, we are still
largely dealing with governments and corporations who remain part of the problem
and are unwilling to shift.
1. COVID19 - an outpouring of solidarity and mutual aid
The last few months has seen the spread of COVID19 to all corners of our planet.
A virus with no cure is killing and infecting thousands. Communities, iwi,
councils and governments are rising up to the challenge to contain the virus. We
are witnessing an outpouring of love, solidarity and mutual aid in the community
and governments are taking drastic measures to protect the vulnerable in our
society. The climate movement has nothing but admiration for how we are
responding collectively and decisively.
2. Not going back to ‘normality'
Governments across the globe have pledged economic stimulus packages to support
workers and companies who are facing the brunt of virus. In Aotearoa, this
includes the tourism industry, which has more or less collapsed with entry
restrictions; the hospitality sector; musicians and artists; and will also have
long-term serious implications on the agricultural industry.
Government intervention is a must in these difficult times. But let's be clear -
the last thing we want is to return to ‘normality'.
Let's just dissect ‘normality' for a few sentences. Is it normal that the current
rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than
natural background rates? Is it normal that the past hundred years have seen
global temperatures rise by over 1 degrees due to human activity? Is it normal
that the world's 26 richest people own as much wealth as poorest 50% together?
No. no and no.
There is no going back to normality because normality is destroying our planet
and our lives. So the last thing we should be doing right now is to collectivise
the losses of companies that have been destroying this planet for decades.
3. Survive the pandemic - but extinct by the end of the millennia?
Surviving this pandemic is a priority. It has to be. It is a matter of survival,
particularly for poor, indigenous and marginalised communities. But let's
intervene in the economy so that we not only get through the pandemic, but so
that we also get through this millennia.
4. Capitalism is not our future
Capitalism is a relatively new economic model. For thousands of years, humans
have lived in relative harmony with each other and the environment in tribal
communities. Yes, there were rough times. Yes, there was war. But the presence of
war, environmental degradation, disease and inequality with our current model is
unprecedented. Capitalism is the root cause of the climate crisis. The
never-ending concentration of economic and political power in the hands of a few
at the expense of everyone else is bringing misery and hardship on a massive
scale. We have to move on. We have to admit that capitalism was a bad mistake,
learn from our mistakes and find collective solutions.
5. Solutions are beautiful - and they are everywhere
While the current pandemic has shown us the fragility of our own existence, it
has also demonstrated that human nature is ultimately caring, kind and follows
the maxim of ‘one for all, and all for one'. Values like solidarity and mutual
aid - values that are so antithetical to the capitalist paradigm - run so
strongly in our communities.
While many of us are involved on a day-to-day basis defending and expanding
communal spaces and ideas as solutions to the climate crisis, we must be vocal
now that we collectively seize this moment to move away and leave behind the age
of capitalism, the age of plastic, the age of human domination over nature.
https://communalism.noblogs.org/post/2020/04/24/climate-justice-a-movement-for-radical-change/
------------------------------
a movement for radical change (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
After some weeks of work, we are happy to announce the availability of the
documentary "Precaristas" with (English subtitles). This documentary from 2018
and recorded by "Inercia Docs" explores the housing struggle in the Canary
Islands. Our expectations is to arrange an info night for this documentary at the
moment is possible again. Such thing does not seem possible at this moment due to
the current corona situation. So, for the time being, we are releasing this
material in the hope of providing some meaningful counter-cultural material to
watch and think about while this lock-down keeps us trapped at home.
The synopsis of the documentary:
"A documentary about the struggle of the Anarchist Federation and the Tenant
Union of Gran Canaria. One of the pioneering experiences of the state. The first
of the many self-organized unions that are born from below, in neighborhoods and
towns throughout the state, from the struggle for access to housing, stopping
evictions, with massive squats, relocation of families or on farms acquired
through cessions semi-informal with property (hence the term precarious). But
always defended with the neighborhood union action. Anarchist housing experiments
that have responded to the limited role of island administrations, trying to
unite and expand a popular movement through the coverage of basic needs. With a
hybrid audiovisual language, between the journalistic, documentary and
experimental genres, the central story is constructed through an intimate
approach to families and is complemented by voices from different political,
business, academic and legal actors on the island. In the narrative there is also
room for an incursion into the tourist dimension of Gran Canaria (34% of GDP),
exploring the impact and relationship that this economic monoculture has on
housing. A self-managed documentary that has had the collaboration of
communication collectives such as La Directa or Bauma and with a soundtrack by
artists such as Silvia Tomas Trio, the rap group Resiliencia and the DJs Mash
Masters"
The link: https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/21e32246-2afa-42d9-a70a-c5d16c7cc9ba
https://www.vrijebond.org/presentatie-van-precaristas-documantaire-woonstrijd-op-de-canarische-eilanden/
------------------------------
Message: 2
Insufficient health conditions, excessive workload, stress, precariousness, poor
working conditions: the situation of students * and high school students * during
the COVID pandemic is not improving, quite the contrary, and we continue to be
abandoned * es to precariousness and psychological distress. ---- In face-to-face
high school or in distance education, the calculations are not good. ---- In high
schools, crowded corridors, long queues at the cafeteria, more than 30 students
per class and the lack of hydroalcoholic gel are the norm. It is also because the
universities do not have sufficient reception capacity that we had to close them.
These inadequate conditions are directly linked to the lack of resources in the
public education service caused by the liberal policies of the last decades.
Student insecurity and psychological distress: the cup is full
With the crisis, many have fallen into precariousness following the loss of their
student job, and the conditions of distance study weigh on our mental health .
The bac pro students have difficulties or cannot find an internship, which
endangers the pursuit of their studies . At the same time Vidal and Blanquer
maintain bac and partials in indecent conditions: dense programs maintained,
computer problems at a distance, overcrowded face-to-face rooms, last-minute
changes ... Result: 1 in 5 students have stopped their studies and as many have
thought about suicide . Some have even taken action, like two comrades from Lyon
recently, who have or have tried to defeat themselves.
Research Programming Law: Casse of the public service of higher education.
While we would need help and listening Vidal takes advantage of the closure of
universities to pass the worst laws against the public college . On the program:
generalization of precarious contracts, reduction of positions, clientelist
funding of research, increased competition between establishments... The
criminalization of our movements is also on the agenda. The law thus provides for
penalizing up to 3 years of imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros for entering
a university with the intention of "disturbing the good order of the establishment".
Let's respond for our future.
The situation has clearly shown that we should not expect anything from our
leaders and that we must mobilize.
We therefore call on massively joining the mobilization of January 26 with
education personnel, but also the strike of February 4, which brings together all
the anger. Our watchwords must be: a massive investment of resources in the
public education service, validation of the bac and all exams, a real health
protocol, the abrogation of the Research Programming Act.
It is by organizing ourselves collectively and in self-management that we will be
able to win. We do not want to be the sacrificed generation, for our future:
response from the youth !
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?ON-VEUT-DES-MOYENS-PAS-DU-XANAX
------------------------------
Message: 3
With global warming and the drying up of land, water is becoming an increasingly
coveted strategic resource. Around the Poitevin marsh, a battle has been opposing
for several years a citizen collective to actors of productivist agriculture
around a surface water storage project. ---- Substitution reserves, more commonly
known as "basins", are large artificial basins which are filled by pumping water
from the groundwater in winter with the aim of using it in summer, when water is
lacking, to irrigate crops. . The first of them were built in Charente-Maritime
and Vendée at the end of the 2000s, on an experimental basis. Following results
deemed conclusive by the promoters themselves, a new project of 19 basins was
started in the Deux-Sèvres department in 2017. About forty should also see the
light of day in Vienne by 2022. But these basins pose many problems.
The beneficiaries of the basins are actors in the agro-industry practicing the
monoculture of corn, a cereal requiring a lot of water but with very high rates
of return and profit. The corn is then exported abroad to feed factory farm
animals. It is therefore not a question of saving peasant agriculture that feeds
local populations.
This productivist agriculture is harmful to the environment because the massive
pumping of water in winter weakens the water tables and ultimately contributes to
the drying up of soils, rivers and wetlands, endangering many ecosystems. It is a
vicious circle which must be overcome by questioning the entire agricultural model.
In addition, these basins benefit from significant public funding (around 70%)
while their aim is to guarantee the profits of a handful of large farmers. Small
producers who favor crops adapted to the regions and an agriculture that respects
the environment can only dream of such financial support ...
The resistance is organizing
Faced with this water grabbing and these eco-friendly projects, a resistance
movement was born in 2017 with the creation of the citizen collective "Bassines
Non Merci". Supported by numerous associations, unions and political
organizations, this collective is leading the battle on the legal and media
front. On October 11, more than 2,500 people demonstrated in Épannes in
opposition to the basins.
The mobilization seems to be bearing fruit since the regional council of New
Aquitaine, initially favorable to the basins, voted on December 4 against the
financing of the basins. However, we must not proclaim victory because the State,
infallible ally of the capitalists, already seems to take over to ensure the
financing of this project massively contested by the population and local elected
officials. The fight therefore continues for another model of agriculture and
collective management of water, a crucial fight for our future.
Benjamin (UCL Poitiers)
https://unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Poitou-La-guerre-des-bassines-fait-rage
------------------------------
Message: 4
Examples of successful struggles for colleagues in the workplace. ---- In France,
workers have been successfully mobilized in two cases since the beginning of the
year in a situation where the authorities wanted to deport their colleagues
without the right of residence. The co-workers faced the absurd decision that
young colleagues should return to their country, even though they were socially
and professionally integrated. ---- A baker from Besançon moved the public after
a hunger strike to defend his assistant from Guinea, who, as a 16-year-old
orphan, reached France on a dangerous journey through Libya, the Mediterranean
and Italy. Laye Fodé Traoréiné has been working for bakers for a year and a half,
getting up at three in the morning every day and clearly demonstrating her
abilities. After a week of hunger strike and a petition with nearly a quarter of
a million signatures, the authorities abandoned the deportation plan and granted
the right of residence.
In Normandy, the entire workforce of the electrical engineering company stood up
for its colleague from Côte d'Ivoire, who has been working with them for two and
a half years. He came to France at the age of 15 and became a popular colleague
in the company where he is an apprentice. The workers and the owner created a
photo with the banner "Give us back Amadou!" And launched a petition that
collected around 40,000 signatures. They were able to celebrate victory last week
when the authorities issued a residence permit to Amadou.
It is clear that there are different people among the migrants, but they are
certainly not a dark dangerous crowd, as politicians from the SPD, Tricolors and
ODS like to describe them. These are people who often have war and poverty behind
them and who want a "normal" life. When they have the opportunity to integrate,
they like to do it. Through our solidarity, we can help them and protect them
from the absurd and inhuman "Fortress Europe".
Solidarity is our weapon!
https://www.afed.cz/text/7286/mobilizace-delniku-proti-deportaci
------------------------------
Message: 5
Those of us in the movement for climate justice have for many years advocated for
systematic and radical changes to our economy and society to avert the threat of
climate chaos. For decades, scientists have warned us about the implications of
sea-level rise, droughts and super-storms to the point that we are now finding
ourselves in earth's sixth mass extinction event. While our movement against
further fossil fuel extraction, the destruction of forests and the growing
economic disparities within society has grown in recent years, we are still
largely dealing with governments and corporations who remain part of the problem
and are unwilling to shift.
1. COVID19 - an outpouring of solidarity and mutual aid
The last few months has seen the spread of COVID19 to all corners of our planet.
A virus with no cure is killing and infecting thousands. Communities, iwi,
councils and governments are rising up to the challenge to contain the virus. We
are witnessing an outpouring of love, solidarity and mutual aid in the community
and governments are taking drastic measures to protect the vulnerable in our
society. The climate movement has nothing but admiration for how we are
responding collectively and decisively.
2. Not going back to ‘normality'
Governments across the globe have pledged economic stimulus packages to support
workers and companies who are facing the brunt of virus. In Aotearoa, this
includes the tourism industry, which has more or less collapsed with entry
restrictions; the hospitality sector; musicians and artists; and will also have
long-term serious implications on the agricultural industry.
Government intervention is a must in these difficult times. But let's be clear -
the last thing we want is to return to ‘normality'.
Let's just dissect ‘normality' for a few sentences. Is it normal that the current
rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than
natural background rates? Is it normal that the past hundred years have seen
global temperatures rise by over 1 degrees due to human activity? Is it normal
that the world's 26 richest people own as much wealth as poorest 50% together?
No. no and no.
There is no going back to normality because normality is destroying our planet
and our lives. So the last thing we should be doing right now is to collectivise
the losses of companies that have been destroying this planet for decades.
3. Survive the pandemic - but extinct by the end of the millennia?
Surviving this pandemic is a priority. It has to be. It is a matter of survival,
particularly for poor, indigenous and marginalised communities. But let's
intervene in the economy so that we not only get through the pandemic, but so
that we also get through this millennia.
4. Capitalism is not our future
Capitalism is a relatively new economic model. For thousands of years, humans
have lived in relative harmony with each other and the environment in tribal
communities. Yes, there were rough times. Yes, there was war. But the presence of
war, environmental degradation, disease and inequality with our current model is
unprecedented. Capitalism is the root cause of the climate crisis. The
never-ending concentration of economic and political power in the hands of a few
at the expense of everyone else is bringing misery and hardship on a massive
scale. We have to move on. We have to admit that capitalism was a bad mistake,
learn from our mistakes and find collective solutions.
5. Solutions are beautiful - and they are everywhere
While the current pandemic has shown us the fragility of our own existence, it
has also demonstrated that human nature is ultimately caring, kind and follows
the maxim of ‘one for all, and all for one'. Values like solidarity and mutual
aid - values that are so antithetical to the capitalist paradigm - run so
strongly in our communities.
While many of us are involved on a day-to-day basis defending and expanding
communal spaces and ideas as solutions to the climate crisis, we must be vocal
now that we collectively seize this moment to move away and leave behind the age
of capitalism, the age of plastic, the age of human domination over nature.
https://communalism.noblogs.org/post/2020/04/24/climate-justice-a-movement-for-radical-change/
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