#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #SPAIN #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Spain, apoyo mutuo: Chronicle of #Colectiviza2022 - The Libertarian Social Forum Collectivizes! is consolidated with its second edition (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The more than ninety registered people who participated on the 17th and 18th in

the second Libertarian Social Forum Collectivizes! , in the town of Selgua
(Monzón), confirm that this organization has generated its own political space
for democratic confederalism in Aragon. ---- As in the first edition of the
Forum, the organization welcomed people from all over Aragon, as well as Navarra,
Valencia and Catalonia, among other territories, with a breakfast. This space for
socialization and exchange remained active between the different activities,
throughout the weekend. ---- The natural environment of the Forum, located on the
banks of the Cinca River, was chosen because numerous communities were created in
this region between 1936 and 1938. With a tribute to the Aragonese women who
organized themselves in this way, the Permanent Secretariat opened the
conference, highlighting the trajectory of the organization since the previous
edition, its territorial extension and its formation as a strategic organization.

This meeting between Mutual Support and the social movements of the territory
began with a table on Political Democracy. The first intervention was carried out
by the co-spokesperson of Apoyo Mutuo. From this it was pointed out that it was
appropriate to launch a political organization belonging to the tradition of
libertarian socialism, taking into account the shortcomings of this political
line in Aragon, often subjected to the inertia of existing organizations. From
this look "with some hope" to the future, the "deterioration of democratic
thinking and the emergence of increasingly consolidated authoritarian thoughts
from the right" were also pointed out.

For his part, Oleguer, a member of Azadí Platform , presented the origins of
Democratic Confederalism and its implementation by the Kurdish people, through a
process of decades of reflection and struggle. This and other peoples articulate
this proposal "from the recovery of communal culture and through shared
legitimacy, where the autonomous organization of women occupies a relevant
space". This intervention, like others of the Social Forum, was also part of the
texts of the seventh issue of the Colectividad bulletin.

Finally, Pedro Moreno , ecosocial degrowth activist and author of the book New
Institutionalities , landed the proposal of Democratic Confederalism in our
territory, through his organizational commitment to integral environmentalism,
where the libertarian practice of direct democracy would enable the creation of
networks of consumption and production, which can allow us to overcome the
Nation-State, after a time of coexistence, from the local and communal practices.

After the debate and the subsequent break, the second table dealt with the
Defense of the Territory. In this edition, in this space it was possible to know
the situation of three of the conflicts that directly affect our land. These are
a reflection, according to the participants, of how capitalism tries to overwhelm
our ecosystem, our dignity as workers and our health. From the Platform Against
the Privatization of Health, the laws that make health a business today and have
ceased to be a right were explained. For its part, the Platform in Defense of the
Territory of the Five Villas presented its fight against the macro-projects of
wind power and solar panels. Finishing the table with the intervention of the CNT
union of Uesca, with the fight that its Trade Union Section is leading in the
Litera Meat Slaughterhouse (Binéfar) for the labor rights of its workers, mostly
immigrants.

During the debate, it became clear that "those who accumulate more capital, the
extractive business community and the political parties of the 1978 Regime are
presenting these attacks on the territory as kind," offering "precarious jobs and
privatized services as a supposed quality of life, which is in reality, the
private economic ball for a few", according to the moderator of the table. In
contrast, the participating trade unionists and activists made it clear that the
strength of unity and solidarity was the only way to lead a dignified life.

After lunch, Germán Ferrer Marzolaoffered the conference "Anarchism in Cinca.
 From the origins to the civil war (1870-1938)". This historian specialized in
the region, exposed the history of the libertarian movement on the banks of the
Cinca, from the end of the 19th century, until the end of the civil war. With
various examples, he surprised the attendees with data not yet published on the
different frustrated attempts, during the period before the war, to launch the
social revolution in populations where agriculture and small industry
predominated. On this basis, the libertarian political tradition facilitated the
implementation of the collectivities throughout the region, beginning with the
military coup d'état in 1936. This self-managed experience was violently
dismantled by communist and republican troops;

With a greeting in Aragonese, Soninke and Romani, the Cultural Pluralism table
began with the intervention of Oskar Sada, a Navarrese linguistic activist, who
stated that "minorized luengas and their speakers amanixen within the linguistic
homochenization as dissident political suchetos" , being "crossed, from time to
time, from behind oppressions: sexual-affective, chenero, class, ethnicity, etc."
The path that Oskar proposed "failures against the naturalization of a social
categorization imposed according to the use of one length or another, believing
in synergy, challenges and tools that honor and dignify, emphasizing teaching and
use". Next, Jose Francisco Rodriguez, social worker and activist for the rights
of the Roma People, explained that these Aragonese women have experienced "for
centuries the deepest discrimination, being undeniable that until now, there
continues to be an anti-Gypsy residue that conditions and makes life difficult
for the Roma in all areas". Once this is assumed, the line of action for José
Francisco is clear: "work for autonomy, critical thinking, reflection,
empowerment and emancipation of the Roma people as a diverse group". This task
"requires the support and participation, both of the different Roma figures, who
may be of reference, and of the rest of the majority society". At the end of the
day, he concluded, "it is about fighting for the suppression of all inequalities".

Joining these reflections, Aisetou Kajakeh , from the Kemet Collective , made a
criticism of the spaces for political dialogue, where there should be anti-racist
voices of their own. For this Afro-descendant sociology student and activist, it
is necessary to "break with the single narrative" when speaking of democratic
participation, trade unionism, defense of territory or feminism, including
racialized voices in all of them. "To speak of cultural pluralism at a single
table is an understatement, since, in the reality of daily coexistence", it is
forgotten that there are subjects "who are minorized for reasons of race, for
dehumanization", who "are also citizens, who also participate" in Aragon. After
one of the most intense debates of Colectiviza!, Aisetou concluded: "I feel that
it is important to understand what anti-racism is, because it is necessary for
coexistence, as well as being a necessary incentive to break with the hegemonic
story" that this table was about.

The day ended with a rap concert in Aragonese, by Krevi Solenco .

On the second day of the Social Forum, and after the common breakfast, the
Economic Democracy table began by framing this Mutual Support proposal as "the
overcoming of capitalism through popular autonomy and the recovery of the means
of production." The four participants as speakers "presented, on the one hand,
viable and practical alternatives and, on the other, they warned of the meaning
and danger of the production model that is currently imposed on us."

Thus, Ana Santidrián and Edurne Caballero, who are part of the Biela y Tierra
project , brought to the table the concept of ecofeminism, which puts life at the
center, and described several peninsular projects, headed by women and based on
ecological and fair trade, as well as in reconciling family and productive life.

Secondly, Hugo Esteban, a member of the free currency group of the Sobrarbe
region, explained how this initiative works and what social uses the
implementation of this currency can have in other territories, just as it is
already done in neighboring countries. .

And María José Pueyo, an activist from the Loporzano Platform without Intensive
Livestock, recounted the high levels of precariousness, rural abandonment and
contamination of aquifers, among many other data, that accompany intensive
livestock infrastructures wherever they are installed.

To end the Social Forum, the Feminism and Women's Liberation table began with a
presentation by Berta Sánchez, an activist from Feministas Aragón por Nicaragua ,
analyzing the working conditions of women in the global south, especially those
who work in the maquilas.

The table continued with the group of Women Workers of the Home and Care of
Zaragoza and their struggle to obtain basic labor rights, exposing the conditions
they face daily.

Finally, the table was closed by the group CAMPA (Collective to Support Women
Prisoners in Aragon) that showed the conditions to which women prisoners are
subjected and the new prison models that are being established in the territory.

To close the meeting, the Mutual Support co-spokesperson made "a call to delve
into one of the foundations of Democratic Confederalism, such as criticism and
self-criticism, to learn from what was heard and lived, lived together" in this
second Collectiviza! . Thanking all the participants for their contributions, the
theoretical reflection, the closeness, and the hours spent together, among
colleagues and visions of reality that "should help us to learn and move forward."

Throughout the weekend, it was possible to visit the exhibition on Amparo Poch ,
Aragonese doctor, journalist and anarcho-feminist (Zaragoza, 1902 - Toulouse,
France, 1968), on loan from the CGT Aragón-Rioja union; as well as contributing
funds for the support fund for the union section of CNT Uesca in the company
Litera Meat. At the end of the Forum, what was collected was handed over to a
representative of this union.

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