Today's Topics:
1. [Czech Republic] Brno Disobediente - book fair of radical
imagination, By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
imagination, By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Covid-19: Washable Face Mask Distribution By Bangladesh
Anarcho Syndicalist Federation - BASF [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Anarcho Syndicalist Federation - BASF [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Greece, Gathering of solidarity with the anti-fascists
arrested on 16/9. | Thursday 17/9, 09:00 at the Courts of
Thessaloniki. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
arrested on 16/9. | Thursday 17/9, 09:00 at the Courts of
Thessaloniki. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Tamaki Makaurau Anarchists: Auckland Activist Fortnightly
Newsletter #51 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Newsletter #51 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, Announcement and calls of A.P.O. on the marches for
the 2 years since the murder of Jacques
the 2 years since the murder of Jacques
[machine translation]
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Message: 1
Allow us to invite you to the first year of the festival of independent and radical literature called Neposlušné Brno ("Brno Disobediente").
We will continue the long tradition of the Prague Anarchist Book Fair - in addition, we would like to create a space in Brno also for small
publishers and DIY groups dedicated to anarchist literature. At the same time, it will be a great opportunity for meetings, debates and
mutual education. ---- The theme of Neposlušné Brno's first year is people's right to the city. Rising rental and apartment prices, the lack
of affordable services, the effects of the climate crisis, unsatisfactory housing conditions and the displacement of low-income citizens to
the peripheries are problems that people face in most cities around the world . Urban, local and global social movements want to see the
city as a shared space, not a market commodity. They strive for everyone to have access to quality, affordable housing in a healthy environment.
Brno is no exception. Due to the cancellation of the Housing First project, the privatization of the city's housing stock and the weak
response to the climate crisis, it is becoming an increasingly inaccessible city for its diverse population. At the same time, new
collectives are emerging to try to reverse this trend.
In addition to bookstores and publishers, Neposlušné Brno will offer you lectures and debates on the topics: the right to housing,
democratization of the city, life in the city during the climate crisis and much more.
The festival will take place on the premises of the former Káznice, which today serves as a stage for several activist groups. Clearly
showing how colorful the use of empty houses can be when they are made available to residents. Káznice is located in Cejl, a neighborhood
that is undergoing intense gentrification and from which the original inhabitants are gradually being expelled to other parts of the city.
That is why we consider it symbolically important to organize the festival in this same place.
The program will be announced shortly.
neposlusnebrno.noblogs.org
Translation> A. Padalecki
Related content:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2018/04/02/republica-tcheca-6a-feira-do-livro-anarquista-de-praga/
anarchist news agency-ana
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Bangladesh Enerco-Syndicist Federation-BASF today started distributing washable face masks among poor tea workers under "Mutual Aid" program
to prevent covid-19. ---- Since the outbreak of Kovid-19 since last March, the organization has been conducting health awareness among the
people in all branches, distributing soap for washing hands and distributing masks. ---- Now it has started distributing washable face masks
that can be used repeatedly instead of one time masks. At this stage it will be distributed among 3000 people. Later its number will be
further increased. ---- The BASF believes that health care is a very useful and fundamental human right. It is not possible to solve it
permanently in isolation. That is why such a self-regulated, truly democratic, participatory society needs to be built. All activities
including health issues for the society will be managed and controlled by the society. Only a society free from the influence of capitalism
and the state can solve all problems sustainably.
[Bangladesh Anarcho-Syndicist Federation-BASF has started distribution ‘washable face masks' among poor tea plantation workers today,
September 16, 2020 under the "Mutual Aid" program to prevent covid-19. Since the outbreak of Covid-19 from month of March in Bangladesh ,
the organization has been conducting health education to creating awareness among the people in all BASF branches, distributing ‘soap' for
washing hands and distributing face masks. Now it has started distributing ‘washable face masks' that can be used several times instead of
one time masks. At this stage it will be distributed among 3000 people. Later its number will be further increased and cover more people.
The BASF believes that health care initiative is a very useful and fundamental human right. It is not possible to solve it permanently in
isolated approach. So it is necessary to build such a self-regulated, truly democratic, participatory society. All activities including
health issues for the society will be managed and controlled by the society. Only a society free from the influence of capitalism and the
stateism can solve all problems sustainably.]
https://bangladeshasf.org/covid-19-washable-face-mask-distribution/
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Message: 3
On the night of Wednesday 16/9 at around 22:30 48 anti-fascists and anti-fascists carried out a similar intervention in Nea Paralia,
Thessaloniki, in order to clean the area from the fascist slogans that were recently filled by fascists who gathered there on the day of the
prime minister's speech. 12/9. The anti-fascists and anti-fascists were surrounded by police machines and MAT squads. The police forces
brought the whole body of the anti-fascists and took them to GADTH. 2 comrades were injured during their arrest and were transported to
Papageorgiou Hospital for treatment. ---- The provocative attack on the anti-fascist comrades demonstrates once again the relentless nature
of state repression and the state's tolerance of the fascists, whom it feeds as the most reactionary reserve of the capitalist system. This
repressive attack by the anti-fascist comrades and the anti-fascist comrades is a demonstrative provocation by the state and the cops just a
few days before the central anti-fascist demonstrations on the anniversary of the assassination of the anti-fascist Pavlos Fydos, only a few
of the trial of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn organization.
We will not leave any comrade and no comrade, no part of the anti-capitalist and anti-fascist movement in the hands of state repression. Our
solidarity with the arrested anti-fascists and the arrested anti-fascists is given and undivided. Collectively, we must be their net of
defense against the persecution of the state and its executive mechanisms.
Our answer to be given en masse and dynamically in the streets of the struggle, supporting the nationwide anti-fascist mobilizations on 9/18.
We call for a rally of solidarity with the arrested anti-fascist comrades and the arrested anti-fascist comrades: Thursday 17/9, 09:00 in
the Courts of Thessaloniki.
NO PROSECUTION OF ARRESTED ANTIFASCISTS AND ARRESTED ANTIFASCISTS
FASCISM IS CRUSHED ON THE STREET BY THE WORLD OF THE STRUGGLE
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON
Libertarian Initiative of Thessaloniki (member of the Anarchist Federation)
lib_thess@hotmail.com
libertasalonica.wordpress.com
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2020/09/16
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Kia ora e te whanau, this is the fifty first Auckland Activist Newsletter! We're still at Alert Level 2.5, but hopefully we should be at
Alert Level 1 very soon! You can find all the up to date information on COVID-19 here (https://covid19.govt.nz/). ---- If you have an event
that you want added to the next newsletter, which will be released on Sunday 4 October, then please email your event details to
tamakimakaurauanarchists@protonmail.com ---- There are a range of events happening in the rest of August and in early September. More
specifically, several demonstrations are being held, including the Fight For Our Families March on Saturday 3 October from 1.30pm at Aotea
Square and the ongoing Freedom Fridays! Uyghur Solidarity on every Friday evening from 5.30pm at Aotea Square.
In addition, there are a range of webinars being held, including 2020 Referendum Information Evening on Monday 21 September from 7.30pm
online via Youtube, Stories of Change NZ 2: Iceberg Model - Rise of the Civil Rights Movement on Thursday 1 October from 5pm online via
Zoom, and Values in the time of COVID-19 on Thursday 1 October from 7pm online via Youtube.
There are also several talks happening, including Auckland's Transit Camps 1944-1978 on Sunday 27 September from 12pm at Auckland Libraries,
Chinese in Auckland after the Gold Rush with David Wong on Sunday 27 September from 1pm at Auckland Libraries and Pacific women's experience
of maternity on Wednesday 30 September from 12pm at Auckland Research Centres, Changing demographics in South Auckland on Wednesday 7
October from 12pm at Auckland Libraries, Public Talk: A Change of Heart on Wednesday 7 October from 6.30pm at 55 Madden Street, and the
David Wakim Memorial Lecture - John Minto on Thursday 8 October from 7pm at St Columba Centre.
In addition, there are other events happening, such as Legacies of Slavery and Colonisation: Talanoa Oceania 2020 from Friday 25 September
from 9am at Trinity Theological College, AUSA's Drug Reform Debate on Wednesday 30 September from 6.30pm at Owen G Glenn Building, ASTR Te
Tiriti Workshop on Saturday 10 October from 9am, ASTR South Asian Tiriti Workshop on Sunday 11 October from 11am and Te Tiriti Workshop on
Saturday 17 October from 11am at Rainbow Youth.
If you need a bit of a break, there's Let's Get Talking! (Drop-in Support Group) every Friday until Friday 30 October from 2pm online via
Zoom, where you can get some support.
With there being no cases of COVID-19 community transmission for several days now, we'll hopefully be back at Alert Level 1 next week, so
get ready for large-scale in-person political action!
We are an explicitly anarchist group in Auckland struggling for a better, fair and equal world. We are always open to new members. To find
out more, come along to a public meeting, or you can find us at tamakimakaurauanarchists@gmail.com.
Upcoming Events on the Left in Auckland
Ongoing
Occupation @ Ihumatao, Oruarangi Road, Ihumatao
Occupation and blockade of the Ihumatao site. Family-friendly. Check facebook for updates on situation, material needs and carpooling etc.
Page: https://www.facebook.com/protectihumatao/
Ongoing Monthly on Thursdays until Thursday 24 September, 7.30-9pm
Introduction to Extinction Rebellion, Gribblehirst Community Hub
An introductory session of Extinction Rebellion, its history, current activities and future plans. Free. RSVP.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/491260308161501/
Ongoing Weekly on Fridays until Friday 30 October, 2pm
Let's Get Talking! (Drop-in Support Group), online via Zoom
Had a rough week and needing some support? Join us for our drop-in support group! These sessions will be built on an Intentional Peer
Support Framework. This is a model for creating relationships where all people learn and grow together. Free. RSVP.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/307130130325921/
Ongoing Monthly on Thursdays until Thursday 26 November, 6.45-8.30pm
XR Auckland Central - Social, Fhloston Paradise
A regional induction where new Extinction Rebellion members can meet existing XR members and ask questions and discuss what's going on.
Free. RSVP.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1245163849155889/
Ongoing Weekly on Fridays until Friday 18 December, 5.30pm
Freedom Fridays! Uyghur Solidarity! Aotea Square
Join Uyghur Solidarity every Friday evening to stand for human rights and freedom for the Uyghur people. They will have music, light and
information. Join them for dinner afterwards, their shout if cost is a factor. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/706389583540774/
Monday 21 September, 7.30-9pm
2020 Referendum Information Evening, Online via Youtube
The Beach Haven Birkdale Residents Association is hosting a live discussion about the Cannabis legalisation and control referendum and the
End of Life Choice referendum. Guest speakers include Professor Tracey McIntosh, Dr Aileen Collier and Dr Mary Panko. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/696113600983947/
Friday 25 September - Sunday 27 September, from 9am
Legacies of Slavery and Colonisation: Talanoa Oceania 2020, Trinity Theological College
Talanoa 2020 is a platform for navigating the intersections of civilisation-colonisation-slavery in Aotearoa and Oceania. RSVP.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2423542957898115/
Sunday 27 September, 12-1pm
Auckland's Transit Camps 1944-1978, Auckland Libraries
Join Lisa Truttman for this Heritage Festival talk as she talks about the stories and the lives at Auckland's five transit housing camps, at
Mt Victoria in Devonport, Western Springs, Victoria Park, the Auckland Domain, and Camp Bunn near Panmure. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1393305340875099/
Sunday 27 September, 1-2.30pm
Chinese in Auckland after the Gold Rush with David Wong, Auckland Libraries
Join David Wong Hop for this fascinating talk about the Chinese who helped shape Aotearoa as we know it today - from the goldfields, to
market gardens and laundries - to professionals and to politicians. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2810556272511514/
Wednesday 30 September, 12-1pm
Pacific women's experiences of maternity, Auckland Research Centres
Rachel Schmidt will talk about how the experiences of Pacific women who became mothers in Auckland from the years 1950-1995 emerges from the
peripheries of childbirth histories in New Zealand. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/306666170383454/
Wednesday 30 September, 6.30-8.30pm
AUSA's Drug Reform Debate, Owen G Glenn Building
Not sure what to vote in the upcoming Drug Reform Referendum? Have no idea what the Drug Reform laws will even entail? Come along to get
informed and find out what this is all about plus have a few laughs thanks to the banter from Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury! Greens MP Chlöe
Swarbrick will be attending as well as Labour MP Michael Wood and National MP Simeon Brown. TOP deputy leader Shai Navot will also be in
attendance with more to be announced. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/321145025679926/
Thursday 1 October, 5-6pm
Stories of Change NZ 2: Iceberg Model - Rise of the Civil Rights Movement, online via Zoom
A webinar that uses the iceberg model to understand the rise of the black civil rights movement in 1950's America.Free. RSVP.
Link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-of-change-nz-2-iceberg-model-rise-of-the-civil-rights-movement-tickets-118289718733#add-to-calendar-modal
Thursday 1 October, 7-8pm
Values in the time of COVID-19, online via Youtube
Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, New Zealanders have acknowledged health, kindness and time for reflection to be of greater
importance. To what extent have attitudes, beliefs and behaviours changed as we navigate our way through these difficult times? Niki Harre
and Mehmet Ozalp join our panel and discuss values from different perspectives. Free. RSVP.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2636044023325417/
Saturday 3 October, 1.30-3pm
Fight For Our Families March, Aotea Square
A protest to end the scourge of intimate partner violence. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/571621530166541/
Wednesday 7 October, 12-1pm
Changing demographics in South Auckland, Auckland Libraries
Keith Stuart, Auckland Council Archives, will look at the traces in South Auckland local government records of the migrants who came to New
Zealand in the 1920s. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2756651824578679/
Wednesday 7 October, 6.30-8pm
Public Talk: A Change of Heart, 55 Madden Street
Dr Mike Joy, Genevieve Toop, Geoff Reid & Angus Robson will take you on a journey through the veins and arteries of Aotearoa- understanding
the state of our whenua (lands and waterways) and how it links to human and animals health. We will help you understand how intensification
has overshot health limits of our shared land and water and why we need an urgent change of heart in our food production systems. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1379917898873301/
Thursday 8 October, 7-8.30pm
David Wakim Memorial Lecture - John Minto, St Columba Centre
John Minto will be giving the 2020 David Wakim Memorial Lecture on the topic of "Telling Lies About Palestine. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/4025999910750679/
Saturday 10 October, 9am-4pm
ASTR Te Tiriti Workshop, location provided after registration
This is a one day introductory workshop for people of Asian descent to learn about Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The workshop will cover some
history and context to the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and He Whakaputanga, what the actual text of Te Tiriti contained as well as some
translations, what happened after the signing of Te Tiriti, and what rights and responsibilities tauiwi have living in Aotearoa. Free. RSVP
essential.
Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/astr-te-tiriti-workshop-tickets-121347314083
Sunday 11 October, 11am-6pm
ASTR South Asian Tiriti Workshop, location provided after registration
This is a one day introductory workshop for people of South Asian descent to learn about Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The workshop will cover some
history and context to the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and He Whakaputanga, what the actual text of Te Tiriti contained as well as some
translations, what happened after the signing of Te Tiriti, and what rights and responsibilities tauiwi have living in Aotearoa. Free. RSVP
essential.
Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/astr-south-asian-te-tiriti-workshop-tickets-114645066480
Saturday 17 October, 11am-5pm
Te Tiriti Workshop, Rainbow Youth
Come along to the RainbowYOUTH drop-in centre for a free Te Tiriti Workshop run by the Treaty Resource Centre! This course is intended to
increase understanding of the Treaty, providing basic information about why it was written and what it says and address common
misunderstandings. Free. RSVP.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1135321696843856/
Disclaimer: inclusion of events in this message is not necessarily an endorsement. We try to only include events of relevance to members
from groups we know & trust. However, we may miss some events or include some by organisers we don't know. If you have anything to add or
question the inclusion of some events, please let us know and we'll try to remedy it.
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Against State, Capitalist, Patriarchal Barbarism, Repression and Social Emphasis ---- 2 YEARS LATER OR WE DON'T FORGET - WE DO NOT FORGIVE
THE MURDER OF ZAK KOSTOPOULOS / ZACKIE OH! ---- CALLS: ---- Athens: SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER, 18:00, IN GLADSTONOS ---- Patra: MONDAY 21
SEPTEMBER, 18:30, GEORGE SQUARE ---- Thessaloniki: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 18:30, STATUE OF VENIZELOS ---- September 21, 2018: Zak Costopoulos
is murdered at noon in the center of Athens, in Omonia. Trapped inside a jewelry store where he has taken refuge, while a little earlier he
was shouting "help" in the street, he is lynched by the shop owner and a fascist who maintains a real estate office in the area. The two of
them kick him furiously in the head, while he is trying helplessly to free himself, while a crowd is around them. The police arrive to
complete the crime - they hit him covered in blood and fell to the ground, arrested him, handcuffed him and dragged him to the street. He is
taken to the hospital tied up and dead.
In Jacques' face they see a poor, excluded, outcast, a user, a potential thief - a life that the state capitalist and patriarchal system
repeatedly prescribes as a "threat" to order and security, a life that costs it negligibly , which methodically legitimizes its
extermination. Zack's killers do not hesitate to try him and sentence him to death "by taking the law into their own hands", moving within
the framework of the dominant orders as parastatal lackeys - a thief-pawnbroker who feeds on the despair of others, a declared fascist and
the uniformed murderers and torturers of ELAS.
Because the violence they committed has the cover of official law, the support of the institutional barbarism of the regime: the
demonization of poverty, the hunting and punishment of the weak in the class and social hierarchy, the sanctity of property, so as to
safeguard its interests domination and its social reproduction. And it is this violence organized from above by the Power that allows them
to kill intimidated, because they move within the framework of the dominant orders as parastatal lackeys.
It is the state-capitalist-patriarchal system itself that targets those who resist and those who characterize surplus populations in the
time of its deep crisis, suppressing, cultivating fear and promoting social emphasis: racist pogroms under the guise of covering the police
of Shajhat Lukman and Pavlos Fyssas by the Golden Dawn Nazis, concentration camps and drowning of immigrants and refugees at the border,
deaths of prisoners in prisons and police stations, workers in the ranks of mercenary slavery, deportation and confinement of women,
deportation and confinement , launching a repressive campaign against the anarchists and those who are fighting in general,cooperation with
all kinds of mafias and drug mafias at the same time with the policies of impoverishment and repression of users.
The completion of the two years since the assassination of Jacques, in view of the beginning of the trial of his murderers, which is
scheduled for October 21, comes in an environment of outbreak of the covid19 pandemic and intensification of state and capitalist attack on
society. From the beginning of a new round of looting of the social base with the main peaks being the further devaluation of labor, the
practical abolition of social security, the continuation of privatizations, to the restructuring of the education system and the
criminalization of trade union action. From the perpetuation of the Emergency Regime through the suppression and subjugation of the social
and class movements and especially of the anarchist-anti-authoritarians, the evacuations of occupied areas of struggle, the police
occupation of entire areas until the prohibition of demonstrations and the general upgrade of the legal arsenal to the detriment of
militants. From the escalation of the war against refugees and immigrants, the attempt to demonize them, their disappearance from the public
sphere, their confinement in concentration camps to the looting of the physical world through the activation of the machines of capitalist
development that will destroy local societies, mountains, rivers, seas, lakes, forests in the name of profit and full enforcement on man and
nature.
State repression is today a dominant component of state strategy. This military operation against those who are fighting is part of the
decades-long systematic effort on the part of the Greek state to subdue social and class resistance and impose submission.
Zak's killers, the police, the judiciary, the media who rushed to cover up and justify the murder, constructing consensus, misinforming,
presenting him as dangerous, dogging his life and identity as an HIV-positive member of the LGBTQI community activists, as well as those who
applaud the authoritarian barbarism, identifying with the interests of the powerful, in fact represent what the most anti-social has to do
with the decay of the world of Power.
On the other hand, the thousands who protested against Jacques's assassination, demanding visibility in public and blocking cannibalistic
rhetoric, those who in any way refuse to consent and submit to the prevailing project of social cannibalism in the cannibalistic world. to
defend what belongs to them, all those who demonstrated in Chania and Thessaloniki for the repressive attacks of the state against the
squatters, all those who, in defiance of the checks, rebuild libertatia 3 years after its arson by the fascists, all those who put up
embankments in state repression and fight against the regime of exploitation and subjugation, represent the most promising thing this
society has to show: solidarity, rebellion,the prospect of a social revolution, for a world that will fit many worlds.
As anarchists we fight for the intensification of social and class resistance, with the aim of overthrowing the political and economic
bosses responsible for exploitation, oppression, poverty, misery, social cannibalism. With our weapon of solidarity, we stand against false
divisions and the fear that power constantly reproduces. We are fighting to overcome the imposed way of organizing society by the state and
capital.
FOR THE CREATION OF A SOCIETY OF EQUALITY, SOLIDARITY, FREEDOM
FOR THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND FREEDOM COMMUNISM
Anarchist Political Organization / Federation of Collectivities
apo.squathost.com | anpolorg@gmail.com
http://apo.squathost.com/anakinosi-ke-kalesmata-tis-a-p-o-stis-pories-gia-ton-ena-chrono-apo-ti-dolofonia-tou-zak/
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Allow us to invite you to the first year of the festival of independent and radical literature called Neposlušné Brno ("Brno Disobediente").
We will continue the long tradition of the Prague Anarchist Book Fair - in addition, we would like to create a space in Brno also for small
publishers and DIY groups dedicated to anarchist literature. At the same time, it will be a great opportunity for meetings, debates and
mutual education. ---- The theme of Neposlušné Brno's first year is people's right to the city. Rising rental and apartment prices, the lack
of affordable services, the effects of the climate crisis, unsatisfactory housing conditions and the displacement of low-income citizens to
the peripheries are problems that people face in most cities around the world . Urban, local and global social movements want to see the
city as a shared space, not a market commodity. They strive for everyone to have access to quality, affordable housing in a healthy environment.
Brno is no exception. Due to the cancellation of the Housing First project, the privatization of the city's housing stock and the weak
response to the climate crisis, it is becoming an increasingly inaccessible city for its diverse population. At the same time, new
collectives are emerging to try to reverse this trend.
In addition to bookstores and publishers, Neposlušné Brno will offer you lectures and debates on the topics: the right to housing,
democratization of the city, life in the city during the climate crisis and much more.
The festival will take place on the premises of the former Káznice, which today serves as a stage for several activist groups. Clearly
showing how colorful the use of empty houses can be when they are made available to residents. Káznice is located in Cejl, a neighborhood
that is undergoing intense gentrification and from which the original inhabitants are gradually being expelled to other parts of the city.
That is why we consider it symbolically important to organize the festival in this same place.
The program will be announced shortly.
neposlusnebrno.noblogs.org
Translation> A. Padalecki
Related content:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2018/04/02/republica-tcheca-6a-feira-do-livro-anarquista-de-praga/
anarchist news agency-ana
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Message: 2
Bangladesh Enerco-Syndicist Federation-BASF today started distributing washable face masks among poor tea workers under "Mutual Aid" program
to prevent covid-19. ---- Since the outbreak of Kovid-19 since last March, the organization has been conducting health awareness among the
people in all branches, distributing soap for washing hands and distributing masks. ---- Now it has started distributing washable face masks
that can be used repeatedly instead of one time masks. At this stage it will be distributed among 3000 people. Later its number will be
further increased. ---- The BASF believes that health care is a very useful and fundamental human right. It is not possible to solve it
permanently in isolation. That is why such a self-regulated, truly democratic, participatory society needs to be built. All activities
including health issues for the society will be managed and controlled by the society. Only a society free from the influence of capitalism
and the state can solve all problems sustainably.
[Bangladesh Anarcho-Syndicist Federation-BASF has started distribution ‘washable face masks' among poor tea plantation workers today,
September 16, 2020 under the "Mutual Aid" program to prevent covid-19. Since the outbreak of Covid-19 from month of March in Bangladesh ,
the organization has been conducting health education to creating awareness among the people in all BASF branches, distributing ‘soap' for
washing hands and distributing face masks. Now it has started distributing ‘washable face masks' that can be used several times instead of
one time masks. At this stage it will be distributed among 3000 people. Later its number will be further increased and cover more people.
The BASF believes that health care initiative is a very useful and fundamental human right. It is not possible to solve it permanently in
isolated approach. So it is necessary to build such a self-regulated, truly democratic, participatory society. All activities including
health issues for the society will be managed and controlled by the society. Only a society free from the influence of capitalism and the
stateism can solve all problems sustainably.]
https://bangladeshasf.org/covid-19-washable-face-mask-distribution/
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Message: 3
On the night of Wednesday 16/9 at around 22:30 48 anti-fascists and anti-fascists carried out a similar intervention in Nea Paralia,
Thessaloniki, in order to clean the area from the fascist slogans that were recently filled by fascists who gathered there on the day of the
prime minister's speech. 12/9. The anti-fascists and anti-fascists were surrounded by police machines and MAT squads. The police forces
brought the whole body of the anti-fascists and took them to GADTH. 2 comrades were injured during their arrest and were transported to
Papageorgiou Hospital for treatment. ---- The provocative attack on the anti-fascist comrades demonstrates once again the relentless nature
of state repression and the state's tolerance of the fascists, whom it feeds as the most reactionary reserve of the capitalist system. This
repressive attack by the anti-fascist comrades and the anti-fascist comrades is a demonstrative provocation by the state and the cops just a
few days before the central anti-fascist demonstrations on the anniversary of the assassination of the anti-fascist Pavlos Fydos, only a few
of the trial of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn organization.
We will not leave any comrade and no comrade, no part of the anti-capitalist and anti-fascist movement in the hands of state repression. Our
solidarity with the arrested anti-fascists and the arrested anti-fascists is given and undivided. Collectively, we must be their net of
defense against the persecution of the state and its executive mechanisms.
Our answer to be given en masse and dynamically in the streets of the struggle, supporting the nationwide anti-fascist mobilizations on 9/18.
We call for a rally of solidarity with the arrested anti-fascist comrades and the arrested anti-fascist comrades: Thursday 17/9, 09:00 in
the Courts of Thessaloniki.
NO PROSECUTION OF ARRESTED ANTIFASCISTS AND ARRESTED ANTIFASCISTS
FASCISM IS CRUSHED ON THE STREET BY THE WORLD OF THE STRUGGLE
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON
Libertarian Initiative of Thessaloniki (member of the Anarchist Federation)
lib_thess@hotmail.com
libertasalonica.wordpress.com
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2020/09/16
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Kia ora e te whanau, this is the fifty first Auckland Activist Newsletter! We're still at Alert Level 2.5, but hopefully we should be at
Alert Level 1 very soon! You can find all the up to date information on COVID-19 here (https://covid19.govt.nz/). ---- If you have an event
that you want added to the next newsletter, which will be released on Sunday 4 October, then please email your event details to
tamakimakaurauanarchists@protonmail.com ---- There are a range of events happening in the rest of August and in early September. More
specifically, several demonstrations are being held, including the Fight For Our Families March on Saturday 3 October from 1.30pm at Aotea
Square and the ongoing Freedom Fridays! Uyghur Solidarity on every Friday evening from 5.30pm at Aotea Square.
In addition, there are a range of webinars being held, including 2020 Referendum Information Evening on Monday 21 September from 7.30pm
online via Youtube, Stories of Change NZ 2: Iceberg Model - Rise of the Civil Rights Movement on Thursday 1 October from 5pm online via
Zoom, and Values in the time of COVID-19 on Thursday 1 October from 7pm online via Youtube.
There are also several talks happening, including Auckland's Transit Camps 1944-1978 on Sunday 27 September from 12pm at Auckland Libraries,
Chinese in Auckland after the Gold Rush with David Wong on Sunday 27 September from 1pm at Auckland Libraries and Pacific women's experience
of maternity on Wednesday 30 September from 12pm at Auckland Research Centres, Changing demographics in South Auckland on Wednesday 7
October from 12pm at Auckland Libraries, Public Talk: A Change of Heart on Wednesday 7 October from 6.30pm at 55 Madden Street, and the
David Wakim Memorial Lecture - John Minto on Thursday 8 October from 7pm at St Columba Centre.
In addition, there are other events happening, such as Legacies of Slavery and Colonisation: Talanoa Oceania 2020 from Friday 25 September
from 9am at Trinity Theological College, AUSA's Drug Reform Debate on Wednesday 30 September from 6.30pm at Owen G Glenn Building, ASTR Te
Tiriti Workshop on Saturday 10 October from 9am, ASTR South Asian Tiriti Workshop on Sunday 11 October from 11am and Te Tiriti Workshop on
Saturday 17 October from 11am at Rainbow Youth.
If you need a bit of a break, there's Let's Get Talking! (Drop-in Support Group) every Friday until Friday 30 October from 2pm online via
Zoom, where you can get some support.
With there being no cases of COVID-19 community transmission for several days now, we'll hopefully be back at Alert Level 1 next week, so
get ready for large-scale in-person political action!
We are an explicitly anarchist group in Auckland struggling for a better, fair and equal world. We are always open to new members. To find
out more, come along to a public meeting, or you can find us at tamakimakaurauanarchists@gmail.com.
Upcoming Events on the Left in Auckland
Ongoing
Occupation @ Ihumatao, Oruarangi Road, Ihumatao
Occupation and blockade of the Ihumatao site. Family-friendly. Check facebook for updates on situation, material needs and carpooling etc.
Page: https://www.facebook.com/protectihumatao/
Ongoing Monthly on Thursdays until Thursday 24 September, 7.30-9pm
Introduction to Extinction Rebellion, Gribblehirst Community Hub
An introductory session of Extinction Rebellion, its history, current activities and future plans. Free. RSVP.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/491260308161501/
Ongoing Weekly on Fridays until Friday 30 October, 2pm
Let's Get Talking! (Drop-in Support Group), online via Zoom
Had a rough week and needing some support? Join us for our drop-in support group! These sessions will be built on an Intentional Peer
Support Framework. This is a model for creating relationships where all people learn and grow together. Free. RSVP.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/307130130325921/
Ongoing Monthly on Thursdays until Thursday 26 November, 6.45-8.30pm
XR Auckland Central - Social, Fhloston Paradise
A regional induction where new Extinction Rebellion members can meet existing XR members and ask questions and discuss what's going on.
Free. RSVP.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1245163849155889/
Ongoing Weekly on Fridays until Friday 18 December, 5.30pm
Freedom Fridays! Uyghur Solidarity! Aotea Square
Join Uyghur Solidarity every Friday evening to stand for human rights and freedom for the Uyghur people. They will have music, light and
information. Join them for dinner afterwards, their shout if cost is a factor. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/706389583540774/
Monday 21 September, 7.30-9pm
2020 Referendum Information Evening, Online via Youtube
The Beach Haven Birkdale Residents Association is hosting a live discussion about the Cannabis legalisation and control referendum and the
End of Life Choice referendum. Guest speakers include Professor Tracey McIntosh, Dr Aileen Collier and Dr Mary Panko. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/696113600983947/
Friday 25 September - Sunday 27 September, from 9am
Legacies of Slavery and Colonisation: Talanoa Oceania 2020, Trinity Theological College
Talanoa 2020 is a platform for navigating the intersections of civilisation-colonisation-slavery in Aotearoa and Oceania. RSVP.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2423542957898115/
Sunday 27 September, 12-1pm
Auckland's Transit Camps 1944-1978, Auckland Libraries
Join Lisa Truttman for this Heritage Festival talk as she talks about the stories and the lives at Auckland's five transit housing camps, at
Mt Victoria in Devonport, Western Springs, Victoria Park, the Auckland Domain, and Camp Bunn near Panmure. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1393305340875099/
Sunday 27 September, 1-2.30pm
Chinese in Auckland after the Gold Rush with David Wong, Auckland Libraries
Join David Wong Hop for this fascinating talk about the Chinese who helped shape Aotearoa as we know it today - from the goldfields, to
market gardens and laundries - to professionals and to politicians. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2810556272511514/
Wednesday 30 September, 12-1pm
Pacific women's experiences of maternity, Auckland Research Centres
Rachel Schmidt will talk about how the experiences of Pacific women who became mothers in Auckland from the years 1950-1995 emerges from the
peripheries of childbirth histories in New Zealand. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/306666170383454/
Wednesday 30 September, 6.30-8.30pm
AUSA's Drug Reform Debate, Owen G Glenn Building
Not sure what to vote in the upcoming Drug Reform Referendum? Have no idea what the Drug Reform laws will even entail? Come along to get
informed and find out what this is all about plus have a few laughs thanks to the banter from Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury! Greens MP Chlöe
Swarbrick will be attending as well as Labour MP Michael Wood and National MP Simeon Brown. TOP deputy leader Shai Navot will also be in
attendance with more to be announced. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/321145025679926/
Thursday 1 October, 5-6pm
Stories of Change NZ 2: Iceberg Model - Rise of the Civil Rights Movement, online via Zoom
A webinar that uses the iceberg model to understand the rise of the black civil rights movement in 1950's America.Free. RSVP.
Link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-of-change-nz-2-iceberg-model-rise-of-the-civil-rights-movement-tickets-118289718733#add-to-calendar-modal
Thursday 1 October, 7-8pm
Values in the time of COVID-19, online via Youtube
Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, New Zealanders have acknowledged health, kindness and time for reflection to be of greater
importance. To what extent have attitudes, beliefs and behaviours changed as we navigate our way through these difficult times? Niki Harre
and Mehmet Ozalp join our panel and discuss values from different perspectives. Free. RSVP.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2636044023325417/
Saturday 3 October, 1.30-3pm
Fight For Our Families March, Aotea Square
A protest to end the scourge of intimate partner violence. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/571621530166541/
Wednesday 7 October, 12-1pm
Changing demographics in South Auckland, Auckland Libraries
Keith Stuart, Auckland Council Archives, will look at the traces in South Auckland local government records of the migrants who came to New
Zealand in the 1920s. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2756651824578679/
Wednesday 7 October, 6.30-8pm
Public Talk: A Change of Heart, 55 Madden Street
Dr Mike Joy, Genevieve Toop, Geoff Reid & Angus Robson will take you on a journey through the veins and arteries of Aotearoa- understanding
the state of our whenua (lands and waterways) and how it links to human and animals health. We will help you understand how intensification
has overshot health limits of our shared land and water and why we need an urgent change of heart in our food production systems. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1379917898873301/
Thursday 8 October, 7-8.30pm
David Wakim Memorial Lecture - John Minto, St Columba Centre
John Minto will be giving the 2020 David Wakim Memorial Lecture on the topic of "Telling Lies About Palestine. Free.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/4025999910750679/
Saturday 10 October, 9am-4pm
ASTR Te Tiriti Workshop, location provided after registration
This is a one day introductory workshop for people of Asian descent to learn about Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The workshop will cover some
history and context to the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and He Whakaputanga, what the actual text of Te Tiriti contained as well as some
translations, what happened after the signing of Te Tiriti, and what rights and responsibilities tauiwi have living in Aotearoa. Free. RSVP
essential.
Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/astr-te-tiriti-workshop-tickets-121347314083
Sunday 11 October, 11am-6pm
ASTR South Asian Tiriti Workshop, location provided after registration
This is a one day introductory workshop for people of South Asian descent to learn about Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The workshop will cover some
history and context to the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and He Whakaputanga, what the actual text of Te Tiriti contained as well as some
translations, what happened after the signing of Te Tiriti, and what rights and responsibilities tauiwi have living in Aotearoa. Free. RSVP
essential.
Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/astr-south-asian-te-tiriti-workshop-tickets-114645066480
Saturday 17 October, 11am-5pm
Te Tiriti Workshop, Rainbow Youth
Come along to the RainbowYOUTH drop-in centre for a free Te Tiriti Workshop run by the Treaty Resource Centre! This course is intended to
increase understanding of the Treaty, providing basic information about why it was written and what it says and address common
misunderstandings. Free. RSVP.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1135321696843856/
Disclaimer: inclusion of events in this message is not necessarily an endorsement. We try to only include events of relevance to members
from groups we know & trust. However, we may miss some events or include some by organisers we don't know. If you have anything to add or
question the inclusion of some events, please let us know and we'll try to remedy it.
https://mailchi.mp/42585924e181/auckland-activist-fortnightly-newsletter-51
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Against State, Capitalist, Patriarchal Barbarism, Repression and Social Emphasis ---- 2 YEARS LATER OR WE DON'T FORGET - WE DO NOT FORGIVE
THE MURDER OF ZAK KOSTOPOULOS / ZACKIE OH! ---- CALLS: ---- Athens: SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER, 18:00, IN GLADSTONOS ---- Patra: MONDAY 21
SEPTEMBER, 18:30, GEORGE SQUARE ---- Thessaloniki: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 18:30, STATUE OF VENIZELOS ---- September 21, 2018: Zak Costopoulos
is murdered at noon in the center of Athens, in Omonia. Trapped inside a jewelry store where he has taken refuge, while a little earlier he
was shouting "help" in the street, he is lynched by the shop owner and a fascist who maintains a real estate office in the area. The two of
them kick him furiously in the head, while he is trying helplessly to free himself, while a crowd is around them. The police arrive to
complete the crime - they hit him covered in blood and fell to the ground, arrested him, handcuffed him and dragged him to the street. He is
taken to the hospital tied up and dead.
In Jacques' face they see a poor, excluded, outcast, a user, a potential thief - a life that the state capitalist and patriarchal system
repeatedly prescribes as a "threat" to order and security, a life that costs it negligibly , which methodically legitimizes its
extermination. Zack's killers do not hesitate to try him and sentence him to death "by taking the law into their own hands", moving within
the framework of the dominant orders as parastatal lackeys - a thief-pawnbroker who feeds on the despair of others, a declared fascist and
the uniformed murderers and torturers of ELAS.
Because the violence they committed has the cover of official law, the support of the institutional barbarism of the regime: the
demonization of poverty, the hunting and punishment of the weak in the class and social hierarchy, the sanctity of property, so as to
safeguard its interests domination and its social reproduction. And it is this violence organized from above by the Power that allows them
to kill intimidated, because they move within the framework of the dominant orders as parastatal lackeys.
It is the state-capitalist-patriarchal system itself that targets those who resist and those who characterize surplus populations in the
time of its deep crisis, suppressing, cultivating fear and promoting social emphasis: racist pogroms under the guise of covering the police
of Shajhat Lukman and Pavlos Fyssas by the Golden Dawn Nazis, concentration camps and drowning of immigrants and refugees at the border,
deaths of prisoners in prisons and police stations, workers in the ranks of mercenary slavery, deportation and confinement of women,
deportation and confinement , launching a repressive campaign against the anarchists and those who are fighting in general,cooperation with
all kinds of mafias and drug mafias at the same time with the policies of impoverishment and repression of users.
The completion of the two years since the assassination of Jacques, in view of the beginning of the trial of his murderers, which is
scheduled for October 21, comes in an environment of outbreak of the covid19 pandemic and intensification of state and capitalist attack on
society. From the beginning of a new round of looting of the social base with the main peaks being the further devaluation of labor, the
practical abolition of social security, the continuation of privatizations, to the restructuring of the education system and the
criminalization of trade union action. From the perpetuation of the Emergency Regime through the suppression and subjugation of the social
and class movements and especially of the anarchist-anti-authoritarians, the evacuations of occupied areas of struggle, the police
occupation of entire areas until the prohibition of demonstrations and the general upgrade of the legal arsenal to the detriment of
militants. From the escalation of the war against refugees and immigrants, the attempt to demonize them, their disappearance from the public
sphere, their confinement in concentration camps to the looting of the physical world through the activation of the machines of capitalist
development that will destroy local societies, mountains, rivers, seas, lakes, forests in the name of profit and full enforcement on man and
nature.
State repression is today a dominant component of state strategy. This military operation against those who are fighting is part of the
decades-long systematic effort on the part of the Greek state to subdue social and class resistance and impose submission.
Zak's killers, the police, the judiciary, the media who rushed to cover up and justify the murder, constructing consensus, misinforming,
presenting him as dangerous, dogging his life and identity as an HIV-positive member of the LGBTQI community activists, as well as those who
applaud the authoritarian barbarism, identifying with the interests of the powerful, in fact represent what the most anti-social has to do
with the decay of the world of Power.
On the other hand, the thousands who protested against Jacques's assassination, demanding visibility in public and blocking cannibalistic
rhetoric, those who in any way refuse to consent and submit to the prevailing project of social cannibalism in the cannibalistic world. to
defend what belongs to them, all those who demonstrated in Chania and Thessaloniki for the repressive attacks of the state against the
squatters, all those who, in defiance of the checks, rebuild libertatia 3 years after its arson by the fascists, all those who put up
embankments in state repression and fight against the regime of exploitation and subjugation, represent the most promising thing this
society has to show: solidarity, rebellion,the prospect of a social revolution, for a world that will fit many worlds.
As anarchists we fight for the intensification of social and class resistance, with the aim of overthrowing the political and economic
bosses responsible for exploitation, oppression, poverty, misery, social cannibalism. With our weapon of solidarity, we stand against false
divisions and the fear that power constantly reproduces. We are fighting to overcome the imposed way of organizing society by the state and
capital.
FOR THE CREATION OF A SOCIETY OF EQUALITY, SOLIDARITY, FREEDOM
FOR THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND FREEDOM COMMUNISM
Anarchist Political Organization / Federation of Collectivities
apo.squathost.com | anpolorg@gmail.com
http://apo.squathost.com/anakinosi-ke-kalesmata-tis-a-p-o-stis-pories-gia-ton-ena-chrono-apo-ti-dolofonia-tou-zak/
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