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(nl) Ierland, WSM* Workers Solidarity 125, Jan/Feb
a-infos-nl@ainfos.ca
Sat Feb 04 20:22:13 GMT 2012
Het idee van directe actie wordt soms niet begrepen en wordt dan omschreven als alles wat
gewelddadig is, alles van een steen door een ruit tot een grootschalige guerilla oorlog.
Onze politieke tegenstanders doen hun best om verwarring te zaaien, omdat ze weten dat ze
in een "strijd van ideeen" zouden verliezen. Dat is waarom ze het anarchisme afschilderen
als een krankzinnig systeem van chaos en desorganisatie. ---- Toen de frase 'directe
actie' aan het einde van de negentiende eeuw voor het eerst werd gebruikt betekende het
niets meer dan het tegenovergestelde van het proberen verandering te bereiken door te
vertrouwen op 'betere' politici. In de context van het moderne vakbondswezen betekent het
industriele actie gebruiken - stakingen, werken om te heersen, bezettingen - in plaats van
te vertrouwen op de zogenaamd onpartijdige Labour Court, Rights Commissioners en bemiddelaars.
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(en) US, Phoenix Anarchists: Attention Arizona Public Employees: Cops, Teachers and Paper Pushers Under Attack by the Anti-Union Bill 1485
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sat Feb 04 15:05:14 GMT 2012
Some Real Talk from Anarchists on How To Win This Fight ---- Seemingly out of nowhere a
new front opens up in the battle to institute austerity from the bottom up in the United
States and that front is Arizona. That’s not so surprising as the Republicans stated
themselves from the get go that Arizona just makes sense due to the overwhelming
anti-union legislature. Lets accept the new reality, Senate Bill 1485 will pass if nothing
is done. ---- As if quoting from the classic novel “1984”, Republican Lori Klein
characterized the bill as a “way of giving them more freedom so there can be flexibility.”
---- But make no mistake, this is a direct attack on workers in Arizona and if nothing is
done to stop it, it will be modeled across the United States as the crisis we all face
gets worse. In order for this kind of legislation to pass in Wisconsin, an exception had
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(gr) Χιλιάδες Κεφάλια Πρέπει Να Σηκωθούν - Κείμενο Α.Κ.Α. για 4/2
a-infos-gr@ainfos.ca
Sat Feb 04 11:10:57 GMT 2012
Είναι πλέον εμφανές σε όλους, ακόμα και στους πιο αφελείς ή δύσπιστους
ανάμεσα μας ότι η κατάσταση δεν πάει άλλο. --- Το φάσμα της πείνας είναι
εδώ, όπως δείχνουν οι ουρές στα συσσίτια· οι προοπτικές ανύπαρκτες όπως
αποδεικνύουν οι λίστες των υποψηφίων προς μετανάστευση· η κοινωνική
αδικία και ανισότητα πιο έντονες από ποτέ, όπως φαίνεται από την
αντιπαραβολή των παραπάνω με τις εικόνες των γκαλά και δεξιώσεων που
προβάλονται στα κοσμικά. --- Οι τράπεζες σώζονται πανυγηρικά με το πρώτο
σκίρτημα του χρηματιστηριακού δείκτη, οι εφοπλιστές καλύτεροι πελάτες
των τραπεζών της Ελβετίας συνεχίζουν απτόητοι να μεγαλώνουν τους στόλους
τους και η πάλαι ποτέ παντοδύναμη Ευρώπη του ευρώ βουλιάζει σε πανικό.
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(en) Ireland, WSM*.ie, Announcement: Dublin march and Protest Against SOPA and ACTA - Sat 4th Feb
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sat Feb 04 11:02:23 GMT 2012
On Saturday the 4th of February, there is a protest against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act)
and ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) legislation being implemented. People will
meet at 1:00pm at the Gardens of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin. ---- Both pieces of
legislation are highly controversial and authoritarian in nature, and if implemented
successfully, will have devastating effects on the Internet as we know it. ---- Corporate
superpowers and rich governments have joined forces to push through this legislation,
giving the hundreds of millions of internet users around the world absolutely no say in
the matter. ---- In the name of copyright protection, our every move online could become
monitored. Forget about streaming music, downloading films or watching videos on youtube.
If this legislation is pushed through successfully there will be hefty fines, perhaps even
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(en) Australia, Melbourne Anarchist Club: Sedition Publication Launch 25/2, Mac Library Online, Film Screening "Over the Edge"
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sat Feb 04 10:59:26 GMT 2012
Mac Library Online ---- Currently: http://maclibrary.hopto.org/ ---- It has been a
monumental effort from our library working group and resident computer-wiz kids to make
this happen. Thanks as well to the people who came and helped out at the few library
working-bees, entering the texts onto the digital system. There's still a lot of work to
do in that regard, and I'm sure there will be more working-bees in the future. Meanwhile,
take a browse of the material, and if something takes your fancy come in on Sunday between
11am-5pm and take a look. ---- Friday Music Night: Seventies Maxxed This Friday 3/2 from
8pm @ Mac ---- Music nights are Mac is a running fundraiser for the group. Tomorrow night
the theme is Seventies Maxxed! ---- Propaganda Working Group ---- 3pm Sunday 5/2 (usually
2nd Sunday of each month) @ Mac
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(en) France, Summary of World Libertarian # 1656 of January 19 to 25, 2012 + (fr) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sat Feb 04 09:15:57 GMT 2012
"The bosses are like pigs, it deserves a flock of pellets." The Sales Majesties *****
Contents ---- Unionism in the viewfinder, by G. Drop, page 3 **** Football housing, by E.
Vanhecke, page 4 * Weather union, T. Impetuous, page 5 ** Chronic nephritis, page 5 ** In
brief, the strip, page 6 **** News from the front office, by Hugh, page 7 *** Freedom for
defendants in Toulouse, J. Rackham, page 8 **** Action against the CRA in Bordeaux, by FA
33, page 10 ** Arguments ** States places of scops, by Daniel on page 12 ** International
** Turkish creationism, Mr. Silberstein, page 14 **** Hungary threatened by fascism, by J.
Rackham, page 15 **** Expression **** Boris Vian, the gentle anarchist, AZ and Inana, page
16 **** Culture **** About freedom refractory Annick Stevens, page 19 **** Music and
political awakening, by Thierry, page 20 **** Gay skinheads, page 20 *** Movement **** If
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(en) Britain, Freedom* January 2012 - GO OUT AND GET ‘EM – 2012
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sat Feb 04 08:58:11 GMT 2012
Are we going to make predictions about 2012? Certainly a degree of bravado and bluster is
always necessary for someone to step up to the soapbox and preach the bleeding obvious
about what is ahead of us, and the anarchist movement is littered with discarded
soapboxes. Do we even dare to imagine what responses the deepening crisis will bring? --
We continue to live through an intense period of social transformation, one that is at
times chaotic and unpredictable, but one that is also unique and open to all kinds of
influences and new expectations. Where does capitalism go now, and what do we do to aid
its downfall? Two questions we couldn’t have imagined posing five years ago and here they
are, as we take hold of 2012, presenting themselves as real challenges.
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(en) Anarkismo.net: Mexico, David Venegas Reyes freed! (ca, fr)
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sat Feb 04 08:57:46 GMT 2012
Yesterday afternoon (31-2-12), David Venegas Reyes, a member of the Oaxacan collective
Oaxaca Voces Oaxaqueñas Construyendo Autonomía y Libertad (VOCAL) was finally freed.
According to information supplied by the legal department of Section 22, the release took
place without the payment of any bail and without any charges being made since Venegas
Reyes was released following confirmation that he had not committed any crime for which he
could have been arrested. ---- It should be remembered that the arrest of Venegas Reyes
came about in very unclear circumstances while he was accompanying the women's caravan
which had begun its return to San Juan Copala. This is thus the beginning of the end for
the media and State lynch-mob campaign against those who were accompanying the caravan on
its return to San Juan Copala.
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(tr) [Medya] Anarşist bir duruş olarak 'vicdani ret'
a-infos-tr@ainfos.ca
Fri Feb 03 12:44:57 GMT 2012
Anarşist bir duruş olarak 'vicdani ret'
03 Şubat 2012 YETİŞ PAYÇU
Türkiye'de henüz hukuksal olarak tanınmayan vicdani ret için başta
savaş karşıtları olmak üzere çeşitli grupların çalışmaları sürüyor.
Vicdani ret ile ilgili olarak 11. 12. 2009'da Anayasa Mahkemesi'nin
kararıyla kapatılan Demokratik Toplum Partisi (DTP) 13 Kasım 2008'de
TBMM'ye yasa önerisi verdi. DTP Diyarbakır Milletvekili Akın Birdal,
dünyanın pek çok ülkesinde vicdani reddin tanındığını belirterek,
rakamlara göre 1 milyon gencin çeşitli gerekçelerle askerlikten uzak
olduğunu ve bunlara vicdani ret hakkının tanınması gerektiğini
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