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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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(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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(en) France, Police violence: Move along, nothing to see! (fr) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Fri Feb 03 07:13:52 GMT 2012
On 10 January, Wissam el Yamni die from cardiac arrest occurred during of a police beating
in good standing during the night of New Year. Ten days later, at Aulnay, Abdel el Jabri
also succumbed to cardiac arrest after crossing the path of police. Two names in addition
to the long list of victims of police violence. If the historian Maurice Rajfus counting
nearly 200 deaths between 1977 and 2001, their number has since continued to increase:
---- Abou Bakari Tandia, Zyed Benna, Bouna Traoré, Reda Semmoudi, Yakou Sanogo Lamine
Dieng ... - Business and are very similar. ---- It is no longer acceptable to speak of
blunders when he is clear of assault and even murder which is racially motivated easy to
prove. The killings are in fact only the tip of the iceberg: in the shadows are discovered
daily humiliations controls racial profiling, police custody, the insults and the
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(en) Britain, Freedom* December 2011 - REHABILITATION REVOLUTION?
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Fri Feb 03 07:07:55 GMT 2012
Well, it appears that the tail has finally been pinned on the ‘Rehabilitation Revolution’
donkey with the publishing of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill
and all the in-fighting surrounding what would and would not be included in its final
draft. And lo, it has come to pass that many of us have been right all along and the
so-called revolution has been nothing less than the reordering of deckchairs on the
penological Titanic. ---- So, far from being radical in any of the myriad senses of the
word, some that even a conservative can apparently lay claim to, it turned out to be
largely slanted towards increasing the lengths of sentences rather than as Clarke had
previously stated, cutting the numbers of prisoners. Having initially pledged that he
would slow the increase in prison numbers and cut the population by 3000 by the end of
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(en) Ireland, Report from 40th anniversary of Bloody Sunday March by Sean Matthews & Sean Dubh
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Feb 02 12:40:21 GMT 2012
Despite the opposition of the governing SInn Fein party, relatives of families of the
victims of Bloody Sunday and political supporters, including Irish anarchists, marched in
remembrance last Saturday. A report from the anarchists present and a background to the
issues behind those determined to continue the annual commemoration. ---- A few thousand
people took part in the 40th anniversary Bloody Sunday march demanding real truth and
justice after the publishing of the Saville report this year which confirmed that the
massacre was ’unjustifiable and unjustified.’ ---- This years march clearly divided the
families and relatives of the Bloody Sunday Trust with the majority deciding to end the
march with some pressure being concerted by Sinn Fein. Despite attempts by the political
class to co-opt and de-radicalise the march and brush it under the carpet as part of the
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(en) US, OAKLAND, California, MEDIA, Occupy movement split over confrontational tactics
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Feb 02 11:53:07 GMT 2012
When anti-Wall Street protesters set out to take over Oakland's shuttered convention
center on Saturday, they left no doubt about the reception they expected. Scores concealed
their faces with bandanas, and dozens carried shields, some painted with anarchist
symbols. ---- What happened next -- a 10-hour street battle in which demonstrators and
police pelted each other with tear gas canisters, smoke grenades and other projectiles --
has intensified a debate within the Occupy Wall Street movement over what forms of
confrontation it should embrace. ---- Activists calling for greater equality in income and
tighter regulation of financial institutions have clashed with police across the country
since September, usually while advocating non-violence. But a series of conflicts with
police in Oakland have stood out as the most violent, with one activist, Iraq war veteran
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