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iberia / history of anarchism / review Friday September 05, 2014 17:49 byEdward McKenna
A review of Agustin Guillamon's "Ready for Revolution" on the Spanish anarchist defence committees, assessing its relevance to today's revolutionaries. read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / community struggles / opinion / analysis Thursday September 04, 2014 15:10 byLucky Sumione
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Residents in Khutsong location were neglected by the police many times, and that is why they ended up taking the law into their own hands in late 2013. read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / history / opinion / analysis Wednesday September 03, 2014 16:34 byJonathan Payn
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The United Front tactic – aimed at uniting masses of workers in action and winning Communist leadership for the working class – was adopted as policy by the Communist International (Comintern) in 1921 and will be discussed later in this series. However, there are important examples of working class unity in action which predate Comintern policy and bear relevance to the united fronts discussion. One often-cited example is the united front to defend the gains of the February Revolution from a military coup in Russia in 1917, which will be discussed in the next article in this series. Before looking at this, however, there is another example of proletarian unity in action – that didn’t seek to win Communist leadership – which warrants attention; that of a revolutionary worker-peasant alliance. This conception of united front action found expression in Italy’s anti-militarist “red blocs” and it is to these that we now turn. • Part 1: NUMSA and the ‘United Front Against Neoliberalism’ read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / the left / opinion / analysis Wednesday September 03, 2014 16:26 byJonathan Payn
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The resolution adopted by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) to form a ‘United Front against neoliberalism’ – as well as its decision not to endorse the ANC in the elections – represents an interesting development in the political landscape, one which activists should look at carefully and engage. Due to the language used by the media, the Left, NUMSA’s critics and even NUMSA itself much confusion surrounds the debate – leaving many questions: Is the ‘United Front’ an organisation or attempt to build a new labour federation or political party? Is it an attempt to revive the 1980s United Democratic Front (UDF)? Why NUMSA’s sudden interest in community struggles? This series, of which this article is the first, aims to clarify these and other questions by looking at the proposal and history of united fronts locally and internationally to clarify key issues and draw lessons that activists can use when engaging the pros and cons of NUMSA’s United Front proposal and if and how they think it should be developed. • Part 2: Anti-militarist United Fronts and Italy’s “Red week”, 1914 read full story / add a comment 
mashrek / arabia / irak / lotte sul territorio / opinione / analisi Wednesday September 03, 2014 14:34 byZaher Baher
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Ciò che leggerete di seguito è l'esperienza della mia visita di un paio di settimane nel maggio di quest'anno, 2014, nel Nord Est della Siria o Kurdistan siriano (Ovest del Kurdistan) con un mio caro amico. Durante la visita abbiamo avuto piena libertà e l'opportunità di vedere e di parlare con chiunque. Incluse donne, uomini, giovani e partiti politici. Ci sono più di 20 partiti dai curdi ai cristiani, alcuni sono nell'Auto Amministrazione Democratica (DSA) o Autogestione Democratica (DSM) della regione di Al-Jazera. Al-Jazera è una delle tre regioni (cantoni) del Kurdistan dell'Ovest. Abbiamo incontrato anche i partiti politici curdi e cristiani che non fanno parte della DSA o della DSM. Inoltre abbiamo incontrato i vertici della DSM, membri di diversi comitati, gruppi locali e comuni così come uomini d'affari, negozianti, lavoratori, persone al mercato e gente che semplicemente camminava per strada. [English] read full story / add a comment 
venezuela / colombia / miscellaneous / opinión / análisis Wednesday September 03, 2014 05:46 byJosé Antonio Gutiérrez D.
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Transcripción de una columna de opinión originalmente transmitida por Contagio Radio, http://bit.ly/1qxooWP read full story / add a comment 
bolivia / peru / ecuador / chile / historia del anarquismo / policy statement Monday September 01, 2014 22:05 byMario Celis
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El Congreso de Unificación Anarco-Comunista de Chile (C.U.A.C.) nació en Noviembre de 1999, como parte de un amplio proceso de convergencia de anarquistas en Santiago, que teníamos por común un acuerdo en que la organización debía ir más allá de los tradicionales grupos de afinidad, una convicción del anarquismo como una doctrina clasista y revolucionaria, y la necesidad de que el anarquismo se hiciera carne en las luchas populares. Hasta finales del 2000, fue el período en el que se definió quienes tenían un compromiso real con el proyecto, se ganó en los primeros pasos prácticos para dar vida a este proyecto y hubo aprendizajes enormes al compartir la expriencia colectiva que íbamos generando. En ese sentido, la organización funcionó como un congreso permanente de reflexión, discusión y definiciones políticas.
Como fruto de ese proceso, se comenzó a debatir qué significaba pasar de los contactos entre colectivos a una organización unitaria, y sobre la necesidad de cualificar nuestra práctica. Hasta ese momento en la organización existían algunos cargos en la asamblea, que se reunía semanalmente en el local sindical de FETRACOMA. También existían comisiones que velaban por ciertos aspectos temáticos del desarrollo de nuestro proyecto libertario. En la práctica, se llegaron a implementar tres: cultura, educación y propaganda, aunque en teoría, también se había pensado en una para temas poblacionales, sindicales y estudiantiles. En cierta medida, estas comisiones funcionaban como colectivos al interior de la organización, que todavía no lograba cuajar en un proyecto colectivo y orgánico. El 2000 también se forma el colectivo "Oveja Negra" en la Universidad de Chile, que pese a estar en un espacio estudiantil, funcionaba como un grupo de afinidad articulado solamente en función de lo ideológico. No lográbamos salir de la concepción del colectivo. Ya habíamos empezado a discutir sobre la necesidad de integrar el trabajo político a través de la creación de "frentes", pero este concepto aún no se terminaba de asimilar ni de entender mediante conceptos comprendidos por todos.
Este documento, desarrollado por Mario Celis en base a una serie de discusiones en la comisión de propaganda, fue un catalizador del debate que veníamos dando en torno a la necesidad de re-estructurarnos para enfrentar los desafíos que teníamos por delante y alcanzar la mayoría de edad como movimiento. Este documento no fue aceptado en su cabalidad por la organización, hubo fuertes debates (particularmente en la concepción de frentes, ya que un sector planteábamos que los frentes debían ser desarrollados a partir de una base clasista asentada en los sujetos populares, y no desde una perspectiva comunalista asentada en el concepto de ciudadanía), pero fue un documento clave para empezar un debate necesario y sobretodo, con él ganamos en claridad conceptual. Este documento representa un importante salto cualitativo para el anarquismo criollo y el momento de una toma de conciencia de que podíamos aspirar a muchísimo más, como movimiento, que hacer propaganda, contra-cultura o formar colectivos. Creo importante difundir este documento, no solamente como una parte importante de la historia del anarquismo en Chile, sino como un documento que aún hoy tiene bastante que entregar al debate por levantar un proyecto libertario.
José Antonio Gutiérrez D. 1 de Septiembre, 2014 read full story / add a comment 
Ιβηρική / Αναρχική Ιστορία / Συνέντευξη Monday September 01, 2014 20:14 byDmitri (republishing)
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Η Martha Ackelsberg είναι καθηγήτρια κοινωνιολογίας, με ειδίκευση στα κινήματα γυναικείας χειραφέτησης. Ζει και εργάζεται στην Αμερική. Είναι συγγραφέας του βιβλίου «Οι Ελεύθερες Γυναίκες της Ισπανίας», της ιστορίας της αναρχικής οργάνωσης γυναικών «Mujeres Libres» (Ελεύθερες Γυναίκες) -που έδρασε στην Ισπανία από το 1934 και κατά τη διάρκεια της Κοινωνικής Επανάστασης στην Ισπανία(1936-1939)-, όπως αυτή καταγράφεται από τις μαρτυρίες των αγωνιστριών που επέζησαν τη νίκη του φασισμού και τη δικτατορία του Φράνκο. Η συνέντευξη της συγγραφέως που παρουσιάζεται εδώ, βρίσκεται στο τέλος του βιβλίου. Δόθηκε στον Geert Dhondt τον Απρίλιο του 2004 και δημοσιεύτηκε στο αναρχικό περιοδικό Up The Ante! . To βιβλίο μπορείτε να το κατεβάσετε στα Αγγλικά από ΕΔΩ read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / anarchist movement / press release Monday September 01, 2014 16:03 byNobyhle Dube
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Comrade Lawrence was born on 7 July 1969 in Kliptown before moving to Ceza in KwaZulu-Natal. He attended Ceza Primary and Nghunghunyone Secondary, matriculating in 1986 with exemption (excellent at that time). read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / anarchist movement / link to pdf Monday September 01, 2014 15:40 byTokologo African Anarchist Collective
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Welcome to issue 3 of “Tokologo,” produced by members of the Tokologo African Anarchist Collective, based in Gauteng, South Africa. Our members come from Johannesburg, Khutsong, Sebokeng, and Soweto; we are committed to the fight for the full freedom of the working class and poor, in South Africa and abroad. We do not want privatisation (capitalist ownership), we do not want nationalisation (state ownership), we want self-management and socialisation (community/ worker ownership), of land and all other productive resources. read full story / add a comment
américa central / caribe / movimiento anarquista / comunicado de prensa Monday September 01, 2014 08:31 byTaller Libertario Alfredo López
Para ello proponemos la realización en marzo de 2015 en la región dominicana del primer encuentro constitutivo de la F.A.C.-C. [Centroamérica] (nombre provisional) de individualidades y “delegados” de colectivos ácratas en la región, que sea el punto de cierre inicial para confrontarse y coordinar acciones, ideas e insumos, a partir de los ejes temáticos que emerjan de los colectivos en cada localidad. [English] read full story / add a comment
américa central / caribe / movimiento anarquista / opinión / análisis Monday September 01, 2014 08:12 byTALLER LIBERTARIO ALFREDO LÓPEZ
Hace unos días en la primera semana de agosto los medios de fabricación masiva de opiniones en Cuba, en manos de la Seguridad del Estado, el Buró Político, y los Departamento Ideológico del MINFAR y el MININT, nos han regalado un nuevo capítulo de la historia de sus hazañas laborales, en el combate directo a las operaciones de subversión del gobierno yanqui. read full story / add a comment
central america / caribbean / anarchist movement / press release Monday September 01, 2014 08:10 byTaller Libertario Alfredo Lopez
For all this we propose a constitutive meeting of the F.A.C.-C [-Central American] (Caribbean and Central American Anarchist Federation) in the Dominican Republic in March of 2015. We call individuals and “delegates” of anarchist collectives in the region to join us in this meeting that will be an initial decisive moment to compare and coordinate actions, ideas and supplies based on the topics/themes that would emerge from each collective according to their location. [Castellano] read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / community struggles / feature Monday September 01, 2014 04:07 byZaher Baher
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What you read below is the experience of my visit, for a couple of weeks in May this year, 2014, to North East of Syria or Syrian Kurdistan (West of Kurdistan) with a close friend of mine. Throughout the visit we had the total freedom and opportunity to see and speak to whoever we wanted to. This includes women, men, youth, and the political parties. There are over 20 parties from Kurdish to Christian, of which some are in the Democratic Self Administration (DSA) or Democratic Self Management (DSM) of the region of Al Jazera. Al Jazera is one of three regions, (cantons) of West Kurdistan. We also met the Kurdish and Christian political parties who are not in the DSA or DSM. In addition, we met the top people from the Democratic Self Administration (DSM), members of the different committees, local groups and communes as well as businesspeople, shopkeepers, workers, people in the market and people who were just walking in the street. [Italiano] read full story / add a comment 
russia / ucraina / bielorussia / imperialismo / guerra / opinione / analisi Sunday August 31, 2014 15:36 byTřídní válka
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Quando alcuni mesi fa scrivemmo "Preparativi di guerra in Ucraina e Russia: realtà o show?" intendendo dire che stavano maturando le condizioni per un nuova guerra, molti compagni espressero dubbi o anche disaccordo verso un comunicato così categorico. Ora possiamo dire che il conflitto in Ucraina è chiaramente passato dalla fase "fredda" a quella "calda" e che ciò di cui siamo testimoni nell'est del paese è proprio guerra in tutti i sensi. [Čeština] read full story / add a comment 
internazionale / lotte indigene / comunicato stampa Sunday August 31, 2014 15:18 bycommission international
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Alla società civile nazionale ed internazionale, Alla Sesta nazionale ed internazionale, Ai media liberi, autonomi ed indipendenti, Alle amministrazioni del buon governo, All' EZLN, Alle basi di appoggio dell'EZLN [Castellano] read full story / add a comment 
italia / svizzera / economia / opinione / analisi Saturday August 30, 2014 20:12 byToni Iero
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Il peggio è ormai passato. È una frase che sento ripetere dall’autunno del 2007, qualche mese dopo l’estate in cui la caduta delle quotazioni azionarie di Wall Street segnava la fine della bolla immobiliare americana e l’inizio della peggiore crisi economica dopo quella degli anni ’30 del secolo scorso. Davvero c’è una luce in fondo al tunnel? Per formarsi un’opinione motivata, è opportuno comprendere le diverse dinamiche che caratterizzano i mercati finanziari e il sistema produttivo. read full story / add a comment 
Διεθνή / Αναρχικό κίνημα / Γνώμη / Ανάλυση Saturday August 30, 2014 19:42 byΕλιζέ Ρεκλύ
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Από το 21ο τεύχος του περιοδικού Ευτοπία - μετάφραση: Τατιάνα Τζαναβάρα * Το άρθρο αυτό με τίτλο ''An Anarchist on Anarchy'' δημοσιεύτηκε πρώτη φορά στο περιοδικό Contemporary Review (τ. 45, 1884, Ιανουάριος/Ιούνιος). read full story / add a comment 
brazil/guyana/suriname/fguiana / economia / opinião / análise Saturday August 30, 2014 10:06 byBrunoL
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Bruno Lima Rocha, 28 de agosto de 2014 No meio da corrida eleitoral de 1º turno, onde a 7ª economia do mundo vai decidir seu destino consultando a vontade e desinformação da 79ª sociedade mundial em índice de IDH, é preciso fazer uma série de reflexões. Para tal, precisamos ir além da denúncia do esvaziamento da democracia em sua versão liberal e indireta. Entendo que vivemos um problema estruturante, que tem relação direta com dois fenômenos. O primeiro passa pela individualização do cotidiano, com tarefas que se multiplicam e tempos esgotados. O capitalismo em sua era informacional não dá tempo hábil para a vida coletiva e menos ainda para as experiências políticas massivas. Quando isto ocorre, temos uma “crise”, como em junho de 2013. Saudável “crise” por sinal. read full story / add a comment 
brazil/guyana/suriname/fguiana / economía / opinión / análisis Friday August 29, 2014 22:37 byBrunoL
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Bruno Lima Rocha* En este texto compilo los análisis que publiqué en las redes sociales que a su vez son una compilación de entrevistas y participaciones en los medios comerciales brasileros que vengo realizando luego del anuncio del desastre aéreo y el consecuente fallecimiento de Eduardo Campos, ex gobernador del Estado de Pernambuco y candidato a presidente por el Partido Socialista Brasilero hasta el suceso que además hizo víctimas a su comitiva y a la tripulación de la aeronave. El accidente ocurrió en la ciudad de Santos, litoral del Estado de San Pablo el 13 de agosto de 2014. Nadie esperaba nada parecido. Su candidata a vicepresidente, Marina Silva es neopentecostal y ex ministra de Medio Ambiente de Lula. Dejó el gobierno en 2010 y en las elecciones presidenciales de ese año se enfrentó a Dilma Rousseff y alcanzó la tercera posición con más de veinte millones de votos. Ahora, como candidata a presidente del PSB, partido que era parte de la base del gobierno central hasta el fin de 2013, representa una preferencia de votos como alternativa al lulismo. Vale una observación con tono de autocrítica, nunca anticipamos un escenario con el abandono de algún candidato, ni menos a partir de un desastre como éste. Todo analista debería tener este escenario en cuenta, aunque con menores posibilidades. read full story / add a comment |
 Front pageThe experiment of West Kurdistan (Syrian Kurdistan) has proved that people can make changes [Chile] EL FTEM promueve una serie de “jornadas de debate sindical” Ukraine: Interview with a Donetsk anarchist Prisões e mais criminalização marcam o final da Copa do Mundo no Brasil هەڵوێستی سەربەخۆی جەماوەر لە نێوان داعش و & Contra a Copa e a Repressão: Somente a Luta e Organização! Nota Pública de soldariedade e denúncia Uruguay, ante la represión y el abuso policial To vote or not to vote: Should it be a question? Mayday: Building A New Workers Movement Anarchist and international solidarity against Russian State repression Argentina: Atentado y Amenazas contra militantes sociales de la FOB en Rosario, Santa Fe Réponses anarchistes à la crise écologique A verdadeira face da violência! Face à l’antisémitisme, pour l’autodéfense Reflexiones en torno a los libertarios en Chile y la participación electoral Mandela, the ANC and the 1994 Breakthrough: Anarchist / syndicalist reflections Melissa Sepúlveda "Uno de los desafíos más importantes es mostrarnos como una alternativa real" Sat 06 Sep, 00:03
Comrade Lawrence was born on 7 July 1969 in Kliptown before moving to Ceza in KwaZulu-Natal. He attended Ceza Primary and Nghunghunyone Secondary, matriculating in 1986 with exemption (excellent at that time).
Para ello proponemos la realización en marzo de 2015 en la región dominicana del primer encuentro constitutivo de la F.A.C.-C. [Centroamérica] (nombre provisional) de individualidades y “delegados” de colectivos ácratas en la región, que sea el punto de cierre inicial para confrontarse y coordinar acciones, ideas e insumos, a partir de los ejes temáticos que emerjan de los colectivos en cada localidad. [English]
For all this we propose a constitutive meeting of the F.A.C.-C [-Central American] (Caribbean and Central American Anarchist Federation) in the Dominican Republic in March of 2015. We call individuals and “delegates” of anarchist collectives in the region to join us in this meeting that will be an initial decisive moment to compare and coordinate actions, ideas and supplies based on the topics/themes that would emerge from each collective according to their location. [Castellano] Alla società civile nazionale ed internazionale, To National and International Civil Society, A la Sociedad Civil Nacional e Internacional, A la Société Civile Nationale et Internationale,
La guerra di Israele su Gaza intendeva indebolire Hamas ma renderlo indipendente dall'Autorità in Cisgiordania. Un mese e mezzo è passato ed Israele non riesce a fermare il lancio di razzi di Hamas su Israele. Hamas ha chiesto ad alta voce la rimozione dell'assedio ed il primo ministro israeliano non ha avuto l'appoggio necessario dalla sua coalizione per il necessario compromesso. Per diminuire le perdite e per salvare la faccia Israele con il sostegno degli USA stanno ora delegando la questione a quel Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'ONU di cui Israele non si è curato per molti anni. [English]
The war Israel started with the Hamas was intended to keep it weaker but independent of the west bank authority. A month and a half and Israel cannot stop the Hamas firing of rockets on Israel. The Hamas raised its demand about the lifting of the siege (closer) and the Israeli prime minister failed go get the support of his coalition for the needed compromise. To diminish the losses and to save face Israel with US backing are passing the decision to the UN security council the Israeli ruling elite evaded successfully so many years. The mounting economic pressures create cracks in the Israeli ruling elite and even the populist coalition party head - the foreign minister, start to promote the end of the 1967 occupation. And the joint popular grass root struggle continue - within Israel at the Arkib Bedouins as focus, Bil'in, Ma'asara, Neby Saleh, Ni'ilin, Qaddum, Sheikh Jarrah, South Hebron Hills. [Italiano] This is as complete a story about what happened to 'Migrant X' that we are aware of. Migrant X is a young migrant women who it emerged was refused an abortion by the Irish state despite apparently meeting the grounds of the X-case legislation and instead forced to carry the pregnancy and agree to a C-section. The pregnanacy itself was the result of rape, Migrant X attempted suicide after being refused the abortion and later went on a hunger and thirst strike. Once what had happened to her became known there were sizeable pro-choice solidarity demonstrations called across Ireland and at Irish embassies overseas. We have been given information that the migrant woman at the centre of the current forced pregnancy was 'committed' to a psychiatric hospital following her initial request for termination. It’s already known that the initial request was made when she was 8 weeks pregnant. It was this crucial period in which she was being held incommunicado which led directly to the Caesarian option being possible to impose as an ‘alternative’ to allowing her to access the abortion she had asked for. more >>
Residents in Khutsong location were neglected by the police many times, and that is why they ended up taking the law into their own hands in late 2013.
The United Front tactic – aimed at uniting masses of workers in action and winning Communist leadership for the working class – was adopted as policy by the Communist International (Comintern) in 1921 and will be discussed later in this series. However, there are important examples of working class unity in action which predate Comintern policy and bear relevance to the united fronts discussion. One often-cited example is the united front to defend the gains of the February Revolution from a military coup in Russia in 1917, which will be discussed in the next article in this series.
The resolution adopted by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) to form a ‘United Front against neoliberalism’ – as well as its decision not to endorse the ANC in the elections – represents an interesting development in the political landscape, one which activists should look at carefully and engage.
Ciò che leggerete di seguito è l'esperienza della mia visita di un paio di settimane nel maggio di quest'anno, 2014, nel Nord Est della Siria o Kurdistan siriano (Ovest del Kurdistan) con un mio caro amico. Durante la visita abbiamo avuto piena libertà e l'opportunità di vedere e di parlare con chiunque. Incluse donne, uomini, giovani e partiti politici. Ci sono più di 20 partiti dai curdi ai cristiani, alcuni sono nell'Auto Amministrazione Democratica (DSA) o Autogestione Democratica (DSM) della regione di Al-Jazera. Al-Jazera è una delle tre regioni (cantoni) del Kurdistan dell'Ovest. Abbiamo incontrato anche i partiti politici curdi e cristiani che non fanno parte della DSA o della DSM. Inoltre abbiamo incontrato i vertici della DSM, membri di diversi comitati, gruppi locali e comuni così come uomini d'affari, negozianti, lavoratori, persone al mercato e gente che semplicemente camminava per strada. [English]
Transcripción de una columna de opinión originalmente transmitida por Contagio Radio, http://bit.ly/1qxooWP more >>
Comrade Lawrence was born on 7 July 1969 in Kliptown before moving to Ceza in KwaZulu-Natal. He attended Ceza Primary and Nghunghunyone Secondary, matriculating in 1986 with exemption (excellent at that time).
Para ello proponemos la realización en marzo de 2015 en la región dominicana del primer encuentro constitutivo de la F.A.C.-C. [Centroamérica] (nombre provisional) de individualidades y “delegados” de colectivos ácratas en la región, que sea el punto de cierre inicial para confrontarse y coordinar acciones, ideas e insumos, a partir de los ejes temáticos que emerjan de los colectivos en cada localidad. [English]
For all this we propose a constitutive meeting of the F.A.C.-C [-Central American] (Caribbean and Central American Anarchist Federation) in the Dominican Republic in March of 2015. We call individuals and “delegates” of anarchist collectives in the region to join us in this meeting that will be an initial decisive moment to compare and coordinate actions, ideas and supplies based on the topics/themes that would emerge from each collective according to their location. [Castellano]
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