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(en) anarkismo.net: Can Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa NZ help save the world? by AWSM
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Mar 19 08:36:03 GMT 2019
AWSM are encouraged by the fact that the movement [Extinction Rebellion] has managed to
tap into the sense of alarm over climate change... but we feel that there is a
conversation that needs to be had about some of their demands. ---- Extinction Rebellion
was established in the United Kingdom in October 2018 as a movement that aims to use
tactics of nonviolent direct action in order to avert the effects of climate change. Since
its formation it has rapidly spread to at least 35 other countries, including New Zealand,
who have recently carried a few headline-grabbing protests, with the promise of more to
come. ---- Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement are encouraged by the fact that the
movement has managed to tap into the sense of alarm over climate change, and mobilised
many people not previously involved in protest, and we do not want to undermine the
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(en) avtonom.org: Russian society to save the anarchists [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Mar 19 08:31:34 GMT 2019
The most terrible misfortune of the Russian society is not corruption. There is no
lawlessness of repressive organs and outrageous gaping poverty. And not even an
authoritarian state and wild capitalism as abstract concepts. Stronger than all this, the
persistent feeling of deep social ill health freezes the soul. Sometimes it seems that the
Russian society has completely died. Extreme disunity and egoism, passivity and
indifference, the position of "man to man, nobody" - the hardest symptoms. The meaning of
life and ethics are replaced by rude mocking parody in the form of absolutely moronic
state propaganda. ---- Extensive pollution and destruction of nature; powerlessness and
indifference in the face of any injustice are the logical consequences of such a
situation. From time to time it seems that our compatriots really undertook to repeat
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(en) Belarus, anarchist group pramen: Russian anti-fascist reveals violence, humiliation and threats in pre-trial detention
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Mar 19 08:31:27 GMT 2019
Since October 2017, 11 people have been arrested as part of the "Network" case - a
terrorism investigation led by the Russian security services into anti-fascists and
anarchists. According to investigators, these men were allegedly members of an
organisation that planned to "destabilise the political climate in the country" during the
Russian presidential elections and Football World Cup via explosions and riots. Cells of
the organisation were allegedly operating in Moscow, St Petersburg, Penza and Belarus.
---- Several of the men detained have reported that the FSB tortured them into confessing
to the charges against them. For example, software engineer Viktor Filinkov, who was
abducted from St Petersburg Pulkovo airport in January 2018, has described in detail how
he was tortured with electric shocks into learning a false confession in a minivan on the
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(en) Poland, Workers' Initiative: Poznan Inter-enterprise Commission about a seven-hour day of work in libraries at Adam Mickiewicz University [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Mar 19 08:28:11 GMT 2019
Collegium Minus building in Poznan (source: Wikimedia Commons) ---- The Poznan
Inter-Factory Commission of the OZZ Employee Initiative issued a position supporting the
activities of librarians and librarians employed by the Adam Mickiewicz University. Below
we publish the full text of the document: ---- Position of the Poznan Intergenerational
Commission OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza of 12/03/2019 ---- on the behavior of a seven-hour
working day for certified librarians, custodians and senior librarians working at the A.
Mickiewicz University ---- The Poznan Inter-enterprise Commission OZZ Inicjatywa
Pracownicza expresses its full support for the efforts of librarians and librarians to
maintain a seven-hour working day for certified librarians, custodians and senior AMU
librarians. This is supported by the nature of their work, which requires adequate current
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(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #292 - Girl's life, Waist and chocolate creams (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Mar 19 08:27:51 GMT 2019
To be a woman is to bend to contradictory social injunctions. Injunctions that lead to
control of the body by themselves to submit to potentially lethal eating disorders. ----
Women suffering from bulimia or anorexia have an unhealthy fear of getting fat, making
their social life complicated. A bulimic woman has an uncontrollable and violent need to
eat, occurring suddenly and without pleasure. Conversely, the anorexic woman eats little
or nothing. In both cases they try to rid their body of excess calories by induced
vomiting, overuse of laxatives and intensive physical exercise, fasting or severe dietary
restrictions. ---- In today's society women have to be perfect: to have children while
keeping a body with shapes in the right places, to be fulfilled, both active and
seductive, to be a careerist, with a rich social life.
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(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - policy, Against state racism and police violence, March 16th in Paris (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Mar 18 08:44:01 GMT 2019
On 16 March, the entire anti-racist movement will demonstrate in Paris against racism and
police violence, and for the freedom of movement and settlement of migrants. ---- We,
families of victims killed, raped, mutilated, injured by the police ; ---- We, displaced,
tortured, traumatized, persecuted by the State and the system of borders ; ---- We, living
in the popular neighborhoods harassed and humiliated daily by police forces and targeted
by state racism ; ---- Supported by collectives, associations, unions and political
parties ; ---- We will march together, against state racism and police violence ----
SATURDAY 16 MARCH 2019 AT 13:12, PLACE OF THE MAGDALEN IN PARIS. ---- In a context where
police violence, first of all mainly in working-class neighborhoods, is spreading more and
more throughout society,
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(en) Brazil, FAT: WORKERS JOIN IN THE PERIPHERY OF GOIÂNIA TO ACT OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE WORKING WOMAN (pt) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Mar 18 08:43:53 GMT 2019
Yesterday (09-03), hundreds of workers from the Albino Boa Ventura community participated
in the public act of the International Women's Day at the ACOP (Recyclable Materials
Collectors Association) shed. ---- The event was organized by the FAT (Autonomous
Federation of Workers), the MNCR (National Movement of Recyclable Material Collectors) and
ACOP (Association of Collectors of Recyclable Materials Order and Progress). ---- The
activity began with statements from working women in the community about the need to
reject politicians, and to unite workers in a completely independent way, to fight for a
dignified life. ---- During the speeches the needs of women and the community were raised,
such as the importance of fighting for day care and school, so promised by politicians and
unrealized.
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(en) luta fob: [FOB-PI] Launch of the bulletin "Combat"! (pt) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Mar 18 08:39:56 GMT 2019
We launched the second edition of the bulletin "Combate", which now represents the nucleus
of FOB in Parnaíba. Download < here -
https://lutafob.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/combate-fob-002-parnac3adba-piauc3ad-1.pdf >
or check the materials in full: ---- A CHANGE NEEDED ---- In the past, we began to publish
the bulletin "Combate" in Parnaíba. At that time, it circulated as a propaganda vehicle of
the Collective Autonomy and Struggle (CAL) of the UFPI. After intense grassroots work,
propaganda, debates, political formations and participation in acts and demonstrations,
FOB in Parnaíba grew. As a result, today "Combate" will represent all the organizations
affiliated with FOB in the city. For him, we will take the voice of thousands of workers,
students and students who are trying to survive here. Space is also open to independent
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(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #292 - Venezuela: No corrupt potentate, no pro-US puppet! (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Mar 18 08:39:41 GMT 2019
Plunged into misery by the economic and political failure of the " Bolivarian Revolution "
initiated by Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan people has nothing to gain in replacing the
authoritarian Maduro by the self-proclamation of the bourgeois politician Juan Guaido to
the head of the state, supported by the threat of US military intervention. ---- The
situation in Venezuela is dramatic: inflation of 24,571% in 2018, 85% drop in legal
minimum income and average income, wages that do not even cover commuting, increased
infant mortality, food shortage and drugs, exodus of three million Venezuelans, daily
repression [1], possible US invasion and risk of civil war. ---- Faced with this, two
positions clash but do not meet the popular needs of democracy and well-being: for
Chavismo, there is a revolutionary process and the flaws are due to an external culprit
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(en) [Spain] The success of the feminist general strike By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Mar 18 08:34:25 GMT 2019
Today (09/03) at CNT we still savor the energy, the warmth, the unanimous cry of all the
people who yesterday (08/03) flooded the streets of Madrid. The soul of a woman who
breathed everywhere. The feminist face, the looks set to make way. ---- For the second
year in a row, the aerial imagery on the TV screens did not give a good account of the
airborne crash, or the overflowing joy that had sprung up since someone was riding the
nearby train or the subway to try to get to any of the points where the various
collectives had stayed to meet. Since the first hour of afternoon, there was no longer a
pin in the streets, although the calls for the demonstration were hours later.
Behind it was the intense work of the CNT's companions, participating in a thousand
assemblies and neighborhood collectives, meeting with women's groups, organizing internal
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