Anarchistic update news all over the world - 21 May 2016
Today's 5 Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #260 - social, The
livestock crisis symptom of a destructive agricultural model (fr,
it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Britain, glasgowanarchists: Glasgow Events from 19/05/2016
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - policy, Stop the
division: one is recovering, and it starts from the front (fr,
it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, ese.espivblogs.net: Sheet, working counter #114 -
articles from ERC Athens (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #260 - culture, Joyce
Carol Oates, singer of "sisterhood" (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Months pass and the farming crisis continues. Despite the large sums released by the
State, breeders and ranchers are not out of the woods. ---- Facing the farming crisis that
never ends, the government announced in early March action: blank year in social security
contributions, debt erasure order to still invest and increase productivity and
competitiveness ... But it are only temporary measures, they are ineffective as a
structural crisis of overproduction, the same source is the disappearance of regulatory
tools at European level, quotas among others. ---- The only proposed route is the headlong
rush towards industrialization: increase investment, the size of farms, production. It's
the same small liberal refrain that we hear for months. A European leader is reassuring:
"The market will eventually regulate itself. "The regulation of the market means that a
number of small and medium farms will go bankrupt, and thus compensate for the increased
production of the largest. That is the reality. The market regulation is a social
disaster, human and economic. The invisible hand cleaned up our campaigns
The last European negotiations "crisis" of the mid-March did not question this approach.
While there may be some temporary regulations, there will be no collective measure
throughout the European Union.
peasant anger
Contestation and peasant actions have been more or less intensity in recent months but the
anger remains the same. FNSEA, the majority union which organizes the vindictiveness
facing a dramatic situation, blows hot and cold. A portion of the claims brought is
populist and fuzzy, "too many burdens," "too many standards." You can put different
realities behind these watchwords. Indeed, some maintain standards and peasant agriculture
farm, others want to impose an industrial vision.
Two visions of agriculture therefore face in their implementation. Or just another part of
the claims of the businessman's union Xavier Beulin goes in the direction of increasing
industrialization (investment, automated slaughterhouses ...), which will only make the
livestock crisis. On the one hand the FNSEA stirs protest, but on the other, she oversees
claims for profit.
Peasant Confederation fights hand to restore regulatory tools to return to decent prices.
This is the only short-term solution to avoid bankruptcy for many peasants. A claim shared
by many of the farmers and breeders are concerned, but the peasant union trouble to
succeed. Involved, difficulty drill mediatically but especially orientation and union
strategy not enough offensive in the regions most affected by the crisis.
Taking criticism of industrialization
We can not find appropriate solutions to this crisis only through a critique of the
agricultural model that was set up. For several decades, the way of "progress" has
dominated the whole development of agriculture expansion, investment in more efficient
tools and machines, thrust selection on livestock to increase productivity ... This unique
ideology is required in all areas, agricultural training to the technician who comes
adviser on the farm, through the accountant, banker, neighbors, co ...
When everyone works in one direction, it is difficult to change path. That's how many
generations have found themselves locked in a very export-oriented system that wanted to
play on the international markets. Ideological choices but also geopolitical led to the
establishment of this model. A country with a very export-oriented agriculture has an
important weight in the international arena. And a number of farm leaders have contributed
to the transformation of cooperatives in food multinationals, which now have policies
against farmers.
The addition is salty
Stuck in this model, they are paying now adding salt. But analysis of the link between the
production model and the crisis that we know is not worn by everyone in the country
Confederation. In some departments, the union has the means to lead a political front,
more ambitious, but it is necessary to assume that policy coherence.
Produce to win export markets implies an industrial system. We must make large volumes at
low cost. Between the monstrous investments, fluctuations in market prices and
cooperatives that compress regular prices paid to producers, farmers and farmers are
cutting back on their income to keep a semblance of economic stability. We are in a
situation where people supposed to feed people are actually working to feed the financiers
and speculators, whose profits are linked to international transactions on agricultural
matters.
The power at the heart of agricultural production
There is therefore a need to return to the debate from the center the direction of
agricultural production. This may seem trivial but it is imperative to give it a dietary
goal. Because if we produce to feed the population, then we have that production is
consumed locally. She does not need to cross the planet for that. If we work to feed the
population, then we must produce quality food and therefore of farmers and many farmers on
preserved land. If the primary objective of agriculture is food, then you have to change
agricultural policy!
Georges Claas (AL Var)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?La-crise-de-l-elevage-symptome-d
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Hi folks, Another jam-packed update, with both an open night for the Glasgow Night Shelter
where folks can learn how to get involved and a fundraiser to help expand the project.
Along with that there is a load of other events on the go! ---- Enjoy ********** Show your
support for the Glasgow Primary School Janitors ---- Thursday, May 19 at 5:30 PM ----
Buchanan Gallery Steps ---- Come along and show your support for the Glasgow Primary
School Janitors, on strike for fair & equal pay. Glasgow city council are refusing to
negotiate. bring union members, banners friends and family. ---- Speed Sisters – Summer
Season ---- Thursday, May 19 at 7 PM ---- CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St, G2 3JD
Speed Sisters | Dir. Amber Fares | 78 mins | Palestine | 2015
The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East.
Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five
women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street
car-racing scene. Weaving together their lives on and off the track, SPEED SISTERS takes
you on a surprising journey into the drive to go further and faster than anyone thought
you could.
Fundraiser for Refuweegee – https://refuweegee.co.uk/
Entry FREE/Donations for Refuweegee
+ Introduction by Refuweegee about their work
+ Film followed by letter writing session (optional
Film with subtitles for deaf/hard of hearing audience members and introduction with BSL
interpretation.
Trailer – https://vimeo.com/125648413
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Open evening at Glasgow Night Shelter
Thursday, May 19 at 8 PM – 11 PM
Contact details below
Interested in volunteering at the night shelter? Then come along to our Open Evening on
Thursday 19th May at 8pm to find out more about the shelter and what it is like to
volunteer there. This is an excellent opportunity to see what the shelter does and how our
amazing team of volunteers do it, bring your friends!
Email glasgownightshelter[at]gmail.com to get more details or text 07929852264
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Rae Spoon
Friday, May 20 at 7:30 PM
Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, G411BA (opposite Kinning Park Underground)
Suggestion donation £6 waged/£4 unwaged
All ages welcome, BYOB for those 18+ only
Accessible venue and gender neutral toilets will be available
A rare chance to see the exceptional Canadian musician, performer and writer Rae Spoon
(http://www.raespoon.com/) as part of their tour of UK and Europe! Their latest solo album
Armour follows their critically acclaimed film and album My Prairie Home as well as their
book Gender Failure, co-authored with Ivan E Coyote, which explores their experiences of
failing to fit into society’s traditional binary understanding of gender. Support from
Laurence Made Me Cry (http://laurencemademecry.com/) – singer/songwriter and artist Jo
Whitby, Leeds-based queer punk act Jesus and his Judgemental Father
(https://www.facebook.com/jesusandhisjudgementalfather/) and Glasgow-based
singer/songwriter and storyteller Chrissy Barnacle (https://chrissybarnacle.bandcamp.com/).
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Cycle In Movie – Bikes vs Cars
Saturday, May 21 at 8:30 PM – 11:30 PM
Pollokshields Playhouse, Albert Drive, G41 2PE
Join us for a our open-air, cycle-in screening of Bikes vs Cars – an intelligent, intimate
and well crafted look at how we can make or cities more bike and people friendly.
Alongside the main screening we’ll be showing some carefully selected ‘cycle-in shorts’ in
our shipping container cinema, Soul Riders will be on hand to help you with any bike
related questions and Jaldikatessan will provide much needed sustenance.
This is a free event (suggested donation £2)
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Belter for a Shelter!
Tuesday, May 24 at 10 PM
Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3LG
Glaswegians unite to bring you a night to swing and boogie to your heart’s desire in order
to raise funding for our city’s Refugee Night Shelter!
The current Night Shelter for Destitute Asylum Seekers has been providing a vital service
in Glasgow for the last five years: giving a home for up to fifteen men a night who have
been denied access to public charity facilities due to their refugee status.
The team over at the night shelter are currently in the process of raising funds for the
opening of a new mixed-gendered shelter in order to house more people affected by asylum.
This shelter will be licensed to house both men and women which is crucial in their
efforts to keep families together.
So, please, join us in a drink and a dance for humanity as we have some cracking acts
lined up for you…
Harry & The Hendersons (Band)
*
A sweet and unusual blend of Americana, psychedelic-rock and folk meets striking vocal
harmonies to create an irresistible sound.
https://soundcloud.com/harryandthehendersons
The Ediots
*
Their main purpose being for you to groove all night long, The Ediots team up as a four
man band that oozes old school charm whilst shaking up modern music with unadulterated
madness.
https://soundcloud.com/the-ediots
samaniona
*
Bluesy folk that will make your mind wonder…
https://soundcloud.com/samaniona
To top it all off we have our good and talented friends, Kubwa (Strawberry Jam Sound
System), Clippa (Too Much Hype) and Adler (Partial) to whisk the night away, playing a
mixture of music from disco to funk, and beyond…
>Super groovy visuals from Sean Zelle!<
ENTRANCE:
£4 MINIMUM DONATION
£5 AFTER MIDNIGHT
All proceeds from the evening will be donated towards the opening of the new shelter.
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UNITY ARABIC/ENGLISH LANGUAGE EXCHANGE –
Tuesday, May 24 at 7 PM – 9 PM
Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, G411BA (opposite Kinning Park Underground)
Free/donation
Every Tuesday we meet to exchange Arabic and English language in a conversation class. It
is a space for all levels to come and we all learn what we like in the way that we want –
some focus on writing and grammar, others prefer to swap slang.
We aim to improve our language skills and get to know each other in a supportive
environment – the class is a welcoming place, where English is not put on a pedestal and
everyone is learning.
The group is volunteer run and functions collectively – we make decisions all together.
The class is free but we welcome donations. Any money goes directly to funding others’
travel, who could not otherwise afford to attend the class. If you can’t come to the class
but want to support us anyway, you can donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/languageexchange
Bringing snacks to share is encouraged
The Unity Centre offers practical support and unconditional solidarity to asylum seekers
and all migrants – http://unitycentreglasgow.org/. The class has gotten so big we have
outgrown Unity’s office, hence the move to KPC.
[We are particularly in search of English speakers to join us, as there are many more
Arabic speakers than English speakers. You certainly don't have to be a native speaker,
anyone from anywhere is welcome!]
Please email unitylanguageexchange if you’d like to come down and feel free to extend this
invitation.
.
Hope to see you there!
* KPC will host us for the next weeks, but do email unitylanguageexchange to confirm venue
as it might change later in the year.
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What do sex workers want? Film night
Friday, June 3 at 7 PM
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St, G2 3JD
For International Sex Workers’ Day, Sex Worker Open University is inviting to a projection
of three short movies exploring the diverse realities of sex workers around the world,
followed by a Q&A wth sex workers and allies from SCOT-PEP and Umbrella Lane, two
organsiations working with sex workers in Scotland
The programme includes:
Soy negra, soy marica, soy puta (i’m black, i’ m queer, i’m a whore) by Hugo Meijer and
Cas van der Pas – a short documentary that follows Diana Navarro, a sex worker and lawyer
who is fighting for the rights of trans people and sex workers in Colombia.
Becky’s Journey by Sine Plambech tells the story of Becky, a 26 year old Nigerian woman
who has made two attempts to go to Europe to sell sex in the hopes of changing her life.
What do sex workers want? Sex worker and activist Toni Mac take the stage in East London
to spell out the demand of the sex workers’ rights movement.
Ages: 14+ accompanied by an adult
Ticket: £7; £3 concession
www.swou.org
www.scot-pep.org.uk
www.umbrellalane.org
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Rowan Refuge Summer Open Days 2016
Saturday, June 4 & Sunday, June 5 at 12 PM – 6 PM
34 Ravenshall Road, Shawlands, G413SP
– free entry –
Are you interested in…
– organic gardening ?
– growing food, herbs and flowers ?
– birds, bugs and other wildlife ?
– composting, recycling and upcycling ?
– small space DIY structures ?
…then this wee southside of Glasgow residential garden may interest you!
Also available:
– mini bookstall –
– info point –
– seed swap –
– refreshments –
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Magical Radical Collective (formerly Radical Childcare Collective) June Meet up!
Sunday, June 12 at 12 PM – 4 PM
Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, G411BA (opposite Kinning Park Underground)
Next meet up will be same time and place KPC 12-4pm
Weather dependent we will either be in the upstairs hall or out in the garden!
This months skilshare theme is KNITTING! so bring along any spare wool, knitting kneedles
you have knocking about.
It will be super casual so feel free to join in or not depending how you are feeling on
the day.
As usual bring snacks to share if you fancy and any other bits and bobs that are fun! (we
usually have a good supply of crafting paper etc, balls, face paints, and a mini resorce
library on all things parenting/hanging out with kids)
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United Glasgow FC 5th Anniversary Fundraiser
Saturday, June 25 at 7 PM – 3 AM
O2 ABC, 300 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow, Lanarkshire G2 3JA
United Glasgow Football Club will celebrate it’s 5th anniversary on 25th June 2016 and
we’d love you to be part of it!
There will be music from:
The Wakes (Glasgow/Folk and Roll)
www.thewakes.info
Bombskare (Edinburgh/Ska)
www.bombskare.com
Esperanza (Glasgow/Ska/Punk/Reggae)
http://www.reverbnation.com/esperanza
There will also be a range of 5th Anniversary UGFC merchandise available over this weekend
and merchandise from FC Lampedusa Hamburg and RFC Lions Ska Football Club, among others!
Tickets are only £6 in advance from the O2 ABC Box Office, www.ticketweb.com or from
United Glasgow FC players. If you want to support but can’t come, you can buy a ticket and
we’ll donate it to someone who can’t afford to come otherwise.
Whether you’ve played for us, came and watched us, support us from a distance or just like
the idea, why not come along and say hi – it’s our birthday after all!
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United Glasgow FC Men’s Player of the Year Night
Sunday, June 26 at 7 PM – 12 AM
The Rum Shack Glasgow, 657 – 659 Pollokshaws Road, G41 2AB
It’s at the end of a VERY long season for United Glasgow FC’s men’s teams and we think
it’s time to celebrate those who’ve made this a great year.
With more award winners than ever, this should be a great night with food, drinks, raffles
and music at the Rum Shack in Glasgow’s south side.
Awards will be presented for:
Player of the Year (Saturday Team)
Player of the Year (Sunday Team)
Player of the Year (Development Team)
Players Player of the Year (Saturday Team)
Players Player of the Year (Sunday Team)
Players Player of the Year (Development Team)
Top goalscorer
Most Improved Player (Development Team)
Volunteer of the Year
And more.
Come along and celebrate the 2015/16 season of United Glasgow FC’s men’s teams!
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RADICAL FOOD SOLIDARITY PROJECTS
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Govanhill Free Dinner
Every Monday at 5:30pm – 8:00pm
Govanhill Trinity Church, 28 Daisy Street, G42 8JZ
Join your neighbours for a free dinner. All welcome.
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The UNITY World Café
Every Tuesday at 11:00am – 1:00pm
140-142 Nelson Street, G5 8EJ
UNITY is still distributing free food to destitute asylum seekers.
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Kinning Park Complex: Social Sundays
Every Sunday 11am – 4pm
Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, G411BA (opposite Kinning Park Underground)
Join us every Sunday for good food, clothes swapping and up-cycling activities for all the
family!
Upcycling: Learn how to turn junk into practical household and garden items!
Café: The Real Junk Food Project will be joining us every week! Using ‘intercepted’ food
waste. Served on a Pay-What-You-Want basis!
Swap ‘Shop’: Bring unwanted clothes/accessories/textiles and toys still in good condition
and swap them for others!
contact: christy
jon
for more info call us: 0141 419 0329
Our doors are always open so pop in for a chat if you are passing and we will have a cup
of tea in the garden!
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RADICAL SPORTS & OUTDOORS SECTION
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Glasgow’s Maiden Grrders vs Blackpool Roller Derby
Saturday, May 21 at 12 PM – 3 PM
The Arc Sports Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, G4 0BA
Back on track after their last winning home game, on the 21st May, Glasgow’s reserves, the
Maiden Grrders will do battle with Blackpool Roller Derby’s A-Team. Blackpool hosted an
excellent Sur5al tournament last year and some of our Maidens went down, but this will be
the full length real deal.
We are really excited to welcome them to Glasgow and to cheer our Maidens on.
Come on down to the ARC and cheer with us, and enjoy snacks, games and fun while you’re
there. Remember tickets are cheaper online in advance at £6.
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GRD Presents: Stefanie Mainey Bootcamp
Sunday, May 22 at 1 PM – 5:45 PM
The Arc Sports Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, G4 0BA
Glasgow Roller Derby is excited to announce our Spring 2016 Intermediate bootcamp:
featuring the one and only Stefanie Mainey!
Stef is coming up from London, where she skates for London Rollergirls’ A Team, London
Brawling, currently ranked #3 in the world! So grab this opportunity for her coaching at
intermediate level in Scotland while you can.
Stef is a full time roller derby coach, and a legendary skater with a wealth of
international experience and success. She will be delivering a bootcamp with both
off-skates fitness and strength, and on skates training. This a unique opportunity to hone
your skills and learn from one of the biggest names in roller derby.
Intermediate = full WFTDA minimum skills passed. Already playing games, or cleared to.
On-Skates tickets are £50, anyone who will be coming along solely to take notes should buy
an off-skates ticket for £25.
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Critical Mass
Friday, May 27 at 7 PM
George Square
Meet at the column before a ride about town.
INVITE YOUR PALS!
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Knockout – LEAP Festival Fortnight Taster Session
Saturday, June 4 at 11 AM – 12:30 PM
Glasgow Club Gym John Paul, 2 Arrochar Street, G23 5LY
A Taster session for the LEAP Sports Festival Fortnight. Want to try boxing but feel a bit
uneasy? Let us take you through a workout in which you learn some boxing basics, and train
like a fighter! For more information, get in touch. Members of the trans community welcome.
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United Glasgow FC 5th Anniversary Friendly Match
Saturday, June 25 at 1 PM – 5 PM
James Mcgrory Park – St Roch’s FC, Provanmill, East Dunbartonshire
United Glasgow Football Club will celebrate it’s 5th anniversary on 25th June 2016 and
we’d love you to be part of it!
Like last year, we’ll have a match between current UGFC players, ex-players (and long
serving club players/volunteers) and friends of UGFC.
The match is being hosted for the second year in a row by our friends at St Roch’s FC
who’ll have a licence to run a bar at the event on the day with beers on the go at £2 a
can and other drinks available.
There will also be a range of 5th Anniversary UGFC merchandise available over this weekend
and merchandise from FC Lampedusa Hamburg and RFC Lions Ska Football Club, among others!
Whether you’ve played for us, came and watched us, support us from a distance or just like
the idea, why not come along and say hi – it’s our birthday after all!
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United Glasgow Football Club
The club operates under dual core principles of anti-discrimination and financial inclusion.
www.unitedglasgowfc.eu
www.clubwebsite.co.uk/unitedglasgowfc
UGFC run beginners sessions for women every Monday night at the Firhill Complex. These
sessions are trans inclusive. If you’ve not played since school or have never played at
all, why not come along for a kickabout? Only £1 if working and nothing if you’re not earning!
For more info or to find out about our women’s 11-a-side team, get in touch with Jazz
Rogers at jazz
Contact the Club for men’s training times.
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United Glasgow: Can You Support Us? A Call To Action!
From like-minded football clubs to individuals who agree with our stance on financial
inclusion and anti-discrimination, United Glasgow has many supporters from across the
world. We’re calling on you, your friends, families and local businesses to support our
cause and help us to continue to provide access to football for Glasgow’s young people. As
you will be aware, we operate under a system of paying only if you are able to, which is
why we’re appealing for supporters to set up a monthly subscription (£10 suggested
donation) to cover the costs of hiring training facilities.
"We spend nearly £800 per month on training venues alone; your monthly support can ensure
we can keep providing access and opportunities for all." – Alan, Chairperson
In 2014/15, the significant of our total costs were spent on renting venues to provide
access to sports (and we have grown since then!) and we could really use your help to
continue to provide this.
If you would like to set up a subscription or one off payment, you can rest assured that
your contributions are directly helping provide young people from all walks of Glasgow
life the chance to train and play together.
http://www.unitedglasgowfc.eu/supportus
Also: Do you have any spare football boots that you could donate to those who have none
but desperately want to play football? We’re always accepting donations of astro-trainers
and moulded boots (no metal studs!) for our men’s teams. Please get in touch if you can
help out.
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In Paris, Marseille and Lille, the protests have been the scene of clashes between the SO
the CGT and part of manifestant.es It is urgent that the movement coming reluctantly to
the government and police repression. ---- The protests against the "work" law of May 12
was the place of internal clashes in several cities, including Paris, Marseille and Lille.
The facts, city by city, respond to different logics and Alternative Libertaire does not
have to arbitrate on the responsibilities of each other. ---- One thing is certain: the
confrontation between union-order services and those who are désigné.es by the bourgeois
media as "thugs" is deplorable. And, beyond the physical consequences it can have on
people. So far, in fact, the movement was relatively welded facing a brutal and
indiscriminate police repression, and refused distinguish bon.nes and mauvais.es
manifestant.es.
The government was legitimately worried that the social movement to resume the bull by the
horns, seen anger over the 49.3. For him, this discord among manifestant.es is an
excellent deal.
Role of police communication
We must emphasize how, in Paris, the police headquarters services have encouraged the
clashes in publishing, the day before the protest, a statement suggesting active
collaboration of the major trade unions with police. A statement false, which infuriated
both the CGT that to Solidarity .
The problem is that too many people are willing to take the police allegations at face
value. Both in the direction of some trade union organization that the prefecture panics
by sliding them as "anarchists uncontrollable thugs" will attack the event that the side
of manifestant.es that, on the basis of the statement of the prefecture, are ready to
believe that unions have become police auxiliaries!
Hence a latent hostility, sometimes serious consequences, such as May 12
The week ahead promises decisive. We must recover, refuse the logic of escalating
retaliation between the different sensibilities of the same social movement. It would be
irresponsible these scenes recur. Make no mistake of enemies against the government, the
cops and management, what will be decisive is to continue building the strikes and actions
of the coming week.
Strikes, blockades, sabotage, this is how we will win against the bill and the
accompanying world!
Alternative Libertaire, May 13, 2016
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Stop-a-la-division-on-se-ressaisit,6899
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Message: 4
Intervention week made passed us in the Ministry of Merchant Marine of seafarers unions,
following a complaint seamen ship «OCEAN GLORY» shipping company NICOLAKIS SHIPPING SA,
located in the repair dock Drapetsona due to damage to the main engine for the serious
problems encountered. Specifically, the sailors of the ship «OCEAN GLORY» complain that is
unpaid four months, they work 12-hour some specialties and sailors of the ship from other
countries, who have declared resignation and want to return to, remain trapped without
being given the opportunity to do so. ---- In a 48-hour strike went down Thursday, the
12th and Friday, May 13 the "Petrogaz" workers, in response to horizontal wage cuts and
the withdrawal of benefits. As part of the strike was gathering at the gate of the
premises of "Petrogaz" Aspropyrgos am Thursday, May 12.
We workers reject management logic of the economy in our lives, we refuse the misery of
defeatism, we put forward the needs of the class with us. These stresses the Libertarian
Syndicalist Union Athens (ERC) in the text for the new insurance. Here is unchanged text:
What is new insurance bill:
It is the continuation of the previous government efforts to abolish insurance welfare
system and an integral part of the ruling class assault on the world of work, which aims
to dominance of the neoliberal economic model (known as the "every man for himself"), the
transfer public goods to the private sector and greater domination of capital.
The new insurance bill divides the pension in national (euro 386) and rewarding, with a
minimum performance threshold of 67 years, and linking health care with our contributions.
In addition, it leaves room in the State to redefine the level of pensions, or the
conditions under which medical care to be given. Therefore care and insurance, will no
longer be a collective right, Welfare structure and obligation of the State, but turns
into a matter of personal responsibility for the employee and issue provider for the
state, and is approached parallel shift of workers to private insurance companies and
care. The new insurance undermines the lives of all of us who are working today, and
condemning the next generations of workers to be given from the beginning the matches gave
the working class from 1900 until today, to achieve the acquired rights.
The fair solution to insurance:
Months now, Mass domestication trying to convince us that it is imperative to "recover"
our insurance system and to provide a "fair solution". If the insurance system suffers, we
are not responsible employees, who all these years constantly pay our contributions.
Responsible looting of pension funds from the state (gambling on the stock exchange with
its reserves, structured notes that the same funds loaded, the cut after the PSI ) and the
years of contribution evasion employers. Therefore only "fair solution" is to restore the
damage caused by those who caused it, namely the state and employers same.
What can we do:
Realizing that staying away from GSEE, Hadad, and other bosses organizations interrelated
with state and employers, but also self-organized in work places, neighborhoods and
schools are increasing our strength, we go together and ask: the withdrawal of the
insurance bill, the return of reserve funds, the payment of contributions due from an
employer, human wages and hours, combating the 'black' labor with stamps for all hours of
work and overtime, keeping the redistributive nature of social security. WE THE EMPLOYEES:
1) dismiss the LOGIC MANAGEMENT OF ECONOMY IN OUR LIVES, 2) refuse misery OF ITTOPATHEIAS
3) prepend THE NEEDS OF OUR ORDER
Libertarian Syndicalist Union (Athens)
Deferred meters under the responsibility of employers the tripartite meeting on dismissal
in VEMEKEP which was scheduled for Wednesday, May 11 on Labour Inspection in Volos. New
tripartite meetings set for Tuesday, May 17 at the Ministry of Labour and Thursday, May
19. Recalls that on 31 March of the employers VEMEKEP proceeded in both dismissals, at
once be a union persecution.
They continue their struggle by the workers 'Karipidis' who made new protests Thursday and
Friday 12 and 13 months respectively. It is worth mentioning that the more than 1,400
employees nationwide (more than 40 in Ioannina) to 131 stores "Karipidis '(formerly'
Arvanitides") is for four months unpaid.
In a 24-hour strike Sunday, May 15. Made by the 150 employees of the hotel «Athens Ledra»,
The workers assert their accrued, as is unpaid since mid-March, while they have not been
paid or Easter gift.
4hours working stops made by factory workers 'Recycling' Ioannina Thursday, May 12 in two
shifts of. The workers 'Recycling' Ioannina claim be paid accrued March and April, due to
them, to determine specific date of payment of salary and give them clothes and they had
committed the employers that will provide. Recall that the workers struggle had long ago
succeeded in fighting demonstrations, revoked the 17 redundancies at the factory, which
had advanced the employers of "Recycling" in order to change labor relations.
Another near-employer murder in the battery industry factory TOSOH, at Sindos
(Thessaloniki). Worker suffered serious injury when performing cleaning operations fell
from a height. The sectoral chemical union refers to non-existent security measures.
Measures that do not cost to employers, nevertheless are not proving to us once again how
many disposable considers workers in pursuit of profit.
A further near-employer crime, which was described as accident occurred on a freighter in
Preveza, Monday 9 / 5.The 65chronos sailor, member of «SEHER YILDIZI» the cargo ship crew,
located plagiodetimeno the commercial port Preveza injured during work on the ship.
Protest rally outside the Labour Ministry made 12/5 on the former employees 'Athens
Electronics' delegation which presented a memorandum with their demands to the Ministry of
Labour. They demand immediate payment of compensation to them in full, their integration
into the OAED immediate payment of unemployment benefits and be given priority of
employees' claims against banks and other creditors, administration of the insolvency
allowance and granting temporary assistance benefit by OAED.
They continued and the week we spent their strike by cleaners of O.SY. bus
In the text published by the Association of Workers in cleaning (Circus) (The
recommendation in the struggling club cleaners bus) write:
The maids of O.SY. bus we are again on strike. We started the new round of strikes on the
6th of May.
The company Link Apr undertaken the task of cleaning the bus O.SY. and which employs us
has our unpaid for months. Specifically he owes wages 2-4 months (depending on the depot).
And this happens although the Link Apr normally paid by O.SY. and it takes about 140,000
euros each mina.Sti vast majority of the cleaners Link Apr gives salary EUR 450 for 6
hour, night, heavy and unhealthy work - the salary that should give us in accordance with
the law is at least 680 euros. Moreover Link Apr owes our prizes, bonuses, etc. In almost
all the depots are forcing us to clean every night many more buses than they are
legitimate. At the depot in Anthousa for example, many nights are forcing us to clean up
to 25 buses each instead of 13. Therefore neither the buses cleaned properly and we kill.
The Link Apr gives us personal protective equipment (gloves, masks, clothing and work
shoes). It does not give us even bags for garbage. In many depots gives one black bag
every 6 months and tells us to wash every night and the Reuse! From the beginning of our
struggle we face threats that will be fired, etc. The O.SY. although well aware of what is
happening and although it can and should intervene indifferent completely. The text of the
Circus closes as follows:
In ynechizoume our strike and we demand: The immediate payment of all our accrued, gifts
and epidomaton.Tin observe the national general collective agreement, labor law and all
health and safety rules in areas ergasias.Tin immediate cessation of the acts of
intimidation employers towards us, including threats of dismissal made to the depot in
Anthousa and depot of the heads of Greek and our employer Foti Moraitis on 6/5, general
strike day, due to our decision to participate in it! The immediate withdrawal of the
dismissal of colleague Siranush Chorekcyan from the depot of Piraeus.
" Not to blame, criminalization and prohibition of labor and social struggles n". It said
in a statement of the CLUB EMPLOYEE TRAINING THESSALONIKI (CCU), regarding the decision of
the three-member Court of Appeal Thes / niki, which vindicated the bosses of tutorials
"Bacharakis" on the protests made by the association defending the illegally redundant
colleague C. . Papagianni. as an Association and as workers -Refers the announcement
SMETH- addressing every social and political collectivity (unions, clubs, associations,
parties, organizations, scientific, student associations, etc.) and each worker / n, new /
th and ask for the material and moral support and their support, to the Association of us.
Read the full announcement here .
Finally, news from the international arena. Workers- slaves in poultry farms in the US. A.
prohibited to workers peeing and force them to wear ... incontinence diapers! As revealed
by the website ALFA VITA , on poultry farms in the US, there is a long history of
complaints for safety violations and mass hospitalizations workers in hospitals after
accidents. They have recorded x Iliad amputations, while injuries reaching 250,000 the
year. The highlight? Workers are forced to wear incontinence pads because their bosses do
not allow them to break toilet. The article ALFA VITA notes that: the term "workplace
Middle Ages" is not sufficient to describe the poor conditions under which the work of
dozens of poultry farms officials in the US.
https://ese.espivblogs.net/2016/05/15/15-5-16_2/
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This American feminist writer has published over fifty years of precious novels to
understand the different faces of violence: that which flourishes in poverty, one that
runs along the racial divisions and the center of his work, which bruises the women. ----
The writing of Joyce Carol Oates is subtle and very measured. His novels are never sordid.
The writer arrives by simple observation, which is a kind of mirror that we tend to
measure the experienced injustice and its implications. When you're a woman and you read
Oates, it is not surprising. We recognize ourselves. ---- Degradation, violence,
humiliation by female characters portrayed are part of our daily lives. The writer's
evolved over several decades. We see them grow up and grow old or die. attachment since it
accompanies it. By identifying them, we suffer with these women class injustices and
patriarchy. It endures emotional abuse, psychological and physical that turn - or not - in
trauma. As in our lives, they are milestones that constitute them. The class oppression
and patriarchy are finally full of "little things" that seem normal everyday as they are
common. Yet it gradually end up making women "crazy".
In a society like France, where 75,000 women are raped every year - a rape is committed
every seven minutes on average - it is essential to continue to combat the normalization
of rape and to uncover the system that legitimizes and produces these violence.
The heroines of Joyce Carol Oates, in the image of women in general, grow up with the idea
that their bodies do not belong to them, it can be degraded and that when this happens,
they are responsible. In Falls, Ariah Littrell pay throughout his life suicide of her
husband who takes the morning of their wedding night, as if women were in them the
responsibility of becoming men, their husband, their brother, their father. Patriarchal
society maintains the idea that girls and sisters belong to the men of their families.
Then, from the moment they have sex - whether intended or not - with a man, they become
their property.
If the female characters of Joyce Carol Oates are central, they nevertheless gradually
disappear novels. Men take up space, the whole place in As. In We were Mulvaney example,
if Marianne who is raped, it is the states of mind, pain and trauma of the men of his
family overwhelm the story. The father descends into hell, ashamed and destroyed by the
rape of his daughter, while the brother is obsessed with revenge. Marianne feels that we
do not know, or little. Nobody takes the trouble to seek to know their wishes and
projects. Her father and brothers are not empathetic, which the guide is the humiliation
they suffer as men, because another man dared to touch one of their women.
How does it do to become mature, to grow, to build relationships, to have sex while her
teenage life was marked by a violent attack? We do not know. As in real life. The
thoughts, the feelings, the experiences of the women's annex. And in life as women
eventually disappear. Invisible.
Deny guilt
It is in the sense of sisterhood and life in community of women as heroines of Joyce Carol
Oates manage to deny guilt, imposing their own rules as teen of Confessions of a Girl
Gang. By showing character alienating social structures such as family (we were the
Mulvaney), the company (the Falls), the ghetto (They) or university (Mudwoman), the writer
urges us to imagine other more emancipatory structures.
Joyce Carol Oates's novels are as custodians of a shared history of women's struggles
against patriarchal violence and ecological alternatives: in Falls such a voice is given
to those who fought the ravages of industrial expansion in 1950-1960 in the United States.
collective sharing of injuries
Other novels register the cooperative life experiences of the 1960s a feminist reading:
societal alternatives based on cooperation and solidarity, whether mixed or not, appear
emancipation for women. They oppose the pursuit of profit, the exacerbated desire to own,
crush, humiliate.
The richness of the themes in his novels (ecology, the rejection of the war in the Middle
East, racism) forces us to make a back-and-forth that never ceases to show the conflict
between individual-e and his environment, between individual morality and collective
morality. The characters in Joyce Carol Oates are powerful because they show us how the
simple point of fact exist in our society is precarious. Precariousness, whether economic
or emotional, is a way of life own subordinates in the novels of Joyce Carol Oates:
indeed, some lives do not matter and your continued to exist, to support himself in life
is already an achievement.
The violence create scratches, bruises with which each one should live his life. They may
subside with time or be crippling burdens, depending. That's life. Each one has to do with
his neuroses and traumas. The novels of Joyce Carol Oates show us that these pains that
are personal and intimate yet said the common lot of people belonging to the same
oppressed group, either because of social class, gender or color of skin.
When the sum of individual experiences appears as a collective sharing of injury, then,
the fact is that they are the result of domination that make system. They are one of the
ways in which patriarchy, racism and capitalism bully us, we feel inferior to ourselves
and to others to break the revolts inclinations.
After accompanying these characters are other ourselves, we leave the novels of Joyce
Carol Oates in the knowledge of having made the right choice the day we chose to fight for
social justice and the fulfillment of each and every one of all. And with a fierce will to
continue.
Maud (AL NCB) and Lucie (AL Rennes)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Joyce-Carol-Oates-Ecrivaine
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