A-Infos (en) Colombia, Local Libertarian Conference - a step towards the construction of an anarchist Local [machine translation]

LOCAL DAYS LIBERTARIAS, MEDELLIN, NOVEMBER 2009: ONE STEP FURTHER FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 
A LOCAL ANARCHIST MOVEMENT ---- Since 1998, Colombia had made a series of meetings 
organized libertarian locally and nationally known as LIBERTARIAS DAYS, aiming for the 
match and consolidation of processes anarchists. The days are few opportunities for 
socialization of topics important to the libertarian and critical awareness training in a 
country that relegates the enclosure thought to be of great danger to their establishment. 
Each group organized in different regions of the country has a reference or libertarian 
view of days depending on the process, however, is to recognize what has generated the 
process of working as a libertarian web site creation www.nodo50.org / anarcol /. With the 
event held in Medellin in 2004, and the emergence of a joint space anarchist collective 
called Anarchist Local Coordination, CLA in 2007.

By November 2009, in Medellin, we met several collectives and individuals related to 
anarchist ideas, to organize another version of LIBERTARIAS LOCAL DAYS in which, as 
anarchists, we try to analyze and generate discussions on social realities , questioning 
the socio-political and economic environment in which we live, share experiences, actions 
and share with the processes of resistance from the grass roots and the various forms of 
popular struggle.

We believe that with collective efforts we get a good event later, but it needs to reflect 
our fellow libertarians, since one of the most marked weaknesses in these meetings was the 
lack of articulation of the basic work of anarchists l @ s at local.

The local Libertarian Conference were there during the last weekend in November in three 
different spaces: the University of Antioquia, the headquarters of ADIDA (Association of 
Instructors of Antioquia) and the headquarters of the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz 
district. In these places we have good attendance for the development of lectures, talks 
and workshops around 3 main themes proposed in programming, with a traditional pot 
Community and the sale of libertarian (zines, patches, disks, papers, among others).

The first axis was on the Minga de Resistencia Social y Comunitaria. Several compañer @ s 
that have been part of the process in Medellín, realized about how this process is what 
brings us to 2010, marking the journey of the word and the social struggle from five 
points: Sovereignty, Land and Territory; Right to life unfulfilled agreements, NAFTA, 
Economic Systems and agenda of the peoples who are part of a joint effort of knowledge for 
the construction of realities worthy and solidarity, biodiversity, towards the unity of 
the social and popular movements.

In the second area, called the criminalization of protest and other forms of state 
terrorism, addressed issues related to the pursuit of the state through its legal 
machinery, military, judicial, to dissent, to social protest in order to weaken and 
finishes to maintain the established order. And with the third axis, Popular Struggle and 
Identity, sought to know the modalities for the control of various popular social sectors: 
workers, indigenous peoples, peasants, Afro, youth, students and community. Also featured 
notes on the claim of the peoples' struggle to forge an identity that counters the 
established order at present, of popular shades, where the social sectors depend on the 
geography, economy, politics and culture.

According to these two axes, are crucial issues overflowed attended the local, such as 
human rights, collective actions of resistance and social demands or fight the proposal 
sociopolitical feminism, as well as tools for dissemination and knowledge of the 
indigenous struggle in Chile. Some paper titles were: "The fight for decent housing, 
evictions and struggle between loans office in Bogota," "Mutations of the state and its 
repressive methods: DD.HH. situation in Medellin," "Records of action and collective 
violence in the general strike of May 1977 in La Ceja, Antioquia "," women's movement and 
the libertarian aspirations of the feminist political project in Cali. "

The only local libertarian past days have been a step toward building a local anarchist 
movement. Are traces of a recent history of 11 years of anarchist movement in Colombia, 
conspiring against capital and revolutionizing our minds to operate in the streets. This 
event was created by anarchists to society. It is a space for dialogue, to build our 
identity ... questions remain, differences and flaws that we solved in the way conflicts 
are necessary to mature the processes, which makes them strong.

The union, action and self-management is our way, we hope that by 2010 we could meet in 
the Conference National libertarian.
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