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Latest Headlines:
(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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(en) France, Libertarian Alternative: Out of capitalism to overcome the crisis (fr) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Feb 02 10:54:45 GMT 2012
Officials and profiteers of the crisis, it is not just the bankers who built a fortune on
financial hacks, these are all capitalists who do not stop to pay the employee-es to
increase their profits. We can not expose ourselves to agencies rating and stock market
speculators. We can not be content to harden the rules or moralize capitalism. The only
solution is to rid once and for all of the system based on exploitation and domination.
Refusing to submit to markets, refuse to pay debt A UMP as the PS, political elites
believe that the only way it out is to cut social spending, increase the retirement age to
retirement, to destroy public services and to bleed all employee-es to reassure lenders
and creditors. This is unbearable! If politicians have placed blind faith in financial
markets and if have chosen to increase the debt rather than raise taxes on wealthier they
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(en) Britain, Freedom* December 2011 - GERMAN NEO-NAZI SCANDAL
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Feb 02 10:28:22 GMT 2012
In November, Beate Zchape, the third and last known member of the neo-Nazi extremist
group, National Socialist Underground (NSU), turned herself in to the German police. Two
others, Uwe Bohnhardt and Uwe Mundlos, were found dead, shot in the head. The authorities
claim that they had committed suicides. A fourth suspect, Holgar G, has been recently
arrested. The state, meanwhile, is feigning ‘shock’ over the ‘seriousness’ of the
‘right-wing terror network’. ---- The NSU have been active since the mid-1990s in Jena in
the state of Thuringia, and apparently went ‘underground’ in 1998, carrying out 10 murders
of mostly Turkish and Greek immigrants working in cafes and fast food shops, two nail bomb
attacks and 14 bank robberies. The killings were unsubtly named “kebab murders” or “donor
killings.” The NSU have been branded the Brown Army Faction – the colour in reference to
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(en) US, WSA's Ideas & Actions, A Review of Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Feb 02 10:28:03 GMT 2012
An Overview of Christian Anarchist Theory ---- By Nathan Jun, Midwestern State University,
WSA/TX ---- Alexandre Christoyannopoulosâ Christian Anarchism is a meticulously researched
but readily accessible survey of an often overlooked and frequently misunderstood
anarchist tradition. As he explains in the introduction, âAnarchism is not all there is to
Christianity. The point which some describe as the overlap of the two separate traditions,
however, seems to be precisely where others argue that Christianity logically leads to
some form of anarchismâ The aim of this book is to focus on this overlap, and therefore
solely on the anarchist political implications of Christianity. That is, this book focuses
solely on the view that Christianity implies a (peculiarly Christian) type of anarchismâ (7).
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(en) US, WSA's Ideas & Actions*, Solidarity With The Prisoners in Oakland!
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Feb 01 19:57:20 GMT 2012
The Workers Solidarity Alliance stands in solidarity with all of the people brutalized,
kidnapped, and put in cages by the police in Oakland, California—and around the world—as
more and more people defy the sanctity of private property and capital and put human life
before the profit margins of the people who own and operate our world. --- On January 28,
2012, people from Oakland and beyond bravely attempted to take an abandoned building to
build a community center for living space, organizing infrastructure, medical facilities,
and so on. It is absurd that huge buildings lay empty while families live in the streets
and are denied basic access to shelter, food, and the necessities of human life. But such
is the logic of capitalism. ---- Police in Oakland, acting in the interests of the owners
of society, guarded this empty building by beating people, throwing flash grenades,
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(en) Czech magazine Existence interview "Together against anti-Gypsyism" [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Feb 01 07:31:27 GMT 2012
Interview with members of the AFA and initiatives not racism! responding to racist
demonstration in Sluknov. ---- Racist demonstrations and marches on Åluknovsko from late
summer and early autumn 2011, often grown with the assistance of active neo-Nazis in
something you can without exaggeration be described as nedokonanà attempted pogrom against
the local Roma minority. We were interested in how to respond to this situation, an
organization focused on the issue of fighting racism and fascism, which operate within a
broader anti-authoritarian movement. We asked why the two activists, a member of the
Antifascist Action (AFA) and Michal Pokorny of Initiative No. racism! (INR)---Antifascist
Action (AFA ) ---- 1) Agenda AFA at first glance appears to be primarily "anti-neo-Nazi."
To what extent is due to this agenda capable or willing to respond to events, as they were
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(en) Czech magazine Existence publishes interview "Together against anti-Gypsyism" Prague, 24.1.2012 20:24, (ROMEA)
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Feb 01 07:21:47 GMT 2012
The most recent issue of Existence magazine (1/2012), published by the Czechoslovak
Anarchist Federation (Äeskoslovenskà anarchstickà federace) includes an interview with
members of Anti-fascist Action (AntifaÅistickà akce - AFA) and the No to Racism!
Initiative (Initiativa Ne Rasismu! - INR) about the ongoing racist demonstrations in the
Åluknov foothills. The full interview is available (in Czech only) at
http://www.antifa.cz/content/spolecne-proti-anticiganismu-rozhovor-z-existence.-- The
interview was conducted with two activists, Michal Pokornà of INR and a member of AFA. The
editors of Existence say that "racist demonstrations and marches in the Åluknov region"
have been growing "since the end of the summer and the start of the fall in 2011 with the
assistance of active neo-Nazis into something which it is no exaggeration to call an
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