http://www.ainfos.ca/en/indiez.html a multi-lingual news service by, for, and about anarchists http://www.ainfos.ca/en/indiez.html http://www.ainfos.ca/images/jpg/ainfos2.jpg http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos24238.html The state apparatus in Arizona has been used to repress and persecute immigrants for a while now. The raids and concentration camps of the infamous Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio are now known nationwide. Ironically, the head of the federal department of Homeland Security under President Obama, Janet Napolitano, is the former Governor of that same state. Under her administration things were not different. Arpaio was never challenged when he went out hunting immigrants. Racial profiling has been a daily practice for the repressive police forces in Arizona. ---- On April 19th, 2010, the Arizona Senate passed SB1070, an anti-immigrant racist law that codified what was practiced, expanding it with the power of enforcement. Governor Jan Brewer soon signed it. ... a-infos-en@ainfos.ca 2010-08-01T06:22:02+00:00 http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos24237.html Today (30th of July) names of two activists, arrested in related to criminal case on “hooliganism” after attack against city administration of city of Khimki in Moscow region 28th of July were published in maintream news – Aleksey Gaskarov and Maksim Solopov. --We will not now remind about details of corruption and violations, connected to construction of new Moscow – St. Petersburg highway through Khimki forest, or the protest campaign against it, as you may read about all of this in our website in respective section. Obviously, these arrests were just yet another confirmation of the pathetic unity, which was recently reached between regional and federal authorities, big business, local police and right-wing football hooligans, which all together protected against eco-camp of those protesting the clearing the forest from the highway. ... a-infos-en@ainfos.ca 2010-07-31T09:17:15+00:00 http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos24236.html In This Issue ---- Soup Stock! Page 2 ---- -Direct Action for Migrants’ Rights Gets the Goods, Page 3 ---- The Heros of the Mavi Marmara, Page 4 ---- The Papercut Zine Library and You, Page 5 ---- Anarchy Works, Page 6 ---- Boston Flash Mobs, Page 7 ---- NE(A)N History, Page 8 ---- The BAAM Newsletter is the monthly publication of the Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement, a general union of Boston anarchists. Our publication aims to spread antiauthoritarian ideas and practices, and to report on the social struggles of workers, tenants, students, radicals, and others resisting the repression of the state, bosses, landlords and banks. ---- BAAM Subscriptions ---- In striving to make our publication sustainable, we are offering yearly subscriptions, sent to your door for the ... a-infos-en@ainfos.ca 2010-07-31T08:59:08+00:00 http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos24235.html COME TO THE 5TH EVER PROVIDENCE ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR! FUN! BOOKS! MUSIC! DANCING! REVOLUTION IN THE STREETS! ---- August 14th from 1pm to 1am on Empire Street, Providence, Rhode Island we'll be throwing the 5th annual Anarchist Bookfair as part of local community art center AS220's Foo Fest, a one day bloc party downtown, celebrating their 25th anniversary. The festival this year has a $5 cover and is geared towards a family friendly focus! Bring the kids! In the evening local bands will be playing as the festival takes a street party atmosphere! ---- GROUPS AND VENDORS CONFIRMED SO FAR!----AK Press, Wooden Shoe Books, North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists, Just Seeds, Lucy Parsons Center, PM Press, Symposium Books, Icarus Project, Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement/Anarchist Black Cross, Industrial Workers of the World, Heart and Fist Distro, ... a-infos-en@ainfos.ca 2010-07-31T07:43:05+00:00 http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos24234.html The following Interview was first published on the 29th May 2010 in a German Version on Syndikalismus.tk--- The following Interview about the announced social cuts of the Romanian Government was done with the Comrade Diogenes (30) from Bucharest. He is Anarcho-Syndicalist and a socialworker under contract by the town of Bucharest. From the announced payment-cuts and layoffs he is directly affected.---Syndikalismus.tk: On 19th of may went more then 50.000 workers, teachers and pensioners in Bucharest on the streets. In the shouted slogans they demand the withdrawal of the government. Do you think the demonstration was an success and that the government will take back their decisions of the social- and money cuts? What do you think about the demonstration from 19th of may? ... a-infos-en@ainfos.ca 2010-07-29T19:46:06+00:00 http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos24233.html According to local residents, about 20.00 a group of young people, numbering from 400 to 500 people attacked the administration of Khimki. Young people chanted slogans: "Defend Russian forest", "Strelchenko (Chapter Khimki signed a decree on the construction of logging roads), hands off from the forest", etc. Having a column from the commuter train station and in front of him carrying a huge tranparant "Protecting our forest from the Nazi occupiers!", young people, according to eyewitnesses, the building started throwing stones and smoke bombs. ---- As a result, the building knocked out most of the glasses, there are other injuries.After the "feast kamnemetaniya" lasted a few minutes of the youth managed to disperse. The police did not detain anyone. ... a-infos-en@ainfos.ca 2010-07-29T11:02:34+00:00 http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos24232.html Howard Zinn, professor emeritus at Boston University, is perhaps this country’s premier radical historian. He was an active figure in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements of the 1960s. Today, he speaks all over the country to large and enthusiastic audiences. His book, A People’s History of the U.S. continues to sell in huge numbers. His latest work is Original Zinn. ---- Barsamian: Donald Macedo, in the introduction to On Democratic Education, mentions the Tom Paxton song, “What Did You Learn in School Today?” He quotes a couple of the lyrics.”I learned that Washington never told a lie/I learned that soldiers seldom die/I learned that everybody’s free.” What does a democratic education mean to you? ---- Zinn: To me, a democratic education means many things: it means what you learn in the classroom and what you learn outside the classroom. It means ... a-infos-en@ainfos.ca 2010-07-29T07:57:06+00:00 http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos24231.html September 4 · 12:00pm - 6:00pm Location The Centre, 13-15 Clarence Street, Belfast, BT2 8DY By Just Books Collective More Info The fourth annual Belfast Anarchist Bookfair is taking place on 4th September 2010. There will be discussions, speakers and stalls from a range of campaigns and organisations throughout the day. Nommy vegan food all followed by a social to raise funds for the Just Books Collective. If you would like a stall email organiseireland@yahoo.ie for details. _________________________________________ ... a-infos-en@ainfos.ca 2010-07-28T14:43:27+00:00 http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos24230.html The second issue of the Chilean class-struggle libertarian magazine "Solidaridad" is now available. The publication is a joint effort by the Santiago anarchist organizations Voz Negra, Estrategia Libertaria and the Corriente de Acción Libertaria. This issue has increased in size (16 pages) and costs 300 pesos. For information and contacts, write to publicacion.solidaridad at gmail dot com ---- Editorial (extract): ---- "Ultimately, more than 500,000 workers receive an inadequate minimum wage, a situation which also affects their families (about 2,000,000 people) who can thus barely survive, while the cost of living continues to increase every day. This situation does not depend exclusively on the right-wing government of the day, nor on their predecessors from the Concertación, but directly as a consequence of an economic model that both blocs administer in their own ... a-infos-en@ainfos.ca 2010-07-28T13:33:53+00:00 http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos24229.html Howard Zinn, 85, is a Professor Emeritus of political science at Boston University. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1922 to a poor immigrant family....Although Zinn spent his youthful years helping his parents support the family by working in the shipyards, he started with studies at Columbia University after WWII, where he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in 1958. Later he was appointed as a chairman of the department of history and social sciences at Spelman College, an all-black women's college in Atlanta, GA, where he actively participated in the Civil Rights Movement. ---- From the onset of the Vietnam War he was active within the emerging anti-war movement, and in the following years only stepped up his involvement in movements aspiring towards another, better world. ... a-infos-en@ainfos.ca 2010-07-28T05:12:35+00:00 E-MAIL : yourmail_en http://www.ainfos.ca/syndication/subscribe.php3