This week’s photo shows the Mendoza Legislature burning with powerlessness and anger over a new victim of sexist violence and state neglect.
Florencia, a 14-year-old girl, was murdered in the city of Maipú, Mendoza. She had been missing since Saturday, December 12, and her body appeared lifeless on Thursday, December 17, with signs of having suffered extreme violence.
The young woman had defended herself with her screams and a neighbor who heard her called 911, but the police who attended her not only did not give her help, but also cut her call.
This situation reveals the little preparation that the police forces have in matters of gender violence. It also expresses the need for the State to make urgent political decisions in the face of the scourge that women and dissidents experience in this macho-patriarchal-violent culture entrenched in the prevailing capitalist system.
According to the MuMaLá observatory, a total of 241 femicides, linked femicides and trans-transvesticides had been registered as of November 31. From these numbers, the horrifying statistics of one femicide every 32 hours can be deduced. in the country.
Madrid. Spanish territory. Analysis of the appropriation of the protest by the far-right and the discourses that the left articulates about it. Anarchist claim to different conflict situations on the streets during the last months.
At dawn on November 1 at 00:00, the curfew started in the Spanish state. At the same time there were calls in the streets to challenge this restriction. The protests had an international echo, as they ended with clashes against the police, smashed shop windows, barricades and sporadic looting.
The left soon put the call to the skies, pointing to the far-right, which was largely behind the calls that night. Unfortunately, it was not easy to join the protests that night and not meet up with a bunch of Nazis, at least in Madrid. But there were many other people who took to the streets that day, many not even right-wing, and there was probably more than one youth without papers, the kind of people that Nazis like so much. [1]
The social leader and deputy of the Colombian municipality of San Sebastián (Cauca, southwest) was assassinated this Friday in the rural area of Timbío, a town also located in that department, confirmed his party, Independent Social Alliance (ASI, center-left) ).
“It is with deep sorrow that we condemn the murder of our councilor of San Sebastián (Cauca), Franco Nativel Salamanca Hoyos, a recognized social and political leader,” the ASI said in a statement.
According to party information, the murder occurred when the social leader was traveling from the city of Popayán (capital of Cauca) to San Sebastián and was approached by several armed men who forced him to get out of a public transport vehicle and shot him immediately.
ASI pointed out that with the death of Salamanca Hoyos there are 296 homicides of social leaders in the country so far this year.
“Mr. Iván Duque (President of Colombia), that this murder and the dozens of massacres that have occurred in your Government do not go unpunished, you can prevent these violent acts if you have the will (…), your indolence is concerning,” said the party in your statement.
Similarly, ASI asked the authorities for a “prompt and timely” clarification of the crime.
For her part, the mayor of Timbío, Maribel Perafán, told the local station Blu Radio that an alleged murderer of the social leader was injured and captured by the police.
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original in Spanish
Asesinan a otro líder social en suroeste de Colombia, el número 296 en el año
El líder social y diputado del municipio colombiano de San Sebastián (Cauca, suroeste) Franco Nativel Salamanca Hoyos fue asesinado este viernes en zona rural de Timbío, localidad ubicada también en ese departamento, confirmó su partido, Alianza Social Independiente (ASI, centro-izquierda).
«Con profundo dolor condenamos el asesinato de nuestro concejal de San Sebastián (Cauca), Franco Nativel Salamanca Hoyos, reconocido líder social y político», señaló la ASI en un comunicado.
Según la información del partido, el asesinato se produjo cuando el líder social viajaba desde la ciudad de Popayán (capital del Cauca) hacia San Sebastián y fue abordado por varios hombres armados que lo obligaron a bajar de un vehículo de transporte público en el que se transportaba y que le dispararon de inmediato.
ASI señaló que con la muerte de Salamanca Hoyos suman 296 los homicidios de líderes sociales en el país en lo que va del año.
«Señor Iván Duque (presidente de Colombia), que este asesinato y las decenas de masacres que han ocurrido en su Gobierno no queden en la impunidad, usted puede evitar estos hechos violentos si tuviera voluntad (…), preocupa su indolencia», expresó el partido en su comunicado.
De igual modo, ASI pidió a las autoridades una «pronta y oportuna» aclaración del crimen.
Por su parte, la alcaldesa de Timbío, Maribel Perafán, dijo a la emisora local Blu Radio que un presunto homicida del líder social quedó herido y fue capturado por la Policía.
In just a matter of months really, Ashera has become one of the defining bands of a new wave of explicitly antifascist neofolk. It is hard to call this a genre since what binds it together is largely not based in the actual sound of music, it is more in a type of negative space. If neofolk has so often been ceded to the far-right, assumed to be a romantic nationalist artform created by and for racists, the very existence of an antifascist neofolk that rejects that world had the effect of being a novelty. Ashera was one of the bands that helped move the concept from a curiosity to a new operative principle. We are now entering an era where hundreds of bands are taking on this mantle, bringing in a massively diverse wave of neofolk, black metal, and intersecting types of music all brought into…
YouTube’s official statement on its decision to do this is very revealing, not so much for what it says as for what it does not say.
At no point does the video publishing platform attempt to argue that it is removing these videos because they jeopardize anyone’s health or safety, as it did when it began deleting videos deemed to be spreading misinformation about Covid-19.
At no point does it attempt to argue that these videos are inciting violence, as it did when it began deleting QAnon videos.
At no point does it claim that these videos are misleading voters, as it initially began collaborating with the US government to prevent, since all the voting is over and…
This December London ABC wants to launch a special prisoner letter-writing: virtual, but with the same aim. Send some warmth and complicity, towards a world without cages or barriers.
“To write a letter just send an email with the content to london_abc(at)riseup.net with the number of the solidarity card of your choice (between 1,2,3 above). Include the name of the prisoner you would like send the letter to (choose fromprisoner list, or the name and the address of someone you know is inside, if not in the list) and the address you want to the reply sent back to, or you can use this address: Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7QX. And we’re done, you-re done, ABC will provide next day delivery.
When you write us the email with the content*(that will remain strictly confidential between few people from ABC London group), don’t forget your name or pseudonym, so we can recognise you in case the person inside writes back to the Freedom Bookshop address.
*content. If it’s a problem for you to share your thoughts, no worries, we understand. But we still encourage you to write: pick a name from the list and do so in your own pace and means.
If it’s the first time for you writing a letter to an inmate have a look here.”
First installment of La Madeja, Anarcofeminist fanzine by Aliss 12 December 2020, created by the anarcho-feminist affinity group Moiras, is published. The objective of this publication is to serve as a tool for reflection in the field of anarcho-feminist thought with a view to its organizational impulse. To Analyze the diversity of ideas present, to generate agreements, synthesis, cohesion, join forces, following the guide of some principles from which the Moiras group has been formed.
This affinity group remains as the permanent writing team in charge of adapting the content to the specific line outlined in this first installment. Text contributions will be accepted from a number yet to be determined, and artistic and literary contributions, preferably by women. The maximum diffusion to the publication is appreciated.
A libertarian greeting from Moiras
ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF.. First installment of La Madeja, Anarcofeminist fanzine
OUR PRINCIPLES
Feminism has led to one of the most profound revolutions in human societies, challenging tradition, law and culture that submit one sex to the other.
Although historically anarchists did not recognize themselves as feminists, the very essence of the movement for the emancipation of women tends, in its evolution, towards anarchist positions, due to its radical challenge to domination. The evolution of feminism in successive waves has surpassed the initial requests for legal equality of those bourgeois suffragettes lucidly criticized by Emma Goldman. We do not want, said the feminists of the 70s, to vote and be like men, we want the revolution of everyday life, because the personal is political.
Despite state and global efforts to capture the women’s movement and remove the sting, feminism is reborn time and again (as is anarchism) because its requests come from the hearts of women, generation after generation, with the natural longing for Liberty. The same as anarchism, demonized by the bourgeoisie, capital and the State, which try in vain to erase its history and its traces, but which is rediscovered again and again by each new generation.
The Moiras Collective is made up of Iberian anarchists, heirs of those Free Women, whom we claim as ancestors, as our ancestors.
Our principles, which are what define the line of our publication, La Madeja, are clear and simple.
We are anarchists. We believe, like Bakunin, that the exercise of power corrupts and submission to power degrades.
We are against hierarchies, we defend free federation, mutual support and pacts between equals. We reject the exploitation of any human being, and we oppose the State, borders and any form of government that is imposed using the monopoly of violence.
The Free 