BY IRINA IVANOVA https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carbon-footprint-wealthy-people-97-percent-cut-un/ This year’s economic shutdowns have done little to reduce the world’s carbon emissions. While pollution has dipped, greenhouse gases keep accumulating in the atmosphere, locking in future decades of climate disruption and extreme weather. A recent United Nations report says the so-called emissions gap — the “difference between where we are likely to […]
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Wild Manifesto: domination, fear and radical disobedience.. Disobeying to be wild again.
Dec 15, 2020. Wild Manifesto: Domination, Fear, and Radical Disobedience
By Eduardo Gudynas at servindi.org translation thefreeonline
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Is there something of the wild left in the 21st century? In the jungles and mountains there are hardly any places that are truly wild or free of any trace of contemporary capitalism. Wild beasts barely survive in a few places, and are best known for television documentaries or behind bars in zoos.
The roar of the cougar can be reproduced from an application on the cell phone. The indigenous should no longer be savage, and if she/he were, it is still not a compliment to many. The wild is tied to the past of engravings and black and white photos, to a history that is left behind. The equation is less savagery and more modernity, less jungle and more plastic.
What does it mean to be wild today? In today’s vocabulary that word has other uses. Some use it to denounce those who wage war or mercenaries in drug gangs as savages. It’s what we hate. But in the opposite sense, wild can also be the slogan in the advertising of a deodorant or a perfume. It is an animal ancestry that some long for.
But wild is not just any word. Much less is it a term without history.
It has marked the future of the global south from the first day of colonization. An attempt was made to appease the foundational fear by imposing civilization on the wild, on other humans and on Nature.
With the passage of time, many people celebrated that the sense of the wild was replaced by ideas such as progress, development or modernization. But there is nothing to celebrate. When the wild lost its guts, the shell that survived was easier to master and control. Obedience is accepted, imposed, even desired.
Faced with the multiple crises that we now face, it is imperative to break with that compliance that leaves us more and more defenseless and immobilized. It is time for disobedience, and for that, we need to be wild again.
Reinventing Savages
Before entering hell there was the jungle, and she was wild. A dark, rough and thick space that aroused fear, as Dante Alighieri made clear in his Divine Comedy (1).
That fear, confessed almost two centuries before the arrival in the Americas, was the burden that the colonizers carried. The first Europeans to set foot on American beaches applied these ideas, turning almost everything around them wild.
They did not invent anything, but instead performed a transatlantic juggling act that transplanted European myths to the American lands and its inhabitants of the Americas (2). They were unable to do otherwise.
In western Europe of those times, wild was the label that was applied to forests, mountains or any other remote place, to wild animals, but also to men and women who lived in those places, the uneducated that they were naked or in worn clothes, covered with hair from head to toe, unable to speak or that if they did, they were very rude (3). An image of uncultivated spaces, undomesticated animals, chaos and disorder.
But what is not always noticed is that the idea of wildness is intimately dependent on fear. That dread that Dante invoked was due to the fact that these places were dangerous to them and the uneducated who inhabited them did not differ from the beasts of the forest. Fear appears again and again associated with the wild, applied both to the environment and to its inhabitants, undifferentiated from each other, and that was the sensitivity that the colonizers installed in our continent.
Adrian Zenz is a Neo-Nazi Christian Misrepresenting China!
Adrian Zenz is a neo-Nazi ethnic German who is in the employ of the US government. His background is in Protestant Christianity and far-right anti-Communist ideology. He is a propagandist for the CIA-administered ‘Memorial for the Victims of Communism’ – a hideous structure housed in a Washington Park which sees an endless sea of American children who are brain-washed to believe that the Nazi German atrocities were committed by the Soviet Red Army. I consider this type of lying to be thoroughly ‘evil’. Adrian Zenz is the sinister figure who lies in the shadows behind all the anti-China articles appearing in the West that are spreading racistlies about the Uyghur people of China. This is the origins of…
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Free Giannis Michailidis and all the young anarchists imprisoned in the Troika jail!
Dec 15 2020 anarchistnews.org By thecollective
via Athens Indymedia
December 12th: International Day of the Persecuted Worker
Free Giannis Michailidis and all the young anarchists imprisoned in the Troika jail!
Free all those detained in the last demonstration for justice by Alexis Grigoropulos, 12 years after his murder!
Free all political prisoners in Greece and the world!
From the International Network for the Liberation of the Political Prisoners of the World and Justice to Our Martyrs, we raise our voice of solidarity and fight for the freedom of Giannis Michailidis and all the political prisoners of Greece.
They are dozens of young anarchists who fought against fascism and the starver anti-worker regime of the Troika and its adjustment plans. They are the ones who fought in solidarity with the refugees, who today are in real concentration camps..
Today, the repression made itself felt again, imprisoning dozens of protesters who took to the streets on December 6 to mark the 12th anniversary of the murder of Alexis Grigoropulos at the hands of the murderous Greek police.
Together with comrade anarchist prisoners we have been fighting together since these years at an international level for the freedom of all political prisoners.
From the prisons of Athens, these comrades raised the cry for the acquittal of the oil workers of Las Heras (Argentina) sentenced to prison and life, and from there we fought together on the action days of December 12, the International Day of the Persecuted Worker.
We were at the New Year’s marches to Koridallos prison, fighting to open the cells where the oppressors have them, and exclaiming “the passion for freedom is stronger than all cells!” We are siblings in the same struggle.
The fight to win the freedom of the comrades is the same fight at the international level for the freedom of the Basque prisoners, George Ibrahim Abdallah, for the acquittal of the oil workers of Las Heras, for the freedom of the Chilean prisoners and all the political prisoners in the world.
Mid-December .. Workers FightBack Roundup
Cleaners win at Great Ormond Street, alleged statue-topplers charged in Bristol, and more workplace and repression news
from Cautiously pessimistic shared with thanks
Another quick round-up of workplace and repression news:
The United Voices of the World union have a big victory to report at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where hundreds of outsourced staff are now being brought in to direct NHS employment. Their other main campaign at the moment is at Sage nursing home in North London, where staff have voted to strike over pay, union recognition, sick pay and annual leave.
“If you are interested in getting involved in the campaign, now is the time, with leafleting happening over the next few weeks.
Leafleting meet up point: ….. Golders Green Station
Times: ….. Wednesday 16th December 5 – 7pm
If you have any questions about the campaign or would like more information on leafleting, please email Isabel and Molly at sagenursinghome@uvwunion.org.uk.”
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International Volunteers in Rojava – Part 1 and 2
- December 9, 2020
by Mark Campbell
It is important to understand from the beginning that the wider Kurdish Movement has always had a strong tradition of internationalism and has attracted non Kurds to their movement long before the Rojava Revolution but it is also true to say that never before have International Volunteers joined with the Kurdish struggle in such numbers.
The Rojava Revolution, is the only multi-religion, feminist, ecological and horizontally organised movement in the whole middle east.
It is also true to say that the International Volunteers have made a widely reported, significant and evidently meaningful contribution to not just the struggle and defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) but also to the development of civil society in North East Syria too, often at huge personal sacrifice.
Context
Following the so called ‘Arab Spring’ – a series of uprisings that began in December 2010 in Tunisia and spread to many countries in the Middle East including Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain – protests began in Syria against the Assad regime. Beginning as social movements against the regime, the conflict quickly became a battlefield for influential powers using proxies to further their regional interests.
The Kurds, taking advantage of Assad’s new situation battling Syrian opposition groups, began a revolution in their own areas that Assad had held them under brutal suppression for decades. They began to build a new society in their newly found freedom and self-control.
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Comunicado sobre el incendio en la nave del Gorg en Badalona .. Esp/Eng
Comunicado sobre el incendio en la nave del Gorg en Badalona
11 diciembre 2020 in https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com
Pablo Casado y Xavier García Albiol atienden las explicaciones de un bombero frente a la nave incendiada en Badalona. / Alejandro Garci
Un día de luto oficial ha decretado el gobierno de la Generalitat y 3 el Ayuntamiento de Badalona. Así quieren demostrar las administraciones su duelo por el incendio de la nave del Gorg con su secuela de muertos y heridos.
Inmigrantes de la nave ‘okupada’ que se incendió este miércoles se manifiestan.. Supervivientes de la nave industrial incendiada en Badalona este miércoles 9 de diciembre, han protestado este jueves por las calles de la ciudad. La mayoría de los okupantes de la nave, que tras prender fuego ha dejado un balance provisional de tres personas muertas y 19 heridos, eran immigrantes de origen senegalés y gambiano que comercian con chatarra por unos míseros euros.
Semejante reacción sobre todo en el caso del alcalde Albiol no reflejan su contrición por los hechos sino el enorme repudio social a su racismo y la solidaridad despertada para con las víctimas.
Con la voz temblorosa y cogiendo aire, los supervivientes en la nave industrial arrasada por las llamas reviven la escena una y otra vez. Seydou Camara, de veintipocos años, natural de Senegal, llegó en patera hace un año a Lampedusa y logró entrar en España en autobús. Recoge chatarra y sobrevive como puede. Ayer, subió a la terraza a hablar por el móvil cuando vio cómo una humareda espesa avanzaba sin parar por el hueco de la escalera. “¿Qué es este humo tan raro?”, se preguntaba. En pocos segundos reaccionó. “Bajé corriendo como puede, no veía nada, pero pude salir”
La actitud de las administraciones es de todas formas, pura hipocresía, porque la tragedia estaba desde hace largo tiempo anunciada y es responsabilidad de las 3 administraciones: El Ayuntamiento de Badalona, el gobierno de la Generalitat y el Gobierno Central. Es por ello que no cabe hablar de simples muertes, son asesinatos.
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