Se trata de una producciĂłn que cuenta la historia de cuatro mujeres anarquistas de fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX: Virginia Bolten, Juana Rouco, Iris PavĂłn y Ana Piacenza. Se podrĂĄ ver por Canal Encuentro
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) has shown its support for the World Strike for Climate day by joining it in defense of the planet on September 27, 2019.
 On this day of struggle, convened by groups and organizations throughout the State, governments will be required to immediately declare a climatic emergency and take urgent and concrete measures aimed at reducing greenhouse gases.
More than 50 organizations urge citizens to support this strike day in defense of the planet and call a student and consumer strike in the Spanish State.
In this sense, organizations raise the need to adopt a new socio-ecological model âthat does not compromise life as we know itâ, since more than one million species (animals and plants) are on the verge of extinction as a consequence of human activity
Similarly, rising temperatures are also worrisome and will have catastrophic consequences for present and future generations due to sea level rise, more intense and prolonged heat waves, droughts, lack of drinking water, etc.
The signatory organizations of the Alliance for Climate Emergency remind state rulers of the responsibility they have in front of different institutions, so they insist that the fight for the climate emergency must encompass all people.
From CGT, a call has been made to the whole society to support this day of World Strike for Climate and urges to participate in all the events organized for this day throughout the Spanish State.
CGT se suma a la Huelga Mundial por el Clima el prĂłximo 27 de septiembre
MĂĄs de 50 organizaciones instan a la ciudadanĂa a secundar esta jornada de huelga en defensa del planeta y convocan una huelga estudiantil y de consumo en el Estado español
La ConfederaciĂłn General del Trabajo (CGT) ha mostrado su apoyo a la jornada de Huelga Mundial por el Clima sumĂĄndose a la misma en defensa del planeta el prĂłximo 27 de septiembre de 2019.
En esta jornada de lucha, convocada por colectivos y organizaciones de todo el Estado, se exigirĂĄ a los Gobiernos la declaraciĂłn inmediata de la emergencia climĂĄtica y la adopciĂłn de medidas urgentes y concretas encaminadas a la reducciĂłn de gases de efecto invernadero.
En este sentido, las organizaciones plantean la necesidad de adoptar un nuevo modelo socioecolĂłgico âque no comprometa la vida tal y como la conocemosâ, puesto que mĂĄs de un millĂłn de especies (animales y plantas) estĂĄn al borde de la extinciĂłn como consecuencia de la actividad humana.
Las organizaciones firmantes de la Alianza por la Emergencia ClimĂĄtica recuerdan a los gobernantes de los Estados la responsabilidad que tienen al frente de distintas instituciones, por eso insisten en que la lucha por la emergencia climĂĄtica debe englobar a todas las personas.
Desde CGT se ha realizado un llamamiento a toda la sociedad para que secunde esta jornada de Huelga Mundial por el Clima e insta a participar en todos los actos organizados para este dĂa en todo el Estado español
Originally published on Komun-Academy, Written by HĂȘlĂźn AsĂź, 2019
Around the world, currently, thousands of people, especially youth, protest and demand action against climate change. Under the slogan Fridays for future global strikes and mass demonstrations are taking place. In light of the statistics and prognoses about the causes and effects of climate change over the last few years, the climate question has become one of the most urgent questions of our time.
While on one side, individuals must bear responsibility, it is clear that it does not suffice to merely criticize individual lifestyles without challenging larger structural political and economic conditions. Analyzing climate change as independent from capitalism means depoliticizing the issue. In fact, nearly all conditions that have contributed to climate change can be traced back to the capitalist-consumerist system.
El 13 de julio, Willem Van Spronsen fue asesinado por la policĂa mientras llevaba a cabo una acciĂłn para inutilizar la flota de autobuses del Centro de DetenciĂłn del Noroeste, una instalaciĂłn privada para la detenciĂłn y encarcelamiento de inmigrantes.
Su declaraciĂłn final, reproducida a continuaciĂłn, nos transmite que actuĂł en respuesta a las continuas redadas y deportaciones llevadas a cabo por el Servicio de InmigraciĂłn y Control de Aduanas de los Estados Unidos (ICE).
El mismo dĂa se conmemoraba el primer aniversario de una huelga de hambre dentro del mismo Centro de DetenciĂłn. Puedes leer una lista de otros actos de resistencia que han ocurrido dentro del Centro de DetenciĂłn del Noroeste aquĂ.
Luego, los mismos capitalistas se dirigen a los otros trabajadores explotados y les dicen que la pobreza y las desgracias que experimentan son culpa de aquellos que son mĂĄs pobres y mĂĄs oprimidos que ellos. Es difĂcil imaginar una estrategia mĂĄs cĂnica.
La disparidad de derechos entre documentados e indocumentados es un constructo, asĂ como la disparidad en el valor que los nazis construyeron entre judĂos y gentiles. Ambos son meros inventos, no tienen existencia intrĂnseca, excepto como un medio para que un grupo poderoso justifique la violencia contra un grupo menos poderoso.
Los que justifican la obediencia a la ley como un bien en sĂ mismo estĂĄn del lado de los nazis, cuyas leyes condenaron a millones de personas a campos de exterminio, sin mencionar a los racistas que aprobaron la Ley de Esclavos Fugitivos y las leyes de Jim Crow en el sur de Estados Unidos.
Las leyes son simplemente constructos, sin valor en sĂ mismas. MĂĄs todavĂa, muchas veces sirven para legitimar la injusticia frente a la que las personas se oponen con todos sus medios.
Yesterday a man was killed by police outside Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA while allegedly attacking transportation infrastructure.
Today also marks the 1-year anniversary of both a hunger-strike and a camp-blockade at of the same facility.https://t.co/yEHQhfjt98
— Perilous Chronicle (@PerilousPrisons) July 14, 2019
Cuanto mĂĄs se les permita a los defensores de la violencia racista legitimar conceptos inventados como esclavitud y ciudadanĂa, mĂĄs violencia perpetrarĂĄn; redadas, campos de concentraciĂłn y exterminio en masa. Lo hemos visto antes, en la Alemania nazi y en otros lugares, y lo estamos viendo de nuevo hoy en los Estados Unidos. Son miles los asesinatos que ocurren en las zonas fronterizas y miles las asesinadas por la policĂa.
En este sentido, el pueblo judĂo que estĂĄ llevando a cabo bloqueos contra ICE estĂĄ realizando esfuerzos racionales para evitar que se repitan las mismas injusticias impensables que se cometieron contra sus antepasados. Willem Van Spronsen, quien creciĂł en los primeros dĂas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, decidiĂł que habĂa llegado el momento de luchar contra el ascenso del fascismo, tal como lo hizo la gente en los años veinte, treinta y cuarenta.
Todos los dĂas, mercenarios de todo el mundo arriesgan sus vidas al servicio de los ricos y poderosos, obedeciendo Ăłrdenes sin pensar, desperdiciando su capacidad de pensar racionalmente, de sentir compasiĂłn, de responsabilizarse por sus acciones. Millones de personas matan y mueren cada año simplemente para aumentar la riqueza y el poder de los tiranos que los manipulan. Willem Van Spronsen decidiĂł pensar por sĂ mismo. AsumiĂł la responsabilidad personal e hizo lo que pudo para poner fin a lo que reconociĂł como una injusticia. No usĂł la defensa de Nuremberg para excusar sus acciones de la manera en que lo hacen todos los policĂas y carceleros.
En ese sentido, lo que hizo fue heroico.
Recomendamos la declaraciĂłn sobre la acciĂłn de Willem Van Spronsen publicada por La Resistencia, un colectivo de base liderado por inmigrantes indocumentados y ciudadanos estadounidenses con sede en Tacoma, Washington.
Quien estĂĄ decidido a llevar a cabo sus actos no es una persona corajuda. Es simplemente alguien que ha clarificado sus ideas, que se ha dado cuenta de la futilidad de hacer esfuerzos por jugar bien el papel que le ha sido asignado por el capital en la representaciĂłn. Consciente, ataca con frĂa determinaciĂłn. Y al hacerlo se realiza como ser humano. Se realiza a sĂ mismx en el placer. El reino de la muerte desaparece ante sus ojos.
â Alfredo Maria Bonanno
Palabras finales de Willem Van Spronsen
Existe el mal y existe el bien.
Es momento de actuar contra las fuerzas del mal.
El mal dice que una vida vale menos que otra.
El mal dice que el flujo de las mercancĂas es nuestro propĂłsito aquĂ.
El mal dice que los campos de concentraciĂłn para personas consideradas menos importantes son necesarios.
La sirvienta del mal dice que los campos de concentraciĂłn deberĂan ser mĂĄs humanos. Cuidado el centrismo.
Tengo el corazĂłn roto de un padre,
Tengo un cuerpo roto,
Y tengo un aborrecimiento inquebrantable por la injusticia.
Eso es lo que me trae aquĂ.
Esta es mi oportunidad de intentar hacer la diferencia; serĂa ingrato esperar una invitaciĂłn mĂĄs obvia.
Sigo a tres maestros:
Don Pritts, mi guĂa espiritual. âAmor sin acciĂłn es solo una palabraâ.
John Brown, mi guĂa moral. âÂĄLo que se necesita es acciĂłn!â.
Emma Goldman, mi guĂa polĂtica. âSi no puedo bailar, no quiero ser parte de tu revoluciĂłnâ.
En estos dĂas de fanĂĄticos fascistas que se aprovechan de personas vulnerables en nuestras calles, en nombre del estado o apoyados y defendidos por el estado,
En estos dĂas de campos de detenciĂłn/concentraciĂłn altamente rentables y de batallas por la semĂĄntica,
En estos dĂas de desesperanza, bĂșsqueda vacĂa y anhelo vacĂo,
Soy un hombre que los ama tanto a todes y a esta bola giratoria que voy a cumplir la promesa de mi infancia de ser noble.
AquĂ, en estos campos de concentraciĂłn corporativos con fines de lucro.
AquĂ, en Brown y donde hay personas que no se conforman y cubren sus rostros por temor a la policĂa/migra/Proud Boys/âŠ
AquĂ, en un planeta casi agotado por la codicia del mercado.
Soy un pensador de ideas concretas.
Los campos de detenciĂłn son una abominaciĂłn.
No voy a quedarme sin hacer nada.
Realmente no deberĂa tener que argumentar nada mĂĄs que esto.
(Para aquellos que estĂĄn agobiados por mis acciones, espero que hagan con esta carga el mejor uso de ella).
A mis camaradas:
Lamento perderme el resto de la revoluciĂłn.
Gracias por el honor de permitirme vivir a su lado.
Darme espacio para ser Ăștil, para sentir que estaba cumpliendo mis ideales, ha sido el pinĂĄculo espiritual de mi vida.
Hacer lo que pueda para ayudar a defender a mi gente preciosa y maravillosa es una experiencia demasiado rica para describirla.
Mis compañerxs trans me han transformado, solidificando mi convicción de que seremos guiados a un futuro soñado por lxs mås marginadxs de esta sociedad. Lo he soñado tan claramente que no me arrepiento de no ver cómo resulta. Gracias por traerme tan lejos.
Soy antifascista. Estoy con lxs compañerxs de todo el mundo que actĂșan desde el amor de la vida en cada acciĂłn. Compañerxs que entienden que la libertad significa libertad real para todxs y una vida que valga la pena vivir.
ÂĄA mantener la fe!
ÂĄTodo el poder al pueblo!
Bella ciao.
No permitan que sus estĂșpidas agencias gubernamentales gasten dinero âinvestigandoâ este caso. Fui radicalizado en la clase de educaciĂłn cĂvica a los 13 años cuando nos enseñaron sobre el colegio electoral. Fue en ese momento que decidĂ que el statu quo podrĂa ser una casa de naipes. La lectura adicional confirmĂł mis reflexiones. ÂĄRecomiendo altamente la lectura!
On July 13, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while carrying out an action to disable the bus fleet of the Northwest Detention Center, a private facility for the detention and imprisonment of immigrants.
Here is the final message the anarchist fighter Will Van Spronsen left for his comrades before carrying out an armed attack against the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington on July 13th, 2019.
”thereâs wrong and thereâs right.
itâs time to take action against the forces of evil.
evil says one life is worth less than another.
evil says the flow of commerce is our purpose here.
evil says concentration camps for folks deemed lesser are necessary.
the handmaid of evil says the concentration camps should be more humane.
beware the centrist.
i have a fatherâs broken heart
i have a broken down body
and i have an unshakeable abhorrence of injustice
that is what brings me here.
this is my clear opportunity to try to make a difference, iâd be an ingrate to be waiting for a more obvious invitation.
i follow three teachers:
don pritts, my spiritual guide, âlove without action is just a word.â
john brown, my moral guide, âwhat is needed is action!â
emma goldman, my political guide, âif i canât dance, i donât want to be in your revolutionâ
iâm a head in the clouds dreamer, i believe in love and redemption.
i believe weâre going to win.
iâm joyfully revolutionary. (we all should have been reading emma goldman in school instead of the jingo drivel we were fed. but i digress.) (we should all be looking at the photos of the YPJ heroes should we falter and think our dreams are impossible, but i double digress. fight me.)
in these days of fascist hooligans preying on vulnerable people on our streets, in the name of the state or supported and defended by the state,
in these days of highly profitable detention/ concentration camps and a battle over the semantics,
in these days of hopelessness, empty pursuit and endless yearning,
we are living in visible fascism ascendant. (i say visible, because those paying attention watched it survive and thrive under the protection of the state for decades. (see howard zinn, âa peopleâs history of the united states.â) now it unabashedly follows its agenda with open and full cooperation from the government. from governments around the world.
fascism serves the needs of the state serves the needs of business and at your expense. who benefits? jeff bezos, warren buffett, elon musk, tim cook, bill gates, betsy de vos, george soros, donald trump, and need i go on? let me say it again: rich guys, (who think youâre not really all that good.) really dig government, (every government everywhere, including âcommunistâ governments.) because they make the rules that make rich guys richer.
simple.
donât overthink it.
(are you patriots in the back paying attention?)
iâm a man who loves you all and this spinning ball so much that iâm going to fulfill my childhood promise to myself to be noble.
here it is, in these corporate for profit concentration camps.
here it is, in brown and non conforming folks afraid to show their faces for fear of the police/ migra/ proud boys/ beckiesâŠ
here it is, a planet almost used up by the marketâs greed.
iâm a black and white thinker.
detention camps are an abomination.
iâm not standing by.
i really shouldnât have to say any more than this.
i set aside my broken heart and i heal the only way i know how- by being useful.
i efficiently compartmentalize my painâŠ
and i joyfully go about this work.
(to those burdened with the wreckage from my actions, i hope that you will make the best use of that burden.)
to my comrades:
i regret that i will miss the rest of the revolution.
thank you for the honor of having been in your midst.
giving me space to be useful, to feel that i was fulfilling my ideals, has been the spiritual pinnacle of my life.
doing what i can to help defend my precious and wondrous people is an experience too rich to describe.
my trans comrades have transformed me, solidifying my conviction that we will be guided to a dreamed of future by those most marginalized among us today. i have dreamed it so clearly that i have no regret for not seeing how it turns out. thank you for bringing me so far along.
i am antifa, i stand with comrades around the world who act from the love of life in every permutation. comrades who understand that freedom means real freedom for all and a life worth living.
keep the faith!
all power to the people!
bella ciao ”
donât let your silly government agencies waste money âinvestigatingâ this one. i was radicalized in civics class at 13 when we were taught about the electoral college. it was at that point that i decided that the status quo might be a house of cards. further reading confirmed in the positive. i highly recommend reading!
i am not affiliated with any organization, i have disafilliated from any organization who disagree with my choice of tactics.
the semi automatic weapon i used was a cheap, home built unregistered âghostâ ar15, it had six magazines. i strongly encourage comrades and incoming comrades to arm themselves. we are now responsible for defending people from the predatory state: ignore the law in arming yourself if you have the luxury, i did.
13.07.19: Early this morning around 4am our friend and comrade Will Van Spronsen was shot and killed by the Tacoma police. All we know about what lead up to this comes from the cops, who are notoriously corrupt and unreliable sources for such a narrative. The story that we do have is that Will attempted to set fire to several vehicles, outbuildings and a propane tank outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma which houses hundreds of immigrants awaiting hearings or deportations. He successfully set one vehicle on fire and then exchanged gunfire with Tacoma police officers who fatally shot him. He was pronounced dead on the scene. We find his actions inspiring. The vehicles outside the detention facility are used to forcibly remove people from their homes and deport them, often to situations where they will face severe danger or death. Those vehicles being destroyed is only a start of what is needed. We wish the fires Will set had freed all the inmates and razed the entire Northwest Detention Center to the ground. And we miss our friend and wish from the bottom of our hearts that his action had not ended in his death.
Will Van Spronsen was a long-time anarchist, anti-fascist and a kind, loving person. Here in Olympia some of us remember him as a skilled tarp structure builder from the Occupy encampment in 2011. Others remember him from the protests outside the NWDC last summer where he was accused of lunging at a cop and wrapping his arms around the officerâs neck and shoulders, as the officer was trying to arrest a 17-year-old protester. The very next day when he was released from jail he came right back to the encampment outside the center to support the other protesters. He is also remembered as a patient and thoughtful listener who was always willing to hear people out.
We are grief stricken, inspired and enraged by what occurred early this morning. ICE imprisons, tortures and deports hundreds of thousands of people and the brutality and scale of their harm is only escalating. We need every form of resistance, solidarity and passion to fight against ICE and the borders that they defend. Will gave his life fighting ICE we may never know what specifically was going through his head in the last hours of his life but we know that the NWDC must be destroyed and the prisoners must be freed. We do not need heroes, only friends and comrades. Will was simply a human being, and we wish that he was still with us. Itâs doubtless that the cops and the media will attempt to paint him as some sort of monster, but in reality he was a comrade who fought for many years for what he believed in and this morning he was killed doing what he loved; fighting for a better world.
This evening around 8pm roughly 30 anarchists gathered at Percival landing in Olympia WA to remember Will Van Spronsen and to oppose ICE. We held road flares and banners reading âRest In Power Will Van Spronsenâ âAbolish ICEâ âRIP Willâ âFire to the Prisonsâ and âStop Deportation End Incarceration.â We shared stories and memories of Will with each other, laughed, and cried. Some people split off and plastered downtown Olympia with âImmigrants Welcomeâ stickers, while others drove circles around downtown flying the âRest in Power Willâ from the back of a truck.
.. ”Giant vulture funds are fast becoming our landlords. But why should the 1% be allowed to suck our blood forever with impossible mortgages and rents boosted by their disgusting greed? From Berlin to Barcelona and every city we call for rent strikes and occupations. The Raval victory shows that mass resistance and solidarity can WIN”..
Raval neighbors 15 day blockade stops Blackstone eviction of 10 Families
Neighbours in the Raval barrio in Barcelona have held a successful 15 day long resistance campaign from 1st July to block plans by vulture fund Blackstone to evict people by surprise in Carrer Hospital. The blockade was widely supported round the clock with all kinds of activities, workshops, concerts, etcetera.
Evictions in the Raval neighbourhood are a daily occurance , sometimes up to 5 a day. In recent years anarchist groups have promoted a growing practical solidarity network to block evictions and help homeless victims.
The local housing union Sindicat Habitatge Raval@RavalSindicat,held a press conference this morning 15/07/2019 claiming victory after the street was blocked fore 15 days and the legal eviction time ran out. Though illegal evictions are common it’s unlikely in this case as it would cause a riot.
Blackstone has begun negotiating and now offers 7 of the families rent contracts, which would be a ‘first time ever’ for the vulture fund. It seems that, like in the case of the giant Cerberus fund evicting a community garden , Blackstone is being forced to cancel a publicly resisted eviction, in order to quietly go ahead exploiting its other 100,000 properties.
Blackstone (Anticipa) and 32 smaller funds were invited in by the far right PP with tax free incentives and have always employed mob-like practices such as extortion, blackmail, bribes, rental prices which families canât afford (pocketing public subsidies), abusive clauses, and selling apartments before rental contracts end in order to promote the expulsion of the tenants.
The avalanche of homeless families are helped, case by case, by volunteers from the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (Platform for People Affected by Mortgages). It’s a Spanish grassroots organization with over 150 local branches that takes direct action to stop evictions and campaigns for housing rights. For example in June 2018 they occupied Anticipa/Blackstoneâs headquarters in Prat de Llobregat (Barcelona)
Above video: Mass picket outside apartment o Blackstone’s Barcelona manager Mendiluce . This protest tactic is a huge success. The banner above reads ”If you come to our houses we will come to yours. Eduard Mendiluce, Stop the eviction of c/ Hospital 99.”
MAYDAY is the name of a big new Occupied Social Center, occupied on May 1st 2019 in the central Raval area. The building was squatted twice before as a collectivised student residence. It was extremely destroyed after the 2nd eviction and is still being renovated by the new collective and neighbourhood.