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by Laura Vicente at https://pensarenelmargen and http://acracia.org/anarchism today 5 April, 2022 translation thefreeonline Telegram t.me/thefreeonline illustrations added
Reading this Manifesto by Chiara Bottici [1], at the end of 2021, was a breath of fresh air in the panorama of anarchist feminism which is lacking in ideas, let alone building a social movement, in this country.
Not to underestimate, far from it, all the efforts that are made to build a feminist proposal from anarchism, everything is useful and, especially, in these times.
However, we have to recognize how difficult and slow it is to start it: sometimes due to a lack of ideas, also because activism in other fields leaves little time for the creation of solid anarcho(a)feminist groups with continuity over time. and, finally, often because confrontations dominate the feminist and anarchist space and time and energy are wasted on them.
In addition to reading the Manifesto, I attended the conference in Barcelona (March 7, 2022) in which the author synthesized her ideas, which she explains in a book [2] that has just come out and which I am immersed in reading these days. .
Why a Manifesto? The need for a Manifesto here and now is given by the existence of gendered bodies that are exploited and dominated throughout the world, not because it is presented as a plan that can be given once and for all and applied in all contexts.
The latter would be in flagrant contradiction to the anarchism that impregnates this Manifesto that must be open and in constant development, as the author proposes.
Why Anarchafeminist? Anarchism means that there is no arché (that there is no law, that there is no single principle that explains the oppression of women) and the anarcho concept is feminized to give visibility to the specifically feminist facet within anarchist theory and practice.
Content of the Manifesto (following the idea that the Manifesto is open and in constant development, it should be clear that this is not a summary of the Manifesto, I have made it my own and have chopped it up to my liking).
The author starts from the existence of a global androcracy (political and social supremacy of men). Although patriarchy, which means the law of the male head of the family, has been overthrown in many contexts, the power of men over the “second sex” (a term borrowed from Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’) [3]) continues through death, the state, capital and the imaginal. Bottici dedicates seven of the nine chapters that make up her Manifesto to these four instruments of androcracy.
Death, the State, Capital and the Imaginal.
Regarding death (chapter 1), the author points out the existence of an authentic global gendercide against people perceived as women.
The second instrument of androcracy is the State (chapters 2 and 3) and its gender dimension. The State has always been a tool of a minority (where there are hardly any women) that governs the majority.
El Estado Opresor Es un Macho Violador/The Oppressive State is a macho rapist…-Chile Uprising
Capital (chapter 4) is the third instrument of androcracy, it needs the gender division of labor, in this way it can achieve the extraction of surplus value from productive salaried work and also from unpaid reproductive work.
The author points out that “women” is not an eternal essence or a pre-given object. Women are not objects but processes (the place of a becoming); they are not things but social relations.
Continue reading ““Anarchafeminist Manifesto” by Chiara Bottici (from Laura Vicente: my personal reading).. Eng/Esp. * REPOST 25N-2024*”NO! to another UN “Peace-Keeping” Force to Militarily Occupy Haiti on behalf of a small corrupt US backed exploiting elite
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Uncaptured Media founder Dan Cohen spoke at a Nov. 20 UN Security Council meeting on a U.S. proposal for a UN military intervention in Haiti.
On Wed., Nov. 20, 2024, at 3 p.m., the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met again to discuss whether to deploy another Chapter 7 UN military mission to Haiti, similar to the UN Mission to Stabilize Haiti (MINUSTAH), which deployed from 2004 to 2017
Haiti was occupied by the U.S. military from 1915 to 1934; Again from 1994 to 1995, and by a U.S.-endorsed force 2004 and 2017, plus a…..
The session was prompted by a Nov. 13 resolution adopted by the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) which sought “to encourage the UNSC to urgently support Haiti’s request to transition the MSS [Multinational Security Support] mission into a UNPKO [UN Peace-Keeping Operation] under a United Nations mandate, …”
watch Cohen’s Uncaptured Media FILM here
One must realize that “Haiti’s request” came from the current president of the Anthony Blinken-fashioned Transitional Presidential Council (TPC), Leslie Voltaire, who has no more standing or legitimacy than some random street-vendor selling packets of water in a Port-au-Prince market.
In September, Washington already tried to upgrade the MSS into a UNPKO but could not get it through the UNSC.
As a sort of compromise, on Sep. 30, the council unanimously approved a renewal of the MSS’s mandate for one year, starting Oct. 2. (Russia and China abstained from the vote in 2023.)..
Russia and China,who are wise to Washington’s game, invited Dan Cohen, a well-known and well-respected independent journalist, who has intensively covered Haiti for the past four years, producing five films and many articles on the situation in the country.
Below is the text of Cohen’s address to the UN Security Council.
Kim Ives
The UN Security Council is being asked to approve deployment of another so-called “peace-keeping” mission to Haiti.
Let us recall that Haiti has been under U.S. and UN occupation for 21 of the last 30 years, from 1994 to 2000 by UNMIH, UNSMIH, UNTMIH, and MIPONUH, and from 2004 to 2019 by MINUSTAH and MINUJUSTH.
However, those two plus decades of occupation never achieved their stated goals.
In fact, UN soldiers, under the familiar pretext of “combating gangs”, in one operation that became emblematic of their conduct, wantonly fired some 22,000 bullets into the slum of Cite Soleil, killing residents in their ramshackle houses.
These UN troops were also responsible for crimes against the Haitian people, from the introduction of cholera to the rape of children, for which they were never held accountable. Now, the Haitian people are being asked once again to let UN troops occupy their nation.
Yet it is clear that there is another agenda at play.
The United States’ government, my government, seeks to impose its will on Haiti, with or without the approval of this council.
Don’t take my word for it.
In December 2021, China and Russia voted to limit the Security Council mandate for U.S. trainers to the Haitian National Police to only nine months rather than the 12 months that Washington sought.
This outraged U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, then the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. During a briefing to his committee, Menendez rhetorically asked a State Department official: “Why do you think China and Russia stopped us?” He answered his own question, saying: “They want total unrest in the hemisphere, that’s their whole purpose in this hemisphere, is creating instability.” He added, “At some point we have to think about how we circumvent that.”
In 2023, Washington indeed found a way to circumvent the UN Security Council when it was prevented from once again using this body, as it did in 1994 and 2004, to further its interventionist goals in Haiti. It concocted the Multinational Security Support mission or MSS, which U.S. representative to the UN, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, called “a new way of preserving global peace and security.”
Indeed, the United States has enacted legislation known as the Global Fragility Act, which might be better described as the Crumbling Empire Act.
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This bipartisan legislation, signed into law by President Trump in 2019 and continued under the Biden administration, seeks to combine military force and soft power to push back against the growing influence of China and Russia, which Washington, still applying its long-discredited imperial Monroe Doctrine, sees as a threat.
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Haiti is the pilot case for this new strategy, which the U.S. openly stated it seeks to apply to so-called fragile states around the world, beginning with Libya, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, and Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, and Togo in West Africa.
An intervention would meet stiff armed resistance and cause bloodshed to the Haitian population and among UN troops.
This intervention assumes that the Haitian people are incapable of solving their own problems, an insulting notion to those who know Haitian history. An intervention would be, first and foremost, a violation of Haitian sovereignty. But even more so, it would empower and support the forces which have carried out the most heinous acts of violence in Haiti today.
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The use of Western-made long-range missile systems in the Ukraine conflict has drastically changed its nature, the Russian leader has warned
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a televised address from the Kremlin on Thursday evening, outlining Moscow’s response to recent escalations of the Ukraine conflict.
He revealed that Russia had deployed a new hypersonic missile system in a strike on Ukrainian territory, criticized the United States for escalating tensions, and reiterated Moscow’s willingness to engage in peace talks while blaming Washington for the conflict becoming global in nature.
Putin’s address comes after recent Ukrainian strikes inside Russia’s pre-2014 borders using Western-made long-range missiles, which mark a significant escalation of the conflict. His comments reflect growing tensions between Russia and the NATO countries, and signal the dangers of a potential shift toward a broader confrontation.
Putin confirmed that Russia has used its latest hypersonic ballistic missile system, nicknamed ‘Oreshnik’ (Hazel in English), during a strike on a Ukrainian defense industry facility in Dnepropetrovsk on Thursday morning. The missile is part of Moscow’s new generation of medium-range weapons and reportedly travels at speeds of up to Mach 10 (2.5-3 kilometers per second).
Putin emphasized that no existing air or missile defense systems, including those deployed by the US in Europe, are capable of intercepting the Oreshnik. “There are no means of countering such weapons today,” he said, adding that the strike successfully hit one of Ukraine’s largest Soviet-era industrial complexes producing rocket technology.
Putin accused the US and NATO of deliberately escalating the crisis by providing Kiev with long-range, high-precision weapons capable of striking Russian territory. This week, Ukraine used American-made ATACMS missiles and British Storm Shadow systems to strike targets in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk Regions.
Putin said these attacks demonstrate the West’s intent to transform the Ukraine conflict into a global war. He stressed that these weapons could not be used without the direct involvement of US and NATO military specialists. “This regional conflict provoked by the West has now acquired global elements,” the president declared.
Putin highlighted the strategic advantage of Moscow’s new missile technology, stating that Western defense systems, including those at US bases in Europe, are powerless to intercept them. He framed the deployment of the Oreshnik system as a response to NATO’s increasingly aggressive actions, including Washington’s withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 2019. “Missiles like Oreshnik are our answer to NATO’s plans to deploy medium- and shorter-range missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific,” he said.
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Athens explosion: Prominent anarchist arrested, solidarity actions worldwide
From Freedom News UK
“No one will be left alone against the repressive campaign of the state and capital”, declare demonstrators
~ Kit Dimou ~
Greek anarchist Nikos Romanos has been arrested in connection with the explosion in an Athens flat on 31 October, which authorities attribute to a bomb-making accident.
Nikos Romanos. (a previous arrest)
According to media reports, Romanos’s fingerprint was found on a bag containing an unused weapon in the blown-up apartment.
The explosion killed Kyriakos Ximitiris, a long-term activist in the anarchist milieu, and seriously injured another long-term comrade, Marianna M..
(Grecia) Gestos en memoria del compañero Kyriakos y en solidaridad….
Two other individuals connected to the flat were also arrested, allowing the police to invoke anti-terrorism legislation.
Marianna M. underwent multiple surgeries and remains heavily injured, but was nevertheless recently transferred to Korydallos prison, which does not even have a hospital.
Romanos, who was arrested on 18 November as he was returning to his home, is well-known to the Greek public as a friend of Alexis Grigoropoulos and an eyewitness to his police murder, which triggered the 2008 uprising in the country.
Romanos was in prison between 2012-2019, sentenced for possessing and planting explosive devices and for participating in two bank robberies.
While in prison he went on hunger strike after authorities refused him access to further education, drawing support from a mass mobilisation on the streets of Athens.
Over the weekend, actions, assemblies and demonstrations in memory of Ximitiris and in solidarity with the imprisoned comrades took place in response to an international call for action.
In the quarter of Exarcheia in Athens, a political memorial was held where statements written by Marianna and comrades in Greece and Germany were read out.
Banner in the Basque country. Photo: Athens Indymedia
The event continued with a march to the Polytechnic university, commemorating the 51st anniversary of the 1973 student uprising.
From Bari (South of italy) in memory of Kyriakos and in solidarity with …
The demonstration passed in front of the US and Israeli embassies with a banner in his memory and in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance.
In Thessaloniki, the parallel demonstration ended in a mass petrol bomb attack on the police, although there were fewer commemorative clashes than expected.
Solidarity actions also took place in London and Glasgow. In Rome, two people were arrested and fined for dropping a solidarity banner in front of the Colosseum.
Anarchists across the Iberian peninsula have also dropped banners in memory of Ximitiris. In Hamburg, several dozen angry people marched unannounced and masked through the St. Pauli district.
Slogans were sprayed, fireworks set off,and an office of the ruling Social Democratic party was attacked.
A convergence of insurrectionary cells in Chile have written a letter to Kyriakos and Marianna titled “A death in action is an eternal call to struggle“.
Banner action in Rome. Athens Indymedia
Romanos is expected to appear in court again on Friday to state his defence.
Top photo: Solidarity demonstration in Leipzig. Athens Indymedia
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A stocktaking plenary in the morning revealed the persistent differences between parties on key issues including the new finance goal.
A group of countries pledged to commit to no new unabated coal in their next national climate plans.
The COP29 Declaration on Enhanced Action in Tourism was announced.
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