Anti Policing Uprising goes Viral in US : updates of Solidarity Resistance Actions

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#Minneapolis is a turning point, as the first large scale US grassroots rebellion in the midst of the pandemic, but also because it showed the drive of the people to take action in the face of various forces attempting to push them off the streets. .. #ItsGoingDown

New video appears to show George Floyd kneeled on by 3 officers 

New video posted on social media appears to show THREE Minneapolis Police Department officers kneeling on George Floyd during his arrest.The new video, from a different angle, appears to show Chauvin and two other officers kneeling on Floyd. “I can’t breathe, man,” Floyd says in the new video. “Please, let me stand. Please, man.” This new video appears to have been taken before the Frazier video.  

Police Precinct Burned down in Victory as Resistance goes Nationwide

It’s Going Down @IGD_News As the afternoon wore on, people gathered outside of the precinct, as clashes with police continued. These running street battles escalated as rioters broke into the building, finally forcing police to flee in their vehicles. Once the building was empty, people then began to loot it and then set it on fire. What followed was a festive, party-life atmosphere for several hours while the precinct burned.

This victory over the police by thousands of people taking sustained action daily in the face of massive police violence, mainly young zoomers and millennials, represents a historical moment. As expressed in hours of interviews conducted by Unicorn Riot on the ground in the midst of the uprising, the revolt is not coming from the activist Left, nor from “progressives” or “liberals,” but instead from the local base of proletarian youth in Minneapolis. While the uprising has had a very multi-racial character, across the board there is an understanding that the entire anti-Black system of racialized capitalism must be destroyed.

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As night wore on, solidarity demonstrations were kicking off across the so-called United States. Anarchists organized solidarity demonstrations and marches in Portland and Olympia, while students in Oakland blocked a freeway entrance. In Sacramento, street marches took place, while riots broke out in Fontana, which broke windows at City Hall.

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, two days of protests were organized, with people on Wednesday blocking the 101 freeway; busting out the windows of a police car that attempted to drive into demonstrators. Finally in Phoenix, rowdy street marches gave way to riots, as people lobbed rocks at the Phoenix Police Department.

More riots and clashes with the police continued in Denver, where people fought with police and blocked a freeway, while in Columbus, riots in the street soon led to mass vandalism of the Statehouse. Street-fighting also took place in Louisville, Kentucky, while in New York, clashes with police led to multiple arrests. In the evening, Trump took to Twitter to call protesters “thugs” and announced the arrival of several hundred National Guard troops on the streets of Minneapolis, whom he claimed would potentially open fire on looters.

What follows is a roundup of solidarity protests and riots from across the so-called United States. For a list of upcoming protests and demonstrations, go here.

Pacific Northwest

Olympia, WA: Solidarity demonstration tears down fences keeping people from access Downtown park. Graffiti written. Read report here and here.

Portland, OR: Protest and occupation outside of so-called Justice Center continues into second day. At night, street march launched; blockades of streets.

Trump’s response to Minneapolis threatens to repeat the 1960s…Today Detroit’s Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, to name but one, proposed $9 million to purchase riot-control equipment, including 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 700 shotguns, 1,000 M-1 carbines, 6,000 gas ...

Southwest

Sacramento, CA: Street march blocks streets.



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June 11, 2020 statement from Eric King — anarchistnews.org

From June 11th This is my sixth year in prison and has easily been the hardest. After being accused of assaulting a lieutenant on August 17, 2018, I’ve been in the SHU since. The past two years have shown me a wide scope of state brutality: physical beatings and tortures, psychological games like being kept…

June 11, 2020 statement from Eric King — anarchistnews.org

LOS COMITÉS DE DEFENSA DE LA CNT EN BARCELONA, 5ÂŞ EdiciĂłn

LOS COMITÉS DE DEFENSA DE LA CNT EN BARCELONA, 5ª Edición

PRESENTACIÓN

Este libro, cuya primera ediciĂłn en castellano es de 2011, ha sido traducido al francĂŠs, italiano, inglĂŠs, catalĂĄn y griego. En la quinta ediciĂłn en castellano, corregida y ampliada notablemente, se ha decidido incluir esta presentaciĂłn/introducciĂłn.

www.grupgerminal.org/?q=node/1345 LEER AQUI GRATIS EN PDF o EPUB.. (comprobado 2020) LOSCOMITÉSDEDEFENSADELACNTENBARCELONA (1933-1938) Agustín Guillamón 5ªedición, aumentada y corregida, marzo de 2018 adjuntos en formato pdf y epub

Era ĂŠste el primer libro que consideraba a los ComitĂŠs de Defensa como autĂŠnticos protagonistas indispensables de la RevoluciĂłn de 1936. Hasta entonces la historiografĂ­a no habĂ­a tratado a los comitĂŠs de defensa en profundidad, y sĂłlo aparecĂ­an citados furtivamente en algunos autores.

Las sangrientas jornadas del 3 al 7 de mayo de 1937 – Ser Histórico

Los imitadores y “descubridores” del tema empiezan a ser legión. Y eso está bien, sobre todo cuando se extienden al estudio de los Comités de Defensa fuera de Cataluña, y no se limitan a un mezquino plagio.

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Looted Targets and Trillionaires: Solidarity With the Rebels in Minneapolis.. May 28

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The following editorial looks at the recent revolt in Minneapolis in the context of both the COVID-19 pandemic and the overall social war in the so-called US.

Endlessly, we hear “why are they looting and burning their own community?” As if by geographic proximity, the Targets and Autozones and McDonalds and even the sacred small businesses have ever belonged to the workers and poor who now light them ablaze.

At a time where historic unemployment and disparity meets skyrocketing corporate profits and the advent of the first ‘trillionaire,’ we hear the scolds and defenders of the present order mobilizing to shame those who are reclaiming their time, their labor and their lives.

They remind us that there is a ‘correct’ way of doing things, that there are channels and representatives we must go through to seek justice. Meanwhile, the stores are burning, people are pushing police into retreat, and dancing in the streets.

George Floyd’s life was stolen by the Minneapolis Police Department. Another name on a long list of black lives that have been cut short by police violence. Oscar Grant, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Marcus David Peters, Breonna Taylor…every city has its list.

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Yet it keeps happening. The script runs on repeat every time, wearing people down, retraumatizing families and communities, and ultimately leaving the institutions and police forces who perpetuate it in place – with minor reforms, at best.

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Call for International Days of Solidarity with Prisoners: May 29-31

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Published May 28, 2020. From: https://www.athens.indymedia.org/post/1605149/ Spanish translation below

SOLIDARITY WITH PRISONERS ALL OVER THE WORLD

CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION

The existing health crisis and its management from governments until now, globally, has unmasked the real character of authority, which was hiding itself behind the democratic mask. This oppressive system imposed an ultimate control of life, forbidding everything. Now, all civil liberties have become senseless words. This extreme condition that we live in, reveals that the prison-model is the true capitalistic model of society.

Prison is the most extreme form of bio-politics and extermination. Prisoners are under constant surveillance and control, something that, nowadays is happening to the whole society.

In this period of time, prisoners in Greek prisons are dying, one after another, from minor causes such as rotten teeth etc. Selim Zerolari and Azizel Demiroglou were two prisoners whose deaths we were informed about this month. Mass media, of course, managed to conceal or distort these news. Furthermore, the state has grabbed the opportunity, due to the curfew, to move the most active prisoners, anarchists and others, into other prisons. Silence in the streets gives more power to the state to repress the voices of the imprisoned people.

A quick shot of women's Prison

Womens prison, Colombia

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Bolivia: Drowning in the Agro-Extractivist Whirlpool

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… They forced us to go the route to catastrophe at the hands of multinationals, the agribusiness elite in Bolivia and, also, a chain of smaller soybean producers; along with the existence of increasingly marginalized rural workers, and indigenous territories and badly affected peasant family agriculture ...
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Bolivia in the agroextractivist whirlpool. Transgenics and the new offensive of the state, multinationals and agribusiness.


In the midst of quarantine by COVID-19, on May 8, 2020, the transitional government of AĂąez, gave way to the evaluation of GMOs for soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton and sugar cane, implementing the state policy that in the last fifteen years benefited agroextractivism. The state-capital alliance is renewed and multinational companies such as Monsanto-Bayer, Bioceres come with it, with their genetically modified and agro-toxic seeds. The small peasant and indigenous production that uses and protects native seeds, collectives and organizations that oppose this new attack on comprehensive health and food sovereignty have stood up against this offensive.
On March 18, 2019, the government of Evo Morales, along with private entrepreneurs and the Association of Oilseed and Wheat Producers (ANAPO), an affiliate of the powerful Eastern Agricultural Chamber, signed an agreement to allow the brief evaluation of two GMO soybean seeds (INTACTA and HB4) resistant to glyphosate and glufosinate ammonium, in order to produce the so-called “biodiesel”, according to the “new era of biofuels” in Bolivia and the “ethanolazo” decreed by MAS 2018.
It was a second big step for the agribusiness sectors in Bolivia, after the first one that took place in July 2005, during the transitional presidency of Eduardo Rodriguez VeltzĂŠ, who approved the use of the transgenic soybean RR 40-3-2 [1] .
Soybean Producers Conference, March 2019 (Photo: ANF)
The representatives of ANAPO, the Agricultural Chamber of Small Producers of the East, (CAPPO), and the Single Federation of Peasant and Producer Workers of the Four Northern Provinces, who had signed a statement that March 2019, demanding the approval of the use of seeds transgenics, expressed their satisfaction at the new achievement of approval of transgenic evaluation for the production of “biodiesel”. However, they announced that they would also seek the go-ahead for new GMO events for corn, cotton, and sugar cane:
The executive secretary of the producers of the northern Santa Cruz, Deisy Choque, [and candidate for deputy for the MAS] said that it is expected that in a short time the decree will be enacted allowing the use of these biotechnological events of the grain in the summer campaign […] For the president of the Small Producers Agricultural Chamber (CAPPO), Isidoro Barrientos, this measure is a fundamental advance for Bolivian agriculture, but work will continue to access genetically improved seeds for corn, cotton and sugar cane plantations of sugar.
The events of October and November 2019, temporarily stopped the requests and negotiations that the producers were supporting, which resumed this 2020, when in March of this year the transitional regime of AĂąez authorized the National Biosafety Committee to continue the evaluation for seed HB4 and other transgenic seeds. Business is business and continues no matter what government it is.


On March 6, 2020, in a brief press release, the Vice Ministry of Environment, Biodiversity, Climate Change and Forest Management and Development, as National Competent Environmental Authority (AACN), announced that the National Biosafety Committee had accepted the evaluation of the HB4 transgenic event, based on Supreme Decree 3874 approved by MAS on April 17, 2019.
MONSANTO and Bioceres: Business and state alliances for the health of the population
The introduction of HB4 seed is directly linked to global mega-companies that set the pace and geopolitics of the capitalist “agri-food industry”. In February 2019, the Argentine company Bioceres and ANAPO had presented HB4 seed in Bolivia, resistant to drought and announced as a great alternative for soy producers in the country.
Bioceres is the Argentine company that made a public-private alliance with experts from the UNL – National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), from Argentina, creating INDEAR, which is in charge of “providing R&D services to facilitate the development of new technologies and pro

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Afrin: Turkey’s Den of Thieves, Racists, Rapists and hired Al Qaeda Thugs

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Two years after the invasion of this canton of Rojava, Islamist factions under Turkish control continue to plunder the territory and clash with the civilian population, which nevertheless refuses to leave. Most of them have had to live in very poor conditions in the Shehba refugee camp, under military control of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.


A refugee child of Afrin in the camp of Serdema Ferran Domènech


A fuel truck exploded in late April in the central market of the city of Afrin (in the canton of Rojava, in the northwestern part of the Syrian state), killing about 50 people. While the Turkish government in Ankara blamed the Kurdish forces for the attack, they denied any involvement. Meanwhile, several Syrian opposition parties and organizations, some loyal to Turkey, blamed Turkish authorities for the blast.

This is another chapter in the instability in the canton of Afrin, in the northwestern tip of Syria, a region with a Mediterranean climate where olive trees, streams and small mountains give shape and character to its inhabitants. . There is not a single person in Afrin who is not in love with his land and speaks of it with devotion. Afrin is also one of the three historical cantons of Rojava where Democratic Confederalism – the ideology according to which the Kurdish movement is organized – had developed most successfully.

Paid by the Turkish State., the jihadi mercenaries are given free reign to loot,'confiscate' property and kill or expel residents.

But since 2018 it has been under Turkish occupation. Since then, Ankara has carried out a demographic shift by establishing Arab and Turkmen populations in the area, whether they are Islamist fighters under Turkish orders or displaced families from other parts of Syria.

Barin Kobane-Avesta Xabur and Anna Campbell-our-heroes-murdered by Turkish invasion in-Afrin

The same demographic engineering is taking place in Sere Kaniye and Tell Abyad, areas occupied in October 2019, according to various human rights organizations. However, hundreds of people are reluctant to leave these territories, especially the elderly, who face harsh reprisals from pro-Turkish factions: from rapes to kidnappings in exchange for money or disappearances.

Destroy the forests and erase history

Hasan Hasan ran an English academy in the city of Afrin, which he was forced to abandon due to the invasion. He is currently a member of the Afrin Human Rights Association and is dedicated to documenting violations of rights by the Turkish state. He explains that “Afrin was the richest area of ​​Rojava, or even Syria.” For this reason, the occupation has not been limited to repression of the local population and theft of property, but has taken other forms, such as the plundering of natural resources.

“At least 200,000 olive trees and hundreds of thousands of pines, oaks and other varieties have been cut or uprooted,” says Hassan. Much of the olive trees would have been sold to other regions such as Idlib or Urfa, or processed into firewood and charcoal to cope with the high price of oil and diesel.

This plunder has also affected centuries-old trees in Sufi, Alevi and Yazidi religious shrines. Xudiret Betar, a member of the Yazidi minority, explains that the Proturant militias looted nineteen Yazidi sacred sites. “They steal what they can and destroy what is left.”

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