The speeches given before and after March for Choice 2016 provided a broad introduction, through the personal stories of the speakers, to the complex intersecting oppressions imposed by the 8th Amendment on women along with some trans-men and non binary people in Ireland. An oppression that doubles up on those who are also in the Asylum system, disabled, or Travellers. If you are used to protests where the speeches are mostly from politicans telling you what you already know this wasn't one of them. ---- It's well worth taking the time to listen to each of the speakers in turn before reaching the rousing conclusion of Mary Coughlan leading the singing of a modified version of Trasna na dTonnta. ---- Louise Bruton of Legless in Dublin speaks at March for Choice 2016 ---- "Today I am marching because I want to know I am in safe hands if I ever get pregnant .. I ...

The ZSP-lWA has been taking part in protests against the possible introduction of draconian anti-abortion laws. These laws would mean a total ban on abortion, even in cases where the baby would be stillborn or the mother could die, in cases where the woman was a child, the victim of rape or incest. It would criminalize not only abortion since miscarriages would be viewed as suspect, require an investigation and also a possible prison sentence. Birth control would also come under fire. ---- The proposals were made through a citizen's bill, which hundreds of thousands of people supported. An opposing bill was also sent to Parliament which would liberalize abortion rights. However, there was not enough support for it and it was thrown out. Despite the fact that some politicians are trying to make political capital on opposing the total ban, there are few ...

Update - Goshia and two other detained persons have just been released ---- Yesterday, October 3, 2016, thousands of people went to protest at the office PiS. A spontaneous manifestation of the police responded to the brutality and aggression. One of the detainees, according to the police "aggressors", is Goshia our Anarchist Club / Bookstore Revenge. Gosia Poznan know everyone - not just as an activist Anarchist Federation, but also a graphic designer, animator of culture, baristke. ---- That day went, like thousands of other people, to support the protest against life-threatening and women's health law. As she stood with a banner at the office of Justice, the police ran the brutal attack. Not all could be saved, and one of the victims was just Goshia. First he was treated with pepper spray, beaten with batons and then dragged into the cordon and dragged to a police ...

The anarchist movement has taken part in all of yesterday's demonstration involved in its organization from the very beginning. Anarchists and anarchists were also present at the office of the Law and Justice, along with thousands of people from all walks of life, critically and radically oriented to the activities of the ruling camp. The anarchist movement, not shirking responsibility, responsibility for participation in the demonstration. ---- Police detained a person associated with our movement, because they were at the forefront of demonstrations, while they themselves officers panicked and beat demonstrantki blindly. Stop proceeded brutal, and two of the three people detained in the night demanded a forensic examination. We do not know what is their version of events, because at this point they are still detained. Currently, the police his incompetence in ...

Join us in a speaking tour on the struggles and lessons of the Chilean port workers with Nelson Francino Valdes, an anarchist, dockworker, and president of the Federation of Portworkers of Iquique! Nelson has been involved in several of the most important struggles and strikes in Chile in recent years, including a month long national strike in 2014. He is in the US as Chile's delegate to the International Dockworkers Council general assembly in Miami and is participating in a short national speaking tour organized by the Industrial Workers of the World and the Black Rose Anarchist Federation. ---- After a vicious CIA-backed military coup in 1973, Chile became a neoliberal test subject of dramatic proportions. Generals and free market economists suppressed labor organizing, privatized the schools, the healthcare system, and other social services. ...

TO FINISH THE AUCTIONS OR OTHERWISE steals OUR LIFE, we will resist ---- In a period of general economic and humanitarian crisis, once violated labor rights and acquired years that salaries and pensions decrease rapidly and unemployment is touching red, the bulk of society living in poverty and misery, thousands of people crammed into detention centers - "accommodation" in appalling living conditions, the SYRIZA-ANEL government in cooperation with banks and always under the supervision of European institutions, proceeds of auctioning a 'residence ,. ---- It is truly remarkable the fact that what no previous governments have managed to sign the first two memoranda, now comes the leftist government to realize and even in the midst of a mismatch social peace and consensus. ...

Montreal September 30th 2016 - At 7pm on October 27th 2016, the events committee of L'Insoumise anarchist bookstore and DIRA anarchist library invites the public to a discussion about the book So much Pretty with its author Cara Hoffman. Carole Lamoureux, who leads many book clubs, will also participate. This free event will take place at DIRA anarchist library at 2035 St-Laurent Boulevard in Montreal. ---- This book has been acclaimed by American critics for its strong political connotation and its strength. The evening will be the occasion to hear Cara Hoffman talk about her creative process as an author and as an anarchist. Since this novel has been translated into French, the event will be bilingual: Carole Lamoureux will read parts of the book so that we can feel the power of its text in Moliere's language. Whispered translation will be available for both ...

This morning took occupation of the Commercial Association of Thessaloniki, against the abolition of the Sunday holiday, the Collegiality anarchists from the east and the Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative (member of the Anarchist Federation). - The abolition of the Sunday holiday, one of the main objectives of the bosses in the years of capitalist crisis is but one more piece of the overall offensive of capital against the working class. - Within the capitalist crisis, the only way for bosses is the devaluation of labor, intensification in order to increase the "productivity" and it's "development". ---- "Productivity" and "development", two words positively charged by the dominant ideology hiding behind them black and uninsured labor, unemployment, the blackmail of wage slavery, the transformation of people into cogs inevitably trapped in capital flows. ...

Today, the referendum which is related to the EU refugee quota is happened in Hungary. The referendum, which asks Hungarians to accept 1.294 refugees legally into their country, is transformed as an anti-refugee campaign by the government of Victor Orban. Both the EU quota and the referendum leave the future of oppressed to the decision of oppressors. We, as the activists who are in Hungary, do not accept the borders which are defined by states and the law. It does not matter the result of the referendum, we keep our struggle and solidarity for no-border, no-deportation, and no-exploitation earth. Neither the Dictatorship of Orban nor EU Democracy! Viva for the ...

The article originally appeared under the title "Building a solidarity network is harder than it seems" in the September 2013 issue of the IWW newspaper, the Industrial Worker. It is a review of the pamphlet Build Your Own Solidarity Network by two members of Seattle Solidarity Network and discusses the authors experience in building a Solidarity Network in Iowa City. Ryan Spourgitis is a former member of Wild Rose Collective and Black Rose/Rosa Negra. ---- By Ryan Spourgitis ---- The Seattle Solidarity Network (SeaSol) is a "workers' and tenants' mutual support organization that fights for specific demands using collective direct action." SeaSol has a dedication to direct action and emphasis on empowering workers and tenants, and they have a very high success rate. Given this, the "SeaSol Model" seems to embody an inspiring new mode of class struggle for the ...

In September, the announcement of the merger between the two giants has created a stir, not only because of its huge price. If the string of monopoly is obvious, it is also worrying that the former manufacturers of Agent Orange or mustard gas will be able to produce together. ---- The spectacular repurchase Monsanto in September, Bayer giant, world number 2 of agrochemicals, would also become the number 1 seed. Note that the economic war that are dedicated apparently large groups rather reflects a logical overlapping interests: his side, Monsanto escapes an economic imbalance, who faced a consumption crisis for farmers, due to the fall agricultural production prices. Bayer, Monsanto merger is therefore used for both groups to maintain their rank within an enhanced competition in the sector of the chemistry of life (agrochemicals, seeds, medicines). ...

On Tuesday, September 27 in Athens, Greek police dash with the hounds and managed a great win against particularly dangerous sexual predator. - The intrepid men of the DIAS group worked with preparedness and alert and prevented a heinous crime from being committed. - They canceled a kids show. - The cops stopped children and young people aged 12 to 22 years close to the University, some of which reside in the occupation immigrants roof "2nd Filoxenion" as going to a theater show. ---- The prosigagan in AT Concord for identification purposes where the withheld for about 7 hours, removing the first-time necessary for communication with parents and lawyers their mobile phones. ---- Then, they forced them to remove their clothing under the pretext of inspection, stripped naked, and sexual innuendo are not missing and their humiliation, he forced them to move to the ...

Alain Guyard philosophy conducts workshops in places where it does not usually progress (in prison, mental hospital ...). On the occasion of the release of the film The Philo vagabond , who follows him in his wanderings, maintenance on the political significance of this commitment for a thought in motion. ---- Alternative Libertaire: you organize meetings with various and diverse audiences, often on the sidelines. It is a political choice? ---- Alain Guyard: No. Philosophy is an address at the margin. In taking shape in antiquity, it is primarily as a technical dislocation mental patterns, emotional and physical structuring people to the page, decent, ordinary. It is intended to marginality, if we mean by marginal one who feels the desire to get out of the "page" to go to the "margin," or one that is already in the room because it was there banished, or even ...

Saturday 8 October: Meet 12pm - 2pm Women-only demo against Foxtons estate agents and police corruption ---- @ClassWar2015 ---- Foxtons Islington Estate Agents, 355 Upper Street, Islington N1 0PD: This is a call to all women who despise police corruption and male violence to come and support this protest. ---- We are not victims! Fuck Foxtons! Fuck the Police! ---- Meet at 5pm @ Foxtons Islington Estate Agents, 355 Upper Street, Islington N1 0PD. ---- Three estate agents got sacked after they attacked a woman without warning, but now ALL CHARGES have been dropped against them! This is a women-only demo, bring banners and music! ---- Foxtons, Islington, Saturday 8th October, 12pm - 2pm ---- Find more London Foxtons here! ---- Camden 2015 ---- Estate agents destroy lives ---- Legitimate action against gentrifying heads? ---- Brixton Foxtons 2015 ---- Says it all ...

C'de Bobo at the "Reclaim June 16" demonstration in Soweto, 2009. ---- The ZACF is saddened to learn of the passing away of comrade Bobo Makhoba in Soweto this Thursday 29 September, at the age of 41, after a long illness. He is survived by his son, to whom we extend our deepest sympathies and condolences - as we do to the rest of his family, friends and comrades. ---- Bobo was a founding member of the ZACF as well as one of the original guerilla electricians for the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee's Operation Khanyisa campaign, which illegally reconnected thousands of households' electricity after it was cut off for non-payment - forcing Eskom, the state electricity utility, to scrap arrears for thousands of Sowetans. ---- Born in KwaNongoma in KwaZulu Natal, Bobo first became involved in politics and struggle in high school, where he joined the Pan African ...

Resolution in solidarity employee Fo.D.S.A. who was beaten wild and termination employer violence and terrorism by the Workers Solidarity Initiative - Bad - Unemployed Heraklion (Crete). The resolution expressed the full support and class solidarity to Manolis Pefkianaki, cleaning worker in Costume company. DSA North Plain SA TAB and colleagues committee and denounced the company for the brutal beating of(Broken ribs) of the elected president of Fo.D.S.A. and alderman in the municipality Peninsula, Vardis Fragkiadaki. Because as added in the statement: The attack on a worker is an attack on all of us will find us against them! In intractable, militant, class struggle for dignity in life and work! There is no call out labor inspection in Heraklion (behind the church of Saint Mina) Wednesday 12/10 at 10:00 to demand the immediate reinstatement and full moral ...

In front of the Polish embassy held the first protest against the adoption of the law restricting the access of Polish women to abortion. ---- Ages over, Ages takes ... I remembered known chorus hit, after the Internet began to spread the news that the Polish Sejm passed the first reading draconic law restricting the access of Polish women to abortion. ---- Compared to the current situation in Poland, where it is possible for a woman to undergo an abortion in the case of threat to their life or health (or if the fetus is malformed, or when the pregnancy as a result of proven / sic! / Rape or incest), decided to Polish lawmakers get to debate the option where it already so cruel act also harder to a complete ban. Left only exception would remain an acute danger to the mother's life. I say to myself, what is probably led to the last minor concession stand? ...

Nothing for weeks and then two come along at once! ---- Apologies for prematurely sending out the autonomy update email a few minutes ago before adding this to it. Obviously your list admins are a bit rusty! ---- Given how exciting this is, and as long-term friends and supports of the radical independent bookfair (RIB) we felt it was important to send this out to you all. ---- Full programme is available http://www.agitcollage.org/ribproject/ or physical copies available in many venues including tonight at the psychiatry and social class discussion http://wp.me/p8f7u-Ih and at CCA. ---- - not by the book - ---- an exhibition and programme of events celebrating ten years of the RIB project ---- 6th-23rd October 2016 ---- Intermedia Gallery ---- Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) ---- 350 Sauchiehall Street ---- Glasgow ---- G2 3JD ...

On Monday, October 3 throughout the country will be held Nationwide Strike Women - a series of protests against the planned tightening the law on abortion. The organizers and the organizers are appealing to all women about not coming to work that day and participated in protests. ---- OZZ Workers' Initiative supports the strike and urges all members and members of a compound of active participation in Monday's protests. Our relationship has consistently spoke out against the ban on abortion and participated in demonstrations and pickets in defense of women's rights. We encourage you to join the fighting, which we are in our workplaces with the struggle for women's right to decide about their own bodies. ---- [Read the position of the National Commission 'strike women now! "][Page action Nationwide Strike Women] ...

We workers are we with our sweat ---- irrigate the land to generate ---- fruits, flowers, t 'goods of the world around us ---- alouloudiasti poor, only the fruitless argatia. ---- We workers are we with our sweat ---- knead bread in the world. ---- Louder and from the swords of our hands, ---- and with all t 'alysodema, diggers and land wealth. ---- Stu the world thisafristes your livelihood, Worker, laws ---- to eat 'injurer without shame! ---- Embrace, siblings, upright! ---- With one heart, one mind. ---- -Dikaiosyni, Banged and shine, Prokopis! ---- Kostis Palamas ---- At dawn the 9/15/2016 Abd Elsalam Ahmed Eldanf, Egyptian worker in GLS Logistic company, 54 and striker falls dead after command employers. The Abd Elsalam Ahmed Eldanf while lying on strike protection, the employer instructs truck company to break it. The result ; The truck driver and worker in the ...