The romanian capital saw violent confrontations on the weekend 14./15. of january. About 4.000 people took part in a demonstration which clashed with 2.000 police officers. 247 people got arrested.
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In den letzten Tagen kam es in verschiedenen Städten Rumäniens zu Protesten gegen das von der Regierung eingebrachte Gesundheitsgesetz. Mit diesem Gesetz soll die umfassende Privatisierung des gesamten Gesundheitsbereichs durchgesetzt werden. Am Sonntag (15. Januar 2012) erreichten die sozialen Proteste ihren Höhepunkt. In Bukarest kam es zu mehrstündigen Straßenkämpfen. Polizei und Jandarmerie fügten Demonstranten schwerste Verletzungen zu.
Two years ago, mass media and politicans accepted a revolt against the expansive life in the french occupied teritorium of Mayotte as an social uprising:
The situation did not get better for people wich are not WHITE. Mayotte is called a part of EU but it is a french colony between Madagaskar and Mosambique. Police says 60.000 people are illegal migrants from surrounding islands.
Now there are new tensions and confrontations between poor people and the french police and the media blames this as racism against the RICH and WHITE french elite of Mayotte:
People all over the world are taking their protest to the streets fighting for their rights and freedom to overturn the current conditions. But why not here? The German reality is marked by social exclusion and cuts in the supply of basic essentials. Simultaneously, the media is brainwashing people’s mind against every existing resistance that criticises this inhuman oppression by the state and capital. It isn’t just the police who beat us up or arrest us and it isn’t just the political legislative which establishes laws to enslave us. Also responsible are those people who are not offering resistance to this situation and those who are making it possible through their ever-so-important (wage-) labour so that the “machinery of administration” runs smoothly. This machinery kills in agreement with German bureaucracy whether on the street or from one’s desk. Silence gives consent. We don’t know why hardly anyone says “Stop!”. Maybe it is because it is not yet bad enough for people or is it just the result of a traditional submissiveness resulting from centuries of monarchist and subsequently fascist leadership, which is burnt in people’s brains. There are nearly no noteworthy protests in Germany against the current shitty situation. That’s a fact. For sure, there are demonstrations which are sometimes joined by a quarter of a million people but the majority of these people, most of whom are members of parties and unions, are therefore directly responsible for what is going on here. Besides, these people are not willing to fight for real changes. Just complain and that’s all. Real changes would mean the loss of one’s own social rank and of all the privileges with which some people have made themselves damn comfortable. For example, economical privileges that exist because other parts of the world were continually ransacked. These conditions have been maintained for a long time with brutal force.
Why we don’t demand anything!
(Is this insurrection?):
It makes no sense to go to a government with a list of demands. You cannot hope to find sympathetic ears in a political system which puts power into the hands of politicians who are not even elected by a quarter of the people. They will not listen to concerns dealing with people’s lives but will instead focus on issues with capitalistic relevance. That is why it makes absolutely no sense for us present a list of demands to a government.
We do not have to submit to the rule of those who want to control us!
We do not have to degrade ourselves by pleading and begging!
We have to make sure that the things we don’t like do not exist any more!
It is absolutely possible for us to live a self-determined life. But this will only work if the wish to be ruled and to rule is destroyed, if the state’s repressive apparatus is smashed, if the government is overturned, if the “cop-in-your-head” is killed and to break free from your self-imposed boundaries. Afterwards it will be possible to replace the logic of capitalistic values with collective self-organisation. A fight against the system has to be a part of our everyday life, as anti-hierarchical as possible and we have to show solidarity to one another.
(Is this insurrection?):
Insurrection Days
For many people it is difficult to find access, to organise themselves and to act beyond their own borders. We want to give you an opportunity to get to know one another, to create networks, to fight together and to learn from each other. Together we want to try to take the initiative and to create a climate of insecurity and fear for the state and social authorities, at least for a couple of days. Its aim is to shock the normative structure of the state and social authorities, consequently to question the state’s monopoly on violence. On May Day the police know where and when it could kick-off and were well organised in recent years. However the nights and days before should be defined by us. Sometimes colourful but also in black. Sometimes peaceful and decisive but also with fiery rage.
Special Forces from Berlin Police were not able to support other police forces in the Castor train to Gorleben because they smashed a demonstration of Antifa and kurdish people.
This demonstration was against faschismus, the criminalization of PKK and the collaboration of german secrect service with the Nazi terror group NSU.
Kreuzberg 26/11/2011:
80 cops injured, 100 people arrested.
The train with nuclear waste from La Hague (France) arrived in Gorleben (West Germany).
After a trip of nearly five and a half days from Normandy in France the 13th delivery of processed German nuclear waste reached the “temporary” storage hall in Gorleben, a village in northwest Germany at about 10 pm on Monday +++ Police perpetrated massive violence and breaches of the law against demonstrators, injuring at least 355 with truncheons, gas, dogs, horses and water cannons +++ The 25,000 activists in the county were the second largest number ever +++ Resistance against the shipment began in France where activists reported police violence against them but also an upsurge of anti-nuclear sentiment in the country +++ In the Gorleben area resistance took the form of rail and road squats, chain-ons (one caused a 14-hour delay in the train journey) and massive road traffic disruptions, notably by farmers with tractors and agricultural machinery +++
The forest area between Leitstade and Hitzacker turned into a battlefield. Police spokesman said that about 450 “Chaoten” (witch means Anarchists/Antifa/Antiautoritäre/radical left) attacked police forces in the most violent ways ever seen. These people used guerrilla methods and attacked in small or bigger groups the police with molotovs, stones, sticks, pepperspray, paintbombs, laserpointer and crowlegs.
Police says that patrol cars drove into traps and that 133 cops are injured, 20 of them not able to work anymore. 21 police cars are damaged.
17th of December
Access all areas
Day of action against capitalist urban development and gentrification
Cities are the location of economical constraints and repressive policies all over the world. But at the same time they are contested areas characterised by the fight for self-determination and participation. Presently, we are experiencing crises, social protests and new movements. In order to multiply these conflict lines on the city’s terrain, a day of action against capitalist urban development and gentrification is going to take place. The action day is to create an event which has its place wherever you are fighting and living and relating to squatted projects like Rote Flora in solidarity. ‘Internationale Aufrufe »Access all Areas«’ weiterlesen
The Insurrection—Oakland Style: A History
by Matthew Edwards
Monday Oct 31st, 2011 5:09 PM
This is an unfinished work—a snapshot of history as it occurred, experienced by me, reported on social media, or retold by trusted comrades. It will lack the finality of hindsight. Contained within is my account of the Oakland Insurrection as it has unfolded over the past days and weeks. Both the insurrection and this essay are works of hope. I hope that we push forward on the streets of Oakland, the Bay Area, and everywhere else, to the limit of what is possible—beyond occupation and the proposed general strike to “total freedom” for us all.
#OccupyOakland
Inspired by the uprisings across the world and fueled by the increasingly precarious economic conditions across the United States, a callout was made for an occupation of Wall Street. On September 17, 1000 people occupied the financial hub of the United States and arguably global capitalism. Within days, dozens of towns and cities had their own version of the #Occupy movement—with varying degrees of encampment, protest, and organizing space; within weeks, hundreds of cities were occupied; within a month, over a thousand worldwide.
Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza, renamed Oscar Grant Plaza by many Bay Area residents, was occupied on October 10. Logistical planning started a week before the occupation date, with #OccupyOakland fielding a fully functional canteen, childcare, medic, sound, and general assembly area on day one, with person of color (POC), gender and queer safe spaces soon to follow. #OccupyOakland had the same populist rhetoric regarding the problematic “homogeneous” nature of “#Occupy…”, but pushed the “99%” critique into a decidedly anti-capitalist direction. Coupled with this was a distinctly anti-police and anti-state tone that also translated into anti-oppression organizational forms. ‘Generalstreik in Oakland 2.11.2011′ weiterlesen
Since decades a lot of people are fighting against the use of nuclear power which is the preferred power of the German government.This fight, which was also very militant, brought some successes, but however, Germany is still one of the leading nuclear exporters and operates several nuclear power stations. Ignoring the danger of nuclear power, German nuclear power stations producing new waste every day, even after Fukushima.
This nuclear waste is treated in France and then transported back to Germany by train.
These nuclear waste transports are a focal point in the civil and autonomous resistance. Each year thousands of people try to stop the train. There are always clashes with the police. This year the nuclear waste train will reach the interim storage facility at Gorleben between the 25th and the 28th of November, where the radioactive waste will radiate into space for the next twenty thousand years. To stop this train, there will be numerous protests along the transportation route. You can find more information under http://www.castor2011.org , unfortunately only in German. Everybody who has the time to stop with a lot of people the nuclear waste train directly, has to come to “Wendland” in this period. There will be direct confrontations with the police.
Also the distance from La Hague in France to Dannenberg is suitable for sabotage. To all those who have no time or resources to travel, the call also means to harm the interests of the German atomic state in your region in this period (november and december). The German nuclear state is supported by all its diplomatic missions, German cultural institutions and the major German enterprises. The Deutsche Bahn is the company, which transports the nuclear waste through Germany, the nuclear power stations are built by Siemens and operated by Vattenfall, Eon and RWE. Many banks care with credits for a smooth process of German nuclear business with the goal to earn even in a possible radioactive contamination desaster or in the event of an accident in the reconstruction, as in Chernobyl.
Germany will fall in a deep hollow with its nuclear policy, if they don´t change!
Therefore: decentralized actions against Germany in November and December!
For a life without nuclear waste!
Etwa 200’000 Leute versammeln sich am 15.Oktober in Rom für den Marsch der italienischen Empörten. Einen Marsch, auf den alle antagonistischen Bewegungen gewartet haben. Prekäre, soziale Zentren, Anti-Autoritäre, die Bewegung NO-TAV, Autonome, Basisgewerkschaften, Reformisten, Disobbedienti, Studenten sind alle auf der Strasse, oft mit sehr verschiedenen Zielen.
Von Beginn weg der Demo greifen etwa 1000 Leute – einige hinter dem Transparent „Wir fragen nicht nach einer Zukunft, wir holen uns die Gegenwart zurück“ – die direkten Verantwortlichen unserer Misere an. Ein Luxussupermarkt wird aufgebrochen und geplündert, die Produkte werden an die Demonstranten verteilt. Luxusautos fangen plötzlich zu brennen an, die Schaufenster der Banken fallen und eine italienische Flagge an einem Luxushotel wird abgerissen.
Der Demozug nähert sich dem Kolosseum, es gibt Spannungen zwischen den Pazifisten der Demo und den hunderten von vermummten und behelmten Jugendlichen. ‘Rom: Wenn Empörung zu Wut wird’ weiterlesen
Alejandro Suarez ist 48 Jahre alt und chilenischer Aktivist.
“Hallo Alejandro, berichte uns doch kurz von den Protesten der Studenten und Schüler in Chile?”
“Seit fünf Monaten steht der Schul- und Unibetrieb an vielen Schulen und Universitäten vollkommen still. Die Jugendlichen finden viele verschiedene Protestformen, einige besetzen ihre Schulen und verbarrikadieren die Türen, andere streiken und verweigern die Beteiligung am Unterricht.
Jeden Donnerstag gibt es in allen größeren Städten eine zentrale Demonstration aller Schülerinnen, Schüler und Studenten der betreffenden Städte. In Santiago de Chile, der Hauptstadt, demonstrieren momentan jeden Donnerstag 100.000 bis 180.000 Personen. Die Proteste sind von riesigem Ausmaß, wir haben seit dem Ende der Diktatur von Pinochet, das durch Demonstrationen erzwungen wurde, keine solchen Proteste mehr erlebt.”
“Was sind die Gründe für die Proteste?”
“Das Bildungssystem in Chile wurde 1981 unter der Diktator von Pinochet privatisiert, die staatlichen Mittel wurden aus dem Bildungssystem abgezogen und stattdessen in Subventionen für private Unternehmer gesteckt. Seitdem ist die Qualität der staatlichen Bildung extrem gesunken, gute Bildung gibt es eigentlich nur noch in privaten Schulen und Universitäten, aber die sind extrem teuer. Immoment muss ein Student für einen Uniabschluss ungefähr soviele Schulen aufnehmen, wie auch nötig wären, um ein Haus zu kaufen. Für fünf Jahre Universität zahlen viele Studenten danch 20 Jahre ihre Kredite ab. In der Schule sieht es ganz ähnlich aus.”
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