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From the ZAD to Val Susa !
From Hambacher Forst to Square Taksim ?
Why not in your place ?

Resistance and Sabotage !

This call-out is motivated by
– the call-out of the NoTAV movement at Val di Susa in Italy
calling for a national day (22 02 2014) of mobilisation and action, each one in their area, city, environment.
– the call-out of the ZAD movement at Notre-dame-des-Landes in France
calling  for a national manifestation in Nantes, France

    This  is a call-out for actions and manifestations on the 22  February 2014 !

A day of action and sabotage to abolish all those megalomaniacs, devastating projects with the illusions of a durable development, green capitalism, geo-engeenering !
A day of action and sabotage to regain our freedom and rights to take decisions about our own lives, our environment, our planet,( in a emancipated manner),
instead of those in position of global decision-making, who are using the flag of democracy to impose their society of totalitarian power.
A day of action and sabotage to bring to a halt the destructions and exploitation of entire species, the waste of tons of raw materials and natural resources
everyday, justified by the term ‘public  interest’, while behind it there’s only money, profit and capital.
A day  of action and in solidarity with all those who fight, and for all those that lost their freedom and especially all those that are oppressed or imprisoned as “terrorists” or as simple delinquents.
A day of action and convergence with all those struggles heading for a different world, where life and common values are worth more than money, competition  and dominance.
No border ! No Nation ! No Pasaran ! No more BULLSHIT !

From the ZAD to Val Susa !
From Hambacher Forst to Square Taksim ?
From Calais to Lampedusa
Hambourg to Exarchia
From Heathrow to Atenco
From Valogne to Wendland
From Niscemi to Mayo
Monte Belo to Khimki
Fukushima to Tshernobyle
From prison to prison

Resistance et Sabotage !

signatures
A few persons from a ZAD.
And YOU ? (Send us a mail if you want to sign the call-out !)

Here the two strong calls from the NO-TAV Movement and the ZAD-occupation movement against the Airport in Notre dame des Landes :

Call for a national day of mobilization and struggle by the coordination committees of the NoTav Movement

Saturday, February 22 – National Day of Struggle
The coordination committees of  the NoTav movement, met up Wednesday 8th January 2014 in Villar Focchiardo, attentively assessed the very serious legal situation created by the recent arrests of Chiara, Claudio, Mattia and Niccolò, which has built a wall of juridical charges, developed to simply intimidate all sacrosanct struggles, which, also thanks to NoTav movement, are growing up in the country.

We actually noticed that in the trial record, investigators insisting on strictly legal terms, support a clear political thesis. Based on a brief history of legal acts and international summits which led to the installation of the construction site “Chiomonte” in Val Susa, the judges argue that it’s a democratic development. Whether action against the site – in connection with the listing of opposition practices whose thick file provides a long list – is defined “terrorist” not so much for its specific characteristics, but by the fact that’s opposing to an intergovernmental decision ? All decisions imposed by the state have a legal packaging, which means they are strictly based on the law. Everyone who puts a state project under discussion is liable to “terrorism”. This leaves only the platonic disagreement to be reduced to a movement of opinion ? Giving a specific character to its own “NO”, which at bottom is the essential characteristic of No-Tav movement, becomes undemocratic. Totalitarianism today speaks a different language: “You don’t like our democratic decisions ? You’re a terrorist, I’ll lock you up in jail and throw away the key “.

Let’s recall that from one period to another, the state and “strong powers” frontally attack the enemy on its strengths, not on it’s weak points. It becomes clear that the use of the category of terrorism against the No-Tav movement – for what it expresses and symbolizes – is in this sense a warning to all, for whatever other struggle movement. Thus becomes a terrorist anyone who’s disputing the decisions of the state, and dismantling the social pact designed by the Constituent Assembly.

Following up the logic of prosecutors and Rinaudo Padalino, the “terrorist” nature of the struggle against the Tav does not characterize a so-called “qualitative leap”, but its nature itself: this “NO” of twenty years experience, knowledge, confrontations and actions that are its consistent development. Not to be resigned in front of batons, gas, mechanical shovels, the Lince (economic and commercial expertise in Italy, ndt), incarcerations, the media terrorism, that’s the crime that contains all others.

For these reasons the NoTav Movement announces and proposes a national day of engagement and struggle, FEBRUARY 22, each in their own area, to all components of the fight that resist and fight against the waste of public resources, against the devastation of the territory, the right to housing for decent work, safe and paid fairly. A national day of struggle, area by area in defence of natural and constitutional right to veto government decisions that reflect the interests of powerful lobbies, banks and mafias at the expense of the people. Joint mobilization against the delirious use of laws on the part of prosecutors and the judiciary of Turin in solidarity with imprisoned comrades, with those comrades already condemned, and countless resistant which still face judgement for defending commons, a day of struggle that will follow in mid-March with a meeting point in Rome for the defence and the legitimacy of social struggles.

In preparation for the day of the struggle, we invite to call up for meetings in other areas to raise awareness on these issues as much as on projects that are opposed. In the Susa Valley about the construction of the motorway parking “Susa San Didero”, the area where they want to de-place the road from “Guida Sicura de Susa” à “Avigliana” and the railway line in the area of Borgone. Proposal approved by the coordination committees NoTav Movement.

Voices and Call-out from the ZAD to Val Susa : 
Resistance and Sabotage !

Destroying and devastating everything to go faster, to control Spaces and individuals, to gain always more money. Developing and making us believe that we can’t oppose it ourselves to those that oppresses us. This is the logic of the societies in which we live. It is the project of the Airport Notre-Dames-des-Landes . It is the one which transforms and bungles entire towns and villages where the poor people untangle. It is also the one of the TGV line ( TAV ) between Turin and Lyon which would have to go through the Val Susa Valley, digging the longest tunnel in Europe ( 57 km ) in the mountains, while crushing the rage of all those who are struggling since 20 years against.

Who fights against the Airport in NddL and the world who brings it with, can also recognize themselves in the No-TAV struggle. States and companies would like to have us docile and resigned. But in Val Susa as on the Zad, many people decided that the projects will not see daylight, and are not limited to passively ask policy-makers or continuing shouting “NO” which has been ignored for years. They act up and are experimenting with a diversity of actions to oppose to despoilment and devastation.

Against the attacks of the state, they are resisting and choose to be in solidarity with each others. When cops and soldiers came to evict and destroy, the Zad was responding massively and our determination has thwarted their intervention.

In Val de Susa, it’s more than two years that the state, its cops and soldiers, built a fortress to “protect” the building site of Maddalena. But the movement continues day and night to cut fences , block machines , to manifest despite the barbed wire, the cameras, batons, tear gas and other repressive offensive. On the night of 13 to 14 May, an anonymous thirty No-Tav activists attacked the construction site of the High-Speed-Train in Val de Susa, by entering inside and burning down materials and equipment. This fast and accurate action had demonstrated, once again, that the fortress of “La Maddalena” is not untouchable and it is possible to stop the operation. Sabotage as part of the struggle, which was supported publicly by the No-Tav movement.

On 9 December 2013, the political police, on the orders of prosecutors of Turin and Milan, jailed four comrades, Chiara, MaTTia, Niccolo and Claudio, for “attack with purpose of terrorism”. They are accused of participation in the action of May. The accusations revolve around Article 270 of the Italian Criminal Code: “causing harm to Italy and the European Union with the objective of forcing legitimate national and European authorities to refrain from engaging and financing on the high-speed-rail-line between Lyon and Turin”. The appearance of these accusations against the No-Tav activists does not come from nowhere. Faced with a movement of struggle that confronts state decisions and reinforces the diversity of actions and the number of individuals who take part, the state is in trouble, so they are playing the card of “terrorist” repression. It is necessary to take into account that this juristic weapon is used by the power against the movement as a whole. The state imposes its decisions “democratically” based on the force of law and legality, legitimacy, making them compelling. Democracy is a like a reinforced door against any form of disagreement, in exception they concede moaning. The disagreement does not stop, the door is reinforced with barbed wire and soldiers. The disagreement is resistance and sabotage, it reveals the “terrorist purposes” of the fight. The power and speaks a clear language: “You dont like our democratic decisions and you act against ? You are a terrorist!”. Movements against the TAV and the Airport gave concreteness to a clear “NO” through years of experience, knowledge, confrontations and actions. It is this determination that becomes Anti-democratic and terrorist, not a specific action: the attack on the site that night. This repressive offensive is the application of a device thought against any social conflict, and can hit any struggle. It is important to respond as massive as possible .

Terrorists are those who vandalize and destroy our lives and the spaces we inhabit. The terrorist is the state. Support for all those comrades detained and charged is not only an act of solidarity, but the determined claim of struggle and its reasons in Val Susa, the Zad and everywhere.

On February 22, a day of solidarity action was called by the Movement NoTav. The event of 22 February 2014 in Nantes against the airport is an opportunity to scream our support towards our comrades and share the same breath of determination : the fight does not stop !
Freedom for Mattia , Chiara , Claudio e Nicco.
Freedom for All
For more information on the NoTav struggle
on the arrests (in Italian)
on the struggle against the Airport

Feeling acting up ? Feeling like lettings us know and share ?

get in touch here

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Sunday, 19th of January at 15h in Klit

DEGETOAICA, 3′

photos by: Cosmin Bumbuț, 2011

Location: Tîrgșor Women Penitentiary, România

This is a photo-reportage of queer/ genderbending people in romanian women-only prison. Degetoaica would have a rather awkward translation as part of the prison culture of “girlboys”. So, only with reservations termed girlboys are usually described as women who, during prison detention, assume a male identity. They go by their male names and male pronouns, that even the guards acknowledge. They have “wives” who tidy up, do the laundry and wash the dishes for them. Girlboys protect them, fulfill their emotional needs and offer them sexual pleasure. They clinch their fists and demand respect. Out of the prison some of these women are married, have children, assumed/complied to a cis identification. Many keep returning to the prison. The situation with prison staff is very ambiguous and some of them have complained that having had assumed this “degetoaica” identity, it affected and decreased their chances to get an earlier release.

These are declared non lesbian relationships that some have only in detention. Other, continue their relationships after they are released. Most of them are old offenders. Almost all have suffered sexual abuse. One of the individual stories is of a woman who became a degetoaica in prison, there began a relationship with a woman, continued their relationship after being freed and now they are again imprisoned together, for committing a theft [also together].

Our sunday presenter Rox, tackles on this most interesting phenomenon further on: “Btw, “degetoaice” comes from “deget” which means a finger. maybe i could somehow translate the term as: “big woman-finger”, “big finger-woman” if that makes any sense? One of them was saying how between the degetoaica and their female partner, the roles are fixed, and only the degetoaica is allowed to take the “active role” during sex. I am quoting: “only the “boy” is allowed to touch her girlfriend, without the latter being active in any way” and “the difference between us and lesbians is that they use their tongues on one another,”” Our comrade Infoshop activist and gender student from Romania will be willing to discuss and answer our questions on this topic.

Additionally to this exceptional, short photo reportage we will screen another documentary film, from different cultural context and will try to reflect on gender/sexuality/race (class) of them in critical dialogue.

The AGGRESSIVES, 2005

By: Daniel Peddle

Duration: 75′

another gender bending variant of female sexual/racial negotiation in harsh social environments. Remember the gay drag ball culture in Paris is burning, from beginning of the 90ies by which we were able to learn on performativity of gender? Could AG be considered a masculinity without men, as Halberstam phrases it?

“Aggressive” is the term used by women of color, much like the way “butch” is used to describe some lesbian women. (In fact, the only thing the film didn’t do which I would have liked is mention the use of the word, how it came about, how it’s different or perceived as different from butch by the women who use it to describe themselves.) Effectively “aggressive” describes women who are more masculine in both appearance, physique, and attitude. Some of them identify as trans, yet many were also very clear about the fact that they are women and lesbians.

The film told the stories of five different aggressive women over a five-year period. One was Korean, the others of African-American descent. They talked about who they liked to date (lesbians for the most part, though one also dated transwomen, and got fed up with dating them by the film’s end, and wanted a “real girl” for a girlfriend instead); how they experienced their identities, and what it was about them that was masculine, and how they made it work. (from Helen Boyd blog post on the Aggressives)

Join us for screening and discussion, on Sunday, 19th of January at 15h in Klit.

For the exact location of Klit, please write to fork@riseup.net

http://klitbudapest.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/infoshop-and-rqac-joint-sunday-documentary-film-screening-event/

https://www.facebook.com/events/600867166648809

We will talk about current situation in Hungary. It will concern the scandal with the Taxation Agency, student movements, political moods and pr-electoral mood, as well as about many other things.

Monday 6 Jan

18:00

Klit

In October this year, Budapest Infoshop hosted an event marking our complete opposition to speciesist thinking and a particular manifestation of it through the new law voted by the romanian parliament to hunt down the stray/homeless dogs, incarcerate and kill them after 14 days.

On December the 11th, the government approved the methodological norms for the bill, which means from now on the slaughters will begin.

Furthermore, it seems bosnia & herzegovina’s authorities are currently in the process of deliberating on a similar law.

Budapest Insfohop is expressing it’s solidarity with all nonhuman/human animals struggling against these new laws.

BITE BACK!

Saturday at 6pm in Golya, Budapest

Mali Prijatelji (Little Friends) is a DIY kindergarten run out of an infoshop in the Karaburma neighborhood of Belgrade. It is collectively and autonomously operated by a committed group of people sympathetic to anarchism and anti-fascism; it has no legal status and it does not work with NGOs. The children come from one of the poorest and largest Roma settlements in Belgrade, Deponije, and range from 4 to 7 years old. This presentation will discuss the aims, development, trials and successes of this project and and answer your questions about it. Donations for Mali Prijatelji will be accepted to help with purchasing new supplies and toys as well as feeding and clothing the children throughout the winter.

Presentation in English by Freddie Schulze.

viciouslyoffcenter.wordpress.com/2013/12/04/little-friends/

[magyar]:

New feminist social centre in Bucharest!

Solidarity from Budapest with ‘Sofia Nadejde’, the new anarcha-feminist social space in south romania. Opened Saturday the 7^th December, Sofia Nadejde hosts the FIA (women/girls/feminism in action/activism) mobile library, as well as the feminist reading group. It will provide space and infrastructure for a variety of feminist groups and actions. As a community centre, it will host discussions and meetings. There will be a vegan café every week and also a reading room. Also, there will be spaces for sewing, film projections, storage and other activities.

Contact the collective at ‘Centru feminist Sofia Nadejde’ cfsn@riseup.net.

More details will be found here http://centrufeminist.wordpress.com/

The Budapest Infoshop invites you to a discussion about the recent resistance movements in ukraine and romania. In Kiev, hundreds of thousands of people are on the streets, protesting the government and the political system. In Pungesti, local villagers are resisting the riot police and the thugs of Chevron, as the oil company tries to set up fracking gas facilities in the area. We will talk about these issues and other related movements in these regions.
Also, on Monday we release the third issue of the zine ‘Buruieni‘, dedicated to more than ten years of anarchist and anticapitalist struggles in romanian cities. Other zines and printed materials related to the discussions will be available. tea and popcorn as well.  bring a friend!
WHEN: Monday, 9 december, 18:00
WHERE: Klit feminist queer social space (for exact adress email fork@riseup.net)
free entrance

This is the Hungarian translation of our previous announcement about Pungesti, east romania:
Pungestiben,Észak-Romániában a helyiek ellenállásba kezdtek  Chevron tervezett földgáz kitermelési szándéka ellen.

A helyi lakosság és a nemzetközi közvélemény hatására a Chevron csökkentette Pungesti környéki aktivitását.

Legalábbis december 1-ig,amikor hajnali hat óra körül támadást intéztek a földgázkitermelés ellenzői ellen.

A rohamrendőrség és a Chevron összefogtak a palagáz kitermelés ellen tiltakozó helyiek proteszt-táborát,mely a Chevron által a palagáz kitermelésre kiszemelt helyszínre vezető úton állt.  Két hónapig tartó békés tiltakozásra való válaszképp a rendőrök összevertek és letartóztattak 40 tiltakozót,akiket később egy közeli városba szállítottak kihallgatásra.

A készenléti rendőrség szóvivője eleinte nem kívánt nyilatkozni az ügyben,egy később kiadott nyilatkozatában pedig cáfolni próbálta a tiltakozók készenléti rendőrség által megtörtént bántalmazásának tényét,aminek nagy mértékben ellentmond a beavatkozásban résztvevő rendőrök a beavatkozás képi rögzítésének megakadályozására tett kísérletei. A rendőrség és a Chevron megpróbálja megakadályozni az újságírókat a felszámolás alatt levő proteszt-tábor megközelítésében,a helyszínre vezető utat rendőri csapatszállítók és a Chevron járművei blokkolják.

Egy,a helyszínen tartózkodó személy beszámolója:  “Megérkeztünk Pungestibe,de nem tudunk a proteszt-táborban maradni,mert megszállta a rendőrség és a készenléti rendőrség. Idefelé jövet rengeteg rendőri csapatszállító jármű mellett haladtunk el. A rendőrség Silisteában is blokkolja tiltakozás helyszínére vezető utat,a készenléti rendőrséghez tartozó állomány tagjai úttorlaszokat helyeztek ki és szigorú megfigyelés alatt tartják a helyszínt. Az torlaszon csak azután engedtek át bennünket,miután közöltük velük,hogy egy Pungestitől távol fekvő városba igyekszünk. Ekkor még nem tudtuk,hogy nem foguk tudni bejutni a proteszt-tábor helyszínére, ahol az ott tiltakozók még folytatják a rendőri erőszakkal szembeni ellenállásukat. Miután világossá vált,hogy nem tudunk bejutni a tiltakozás közvetlen helyszínére,visszatértünk Silisteába,ahol a palagáz kitermelés elleni tiltakozásnak egy kisebb támogatói bázisa van,és valami működő stratégiát próbálunk kitalálni az ellenállás folytatásához. Szörnyű,mi Pungestiben történik. Mindenkit aki teheti kérünk,hogy mobilizáljon és jöjjön ide.Az eddig tiltakozók nagy része megsérült a rendőri erőszakban és traumatizált.Terjesszétek!”

A rendőri blokád annyira kiterjedt,hogy a tanköteles gyerekek sem tudnak eljutni iskoláikba. A teljes helyi közösség mindennapi élete lett többszörösen felforgatva. Az útlezárás sem a helyiek érdekeit szolgálja, a tiltakozásban tevőleg nem résztvevő helyiek sem tudnak eljutni munkahelyeikre,és a sajtó képviselőit Pungestitől több kilómlteres távolságban tartóztatják fel a rendőrök.

A jogsértő rendőri beavatkozás annak minden részletében a helyi hatalmasságok a rendőrség és a Chevron által lett eltervezve azzal a céllal, hogy az energetikai cég az általa kinézett helyszínen zavartalanul felállíthassa palagáz pontos kitermelési helyének megállapításához és későbbi kitermeléséhez szükséges(súlyosan környezetkárosító) műszaki eszközrendszert,annak ellenére, hogy Tom Holst,a Chevron Romániai menedzsere előzetesen leszögezte;a Chevron a jövőben mindenféle aktivitástól távol tartja magát Pungestiben addig,amíg nem nyeri el a helyi közösség  a palagáz kitermelésével kapcsolatos beleegyezését.

A rendőrség és a Chevron jogsértő fellépését a helyi közösség két hónapos folyamatos megfélemlítése és zaklatása előzte meg.

Ez egy felelőtlen és veszélyes globális érvényű támadás az emberi és a polgári jogok irányába,és egy legalább 3 hónapja tartó Románia és nemzetközi színtű, a palagáz kitermelése és ciános felszíni ércbányászat elleni tiltakozás ellenében történik.

Mindenkit kérünk, adja tovább ezeket az információkat és segítsen eljuttatni a Romániai helyzet köztudatba jutását.

December, 2nd, 2013.

Corporations cannot make the legislation!

In Pungesti, east romania, people are resisting Chevron’s fracking efforts. After facing strong opposition from local community and from a strong trans-national movement of support, Chevron had to scale down activities in Pungesti. At least until Monday night, when the assault started around 6 AM!

The riot police and Chevron joined forces to dismantle the local resistance group camped across the road from the field where Chevron plans to explore for shale gas, using hydraulic fracturing. After 2 months of resistance, 40 people were beaten, arrested and taken to the nearest town for further investigations. The Spokesperson from the riot police did not come out with a statement until much later and denied any abuse, while the riot police officers prevented the people from filming and recording the intervention. Media representatives do not have access to the site, and the road to Pungesti is blocked by Chevron equipment and Police intervention cars.

One personal account: “we made it to Pungesti. We can’t stay in the camp anymore, it’s full of police and gendarmes. On our way here, close to Pungesti, we passed many vehicles full of cops. In Silistea, the road is blocked with fences and gendarmes that guard them fiercely. In order to pass the fences, we had to say that we head to a town further away from Pungesti. We did not know that we couldn’t get to the camp [where people are resisting]. We have to return to Silistea, where few people support the Resistance and have banners. We’re trying to find efficient solutions, it’s horrible what’s happening here. Chevron is setting up the installations, they have all their machines on the field. Please let’s mobilise and go there! People are beaten up and scared. Share!”

Children cannot go to school at this point. The life of the entire community has been severely disrupted. The road is also blocked for anyone else, the villagers cannot go to work and the press is kept kilometres away from Pungesti. All this was planned in detail by the local authorities, the Police and Chevron in order to help the company install its shale gas exploring equipment on the site despite prior official statement from Chevron country manager Tom Holst to halt any activity until the community agrees with the project. The same equipment will be used for the exploitation phase as well.

This abusive intervention follows two months of continuous harassment and intimidation of the local community. It is an irresponsible, dangerous attack on human and civil rights, as recognized worldwide. All this is happening in a context of large 3 months nationwide (and international) protests against fracking and cyanide use in Romania.

Please spread the news and help us raise awareness on this difficult situation in Romania.

Links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDMHzdu4Hr8

http://www.gazedesist.ro/?sLang=en

http://fracking.casajurnalistului.ro/english/

The Infoshop invites you to the screening of RUINS (2013, 57′), a documentary directed by Zoe Mavroudi, about the criminalization of HIV in Greece. The story of a group of HIV- positive women who were detained by the Greek Police, forcibly tested, charged with a felony, imprisoned and publicly exposed, when their mug shots and personal data were published in the media, in the run-up to the country’s 2012 national elections.
The screening will be followed by a discussion.

When: next Monday at 6pm, December 2nd, 2013
Where: KLIT, Budapest (for the exact address of the venue, please contact us at fork@riseup.net ).

RUINS website: http://ruins-documentary.com/en/

KLIT: http://klitbudapest.wordpress.com/