RURAL SQUATT MEETING IN Monars Spain

August 2010
The rural squat meeting took place this year on the beginning of july in Monars, a village squatted for 28 years in the high Garrotxa, catalan Pyrenees, spanish side.
Every year it gathers about one hundred persons, mainly coming from rural squats, around topics that are specific to squatting and rural life : collective organisation, material autonomy, « education », health, land struggles, etc. It goes with workshops, discussions and debates, that rythm the day, the subject of this meeting being mainly to see friends, to go further in relationships and to have fun together.
You could see on the advertising board :
- Friday : alternative / continuous workshop on electricity ; workshop discution debate « Questioning monogamia, and its alternatives »
- Saturday : discussion debate « Rural squatting, a movement(s), aims, do we project outside? ; chainsaw worshop, wood tables ; clowns workshop, the art of being yourself ; distillation workshop, Inipi (sweating tents from latin america's indians)
- Sunday : Squatting without car?, presentation and debate on the booklet « the jungle book, emergency book » (el libro de la selva, libreto de emergencias) ; presentation of the integral cooperative (a producer consumer cooperative aiming at getting out of the capitalism dependency, more or less)
There was also a collective work all along the meeting, to dig a pool to have water for an orchard.
All this complemented with a place for children and mothers, an infokiosk with many things, a free expression board, a total auto-organization of the everyday life (with a little help from the inhabitants from times to times, sure). And obviously no prices, just a collective pot for those who wanted and could afford to participate financially, everybody having brought what zhe could of food, material, etc. All this was very great and interesting, so come to the next meetings, it worth it.
Next year it will be in the « Valle d'Arce », in the Pyrenees at the north of Pamplona, where many villages are squatted (Lakabe, Aritzkuren, Rala, Aitzkurgi, Uli Alto and more).
I'd like to add some personal comments, but to say the truth I can't find the words to express the liberty, fullness, simple happiness feeling I experimented during this meeting. Maybe it's because the more I get close to the way of life I want tdo live, the more this feeling goes with me in my everyday life...
So if I've got to squat to have land, if I have to screw the state and it's guardian dogs, if I've to steal to get concrete tools for autonomy, if I have to be a parasite in a society plagued with power abuses and passive submitions, if I have to put myself apart of the World to create my own, I'll gladly do it, even if I make much more fun putting a tomato in earth or taking a beer with my friends.
After all, I believe that ther will be no issue to the struggle as long as we don't live the life we want to fight for.
And so, the collective living, full and intense, based on sharing, solidarity, giving and empathy, with searching material and political autonomy as a basis, seems to me to be the best strategy to buil strong basis for a net of persons that will effectively be able to influence the way the world goes.
The political and ideological influences in reclaim the fields are diverse and make us strong, because if not the anarcho-rural ghettoisation would eat us within a second. I just hope that the exemple of those who choose to live their radicality not dreaming it but putting it in acts will help us to know what we want.
Love and Freedom
Tortuga Feliz

CONDITIONS IN YOUTH PRISONS by John Bowden (uk)

In this article, social prisoner John Bowden exposes the violent control methods carried against young people in UK prison. The prison guards who act out their brutal fantasies on young people are not isolated ‘bad’ individuals but part of a de-humanising authoritarian system of exploitation and power. This situation is not simply a case for the United Kingdom, young people are imprisoned in disgusting conditions everywhere, and all these prisons must be torn to the ground with the guards scattered. Fire to the Prisons.
In 2004 15 year old Gareth Myatt died whilst bring “restrained” by three members of staff at a privatized children’s prison called Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre in Warwickshire. In the same year 14 year old Adam Rickwood hanged himself in another privatized children’s jail, Hassockfield Secure Training Centre in Co. Durham. A Judge later ruled that the guards who “restrained” Adam shortly before his death had used unlawful force on him. Six years later and following a sustained campaign by parents of imprisoned children and groups like the Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) a shocking government document detailing control methods used on children, some as young as 12, in custody has been revealed under the Freedom of Information Act.
Published by the Prison Service in 2005 and classified as a restricted government document, the manual provides staff in secure training centres with authorization to inflict physical pain on children with so-called “restraint and self-defence techniques”. The methods of physical force described in the manual are so legally questionable that the government was prepared to be taken to a tribunal to fight against disclosure of the document despite a ruling by the Information Commissioner that it should be publicly released. Previously government officials had even refused to provide a copy to the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee. Eventually the Ministry of Justice was forced to back down and release the document; it’s contents made the reticence of the Justice Ministry to shame with the public, such information all too self-explanatory.
Some of the “restraint” methods used against children in custody approved by the Justice Ministry, currently headed by the liberal-thinking Ken Clark, include ramming knuckles into the ribs of children and raking shoes down the shins. It also authorised staff to: “Drive straightened fingers into the young person’s face, and then quickly drive the straightened fingers of the same hand downwards into the young person’s groin area”. “Use an inverted knuckle into the trainee’s sternum and drive inward and upward”. “Continue to carry alternate elbow strikes to the young person’s ribs until a release is achieved”. “Nose distraction techniques” – sharp blows to the children’s nose –had already been found by the Court of Appeal to have been routinely and unlawfully used against children in at least one secure training centre. The contracting out of such brutal methods of control and punishment to institutions run by private firms for profit raises an obvious moral question and issue.
Instructions issued to staff in the secure training centres reveal a calculated understanding that such “control techniques” could lead to serious injury to the child and even death; “the techniques could risk a fracture of the skull and temporary or permanent blindness caused by rupture of the eyeball or detached retina”. There is also an acknowledgment that some techniques could cause asphyxia; staff are told that while applying headlocks to children that “if breathing is compromised it could lead to a medical emergency”.
Carolyne Willow, national co-ordinator of CRAE, said: “The manual is deeply disturbing and stands as state authorisation of institutionalised child abuse. What made former ministers believe that children as young as 12 could get so out of control so often that staff should be taught how to ram their knuckles into their rib cages? Would we allow teachers. etc., to be trained in how to deliberately hurt and humiliate children?
Images of Abu Graib prison in Iraq are evoked by instructions instruction to force difficult children to “adopt a kneeling position while a second member takes control of the head by grabbing the back of the neck while cupping the chin”. Whilst in this position steel handcuffs are applied to the child. Ms Willow describes such methods as ”The ritualistic humiliation of children and a clear abuse of human rights”.
Phillip Noyes, director of strategy and development at the National Society for the prevention of cruelty to children said: “These shocking revelations graphically illustrate the cruel and degrading violence inflicted at times on children in custody. On occasions these restraint techniques have resulted in children suffering broken arms, noses, wrists and fingers. Painful restraint is a clear breach of children’s human rights against some of the most vulnerable youngsters in society and has no place in a decent society”.
During the 12 months up to March 2009, restraint was used 1.776 times in the UK’s four secure training centres.
In the Houses of Lords on 21 July 2010 Lord McNally in response to questions about the methods of control described in the manual said “we use the word “children” very casually to describe often very large and quite violent young people in these centres”, and “we also have a duty of care to the staff who deal with these often very violent young people”. Often disturbed and unruly children, some as young as 12 years of age, are metamorphosed in Lord McNally’s mind into large and physically violent young adults as he tries to defend what Ms Swaine the legal director of CRAE, describes as “Guidance given in a staff authorised manual to violate human rights because is allows staff to deliberately hurt children outside cases of life-threatening necessity”.
What the manual actually reveals is an attitude and mindset that believes damaged and already brutalised children can be made to conform by the use of even more brutality and cruelty. In reality what such treatment creates is more severely disturbed young people seriously alienated from and actively hostile to society. What is being manufactured in these secure training centres are ticking time bombs that are then delivered into the wider community. A disproportionate number of seriously violent offenders and long-term prisoners are the product of a childhood spent in children’s homes and youth custody institutions where physical abuse and violence formed a routine part of their treatment. When the lesson being taught to children in custody is that power is represented by the power to hurt and control then that lesson will eventually be learned and practised in their own lives. What is sown behind the walls of child prisons will eventually be reaped by the wider community. The campaign to stop the abuse of children in custody shouldn’t be viewed as it is by tabloid newspapers and those responsible for that abuse as the prerogative of “wishy-washy liberals”; the wider society should realise that it has a vested interest in stopping the de-humanization of imprisoned children.
John Bowden
August 2010
HMP Perth

Anarchist Houseproject in Flensburg Germany; Raided By Police

On Wednesday July 28th, , 5 Police Officers of K5 (criminal investigation department – political Police) accomplished a house search at 'black mosquito – anarchist mailorder' in “Senffabrik” (house project) in order to find stickers which allegedly “call for incendiarism”. The degree of penalty for this is at least 1 year jail sentence.The sticker shows a stylized police car with a stylized flame and the headline: “burn a car!” - police found 18 copys.
Into the bargain, 2 hours later a court case took place against the same person which is indicted to distribute these stickers.
The trial was about a house-party 1,5 years ago, where 5 people have been arrested and bashed by the police – they where indicted for “resistance against authority” and “insult”.
The hearing was dropped for a payment of 360 € each.
The house search was not just a heavy affront against one of the accused – it was also a further provocation against the project “Senffabrik”, and in addition a starkly attack against the anarchist mailorder “black mosquito”.
We call on every insurrectionists to react adequately to these attacks!
We won't let us getting down from this big fuck-up!

URBAN SECURITY WORK SPACES: Policing The Crisis

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Berlin, August 28th-30th, 2010
[policing-crowds.org] The 21st century is witnessing what has been called the "pluralization of policing" (Jones & Newburn, 2006): Private security companies have conquered urban spaces and are developing some expertise in public policing. Current studies claim that the private security industry will grow further and take over more tasks formerly executed by state police; at the same time technologies complement and even incur human security work. State police has also undergone significant changes, including commercialization, new public management, and "police-private-partnerships" (Stober 1997).
Alongside these developments, the police apparatus has trans-nationalized and rigorous strategies, in particular against transnational protesters, have reemerged significantly since the early 1990s. Last not least, the "policing family" (Crawford & Lister, 2004) itself diversified, and we can witness (relatively) new phenomena such as nonprofit organizations deploying long-term unemployed as security forces; Community Wardens or Ambassadors overseen by the local municipalities; or unpaid volunteers policing sports events such as the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany. With these in-law family members the tasks of policing extended into the realm of the civil society, and the consequences still need to be discussed.
Looking at North America and Europe, we can observe specific varieties of policing that appear, in a first sighting, very heterogeneous, but that are, in our perspective, closely connected. They are shaping a formation we propose to define as the urban security work space, new in both quality and quantity. This idea is, firstly, guided by the fact that, at the present time, more than 50 percent of the population on planet earth lives in urban environments, a highly contested terrain. Even before 9/11, security underwent a (re)definition and inclusion of literally everything into the realm of homeland security (US) and homeland defence (EU) most visible in the German case within the current discourse of "erweiterter Sicherheitsbegriff" (extended security concept) introduced in 2000 (BAKS, 2001). Work, in turn, currently is understood as a gift and a duty at the same time and relates to security in ways that lead to "the poor policing the poor" (Eick, 2003). Finally, in neoliberal times space undergoes a transformation that shuffles, supersedes, and/or substitutes public space with semi-public and private space, directly affecting urban security work. Our hypothesis:
It is against this background that we want to discuss the recent situation in Europe and North America. We can identify three levels of redefinition and rearrangement of the ›urban security work space‹ that are guiding our conference:

1. Public space: The current crisis might lead to the extension of privately managed urban space, and/or mixed forms, described as the extension of ›mass private property‹, such as Shopping Malls and Business Improvement Districts. By the same token, aggressive policing of (transnational) protest seems to grow. Our aim here is to discuss how and at which point security nodes are strengthened, loosened, or rearranged – and what might be the consequences for the private policing of public space in particular.
2. Security: Competition is increasing and previously outsourced security might in part be again provided in-house by the former commercial customers while former state responsibilities might be supplied by rent-a-cops or in public/police private partnerships. The current crisis might create new opportunity structures for the security management strategies to fulfill their self-declared goal, the "peace keeping mission with regard to society" (Lehnert 2009).
3. Work: Security as work obviously is not only related to the individual but also directly linked to labor relations. We want to explore the potentials for workers' resistance and union organizing with regard to the deepening pressures of competition in one of the classic low-wage sectors. Is there a chance for change, backed by European Union projects like the Social Dialogue between employers' and employees' organizations within the private security industry or organizing models?
The conference intends to shed light on these heterogeneous situations in the field of urban security work spaces by bringing together international experts to combine theoretical as well as empirical insights.
More: http://www.policing-crowds.org/introduction.html

ENTODASPARTES Project is Close

So as you noticed, the project entodaspartes! ceased to function some days. And, therefore, with it all the blogs that were hosted, including that of revueltaverde.

We inform you that we decided to import the wordpress site, so that space will continue to be updated with news, activities and information, as usual.

With the only change that now we have decided to change the name of the site by taking what we're publishing the magazine: http://periodicoanarquia.wordpress.com

AGAIN REPRESSION Grenoble Banlieue France

France - New business in the suburbs of Grenoble sbirresche repressive and echoes
(AP) - PARIS, 4 Aug - Large police operation in
Villeneuve district of Grenoble, scene of recent clashes
Armed police and banlieue kids.


Arrested four boys, including 2 children (one and 'was then
released), as part of investigations carried out on robbery
goal 'in July in a mess' by Karim Boudouda, killed by
police during a chase. And the death of
robber has provoked the anger of young people causing 3
days of riotIn France, President Sarkozy is trying to climb the precipice of the vote - after the scandals of the UMP party funding - relying on a vague but bombastic reactionary and xenophobic campaign.

The proposals:

First remove the citizenship to foreigners machine serious crimes - especially attacks on police. Sarkozy used the term "attempted murder", as in France in recent riots began after shots of a firearm the second side of the fence. Given the basis of the first processes to be charged with "attempted murder" of a policeman during a riot in the suburbs do not need much more than any other faction witness. Addressing the issue may still be useful to remember that the only dead in the suburbs, from the 2005 to today, have only ever been young people of foreign origin were killed by the police.

"The French nationality withdrawn shall be to all people of foreign origin who have voluntarily attempt on the life of a policeman or anyone else representing the public authority."

A proposal is made public in very specific occasion: the presentation of the new prefect of Isère, Grenoble, where recently there have been clashes between police and young people in a suburb, after the agents had killed a young robber .

When needed, the paper banlieues is always ready to play.
The suburbs must be in turmoil for legitimate authority, must be the threat to the small and middle class, which state that the state protects and fights.

Recall that the banlieues are ghettos, hives, satellite cities were built on existing urban areas sometimes likened to the slums. And like in the ghettos, the mark of infamy is already produced from above. The banlieues are a social program, another of the capitalist civilization of the landfill where the surpluses are accumulated human, in the French case in particular waste of the colonial past. And like all ghettos are an intermediate stage in an urban area and a place of custody.

Followed by two short excerpts from a statement released a few months ago by French comrades in view of the process towards two of these young people of foreign origin which, in addition to imprisonment, citizenship could be revoked.

"The power projects on this site all its anxieties and fears securitarian, more than anything else, that employment of police districts is contrasted with riots organized people against which projectiles were fired for months flashball [steel and rubber], begin to put the cops in their sights. "

"This is not the feeling of living on the margins of society, but in the laboratory of the future. If in the near future, fears the risk of popular uprisings, certainly the power is training to be handled here "

"Anyone who does a lap after five o'clock of course, watching the" robocops "patrolling the Gaza-style, that the state is trying to restore order where disorder reigns, but to unleash chaos at the right time to show before the election, as the entity that restores order. "



Sarkozy also said that the acquisition of nationality for children born in France of foreign parents, once reached 18 years, should no longer be a right, if you commit crimes.

We speak of children born in France, whose only difference from other young French people is represented only by the origins of the parents.

This set of proposals are part of a wider program of propaganda that goes to target and criminalize a wider range of individuals on ethnic grounds.

And then the illegal immigrants, guilty of having "too many rights"
"I hope that we assess the rights and benefits available to them illegal aliens. An irregular situation may not confer more rights than a regular situation and legal, "a vague and woolly rhetoric style alloy north. The President has not even clear what rights he was referring. The illegal immigrants in France have, in fact very little access to services including health care.

The president also reiterated a hard line against the nomads: "We must stop the development of wild Roma camps. Are areas outside of law that can not be tolerated. " By September, the president added, "will be dismantled fields that have already been the subject of a court order. For fields where there was still a decision of the judges, we will ensure that action is taken soon. Within three months, I want at least half of these camps disappear from French territory. "

All positions drawn entirely from the program of far-right parties as the Front National in The Penn.

Moreover, the use of threat, whether internal (migrants, Roma, radical movements) or external (terrorism, rogue states, etc. ..) are classics of the repertoire of Western democracies in situations of economic difficulty or loss of consensus.

But in France in recent days there was another face of repression, always connected to the riots in the suburbs of Grenoble ...

Two Internet sites targeted by French Interior Minister

Although the French Interior Minister refused to specify names, "so as not to make their advertising," the two websites would be finished in his viewfinder jura freedom [http://juralibertaire.over-blog.com] and Indymedia Grenoble [http://grenoble.indymedia.org] guilty of being openly hostile to the police and his work.

"Public insults and defamation against the police," "campaigns that have shocked me and I can not let go", these words of the minister, indignant especially for some expressions used to describe the police "gang of murderers "for the police and" armed band of criminals "against the BAC [Crime Brigade], and in this way," attacking the honor of the police. "

The focus of the interior minister Brice Hortefeux, already known for the recent proposal of an electronic bracelet for migrants who appeal against the deportation order and sentenced in recent weeks for racist abuse against a young member of his party, it is This case focused on these websites over the efforts to legitimize and promote the recent work of repressive forces in the suburbs of Grenoble. The site Jura freedom and in addition has long accused of supporting the so-called anarcho-autonomous movement [of the nine Tarnac, sabotage against targets and other high speed]

Informa Azione.info - "looking like a prison burning"
s and death threats to police

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Following the closure of the server Entodaspartes suddenly several Latin American blogs have been unable to publish valuable information on anarchism and anticivilizzazione rather explosive in those countries. Of all the draft Total Liberation is to which we have always felt a great affinity.

We welcome, therefore, with pleasure the proposal of friends and companions to host the Total Liberation reported receiving, publishing in both Spanish and Italian.

A big hug in solidarity LXS compas!

Peak

culmine@distruzione.org





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