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Grève et manifestation le 4 avril contre la casse du service public (SNCF, Université, Hôpitaux, etc ...)
▻https://rebellyon.info/Greve-et-manifestation-le-4-avril-contre-18939

Contre la casse du service public, le mouvement continue le mercredi 4 avril. La lutte ne compte plus s’arrêter, alors allons tous soutenir les cheminots en lutte et partons tous ensemble en manifestation à 13h30, de Perrache vers la Gare de Saint Paul.

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/ #Droits_sociaux_-_santé_-_services_publics, Une, #Manchette

La grève générale arrive - Les mobilisations dans la métropole lilloise
►http://labrique.net/index.php/thematiques/lutte-des-classes/995-la-greve-generale-arrive-les-mobilisations-dans-la-metropole-lilloise

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Alors que le gouvernement Macron s’attaque à tous les secteurs, les uns après les autres, qu’il remet en cause les services publics, les transports ferroviaires, les services postaux, l’énergie, l’université, le lycée, la fonction publique territoriale et d’Etat, la lutte s’organise, des assemblées générales, des manifestations, des rassemblements, ont lieu. Pour participer aux actions, La Brique jouera son rôle et relaiera, à chaque info obtenue, les évènements organisés contre les réformes en cours, contre le démentélement du service public, contre la remise en cause du travail et des travailleurs.ses. Pour nous aider, n’hésitez pas (et cela est d’ailleurs fortement recommandé) à nous envoyer un mail avec vos infos, vos agendas, à cette adresse : labrique**riseup.net (remplacez les par @), ainsi (...)

Democracy without the state
Jonas Staal builds parliament in northern-Syria
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▻http://metropolism.com/features/democracy-without-the-state

Jonas Staal:

The reason for being here is a collaboration with the Democratic Self-Administration of Rojava and the artistic and political organization New World Summit, that I founded in 2012. Together we are building a new public parliament in the Rojava region and organizing two international summits. It is through the New World Summit that the collaboration with the Democratic Self-Administration came about and that the members of my organization have been welcomed here three times since 2014.

To give some context to this region: “Rojava” means “West” in Kurdish, and refers to the western part of Kurdistan – many people tend to refer to it as northern-Syria. The Syrian civil war in 2011 forced Assad to concentrate his army to the south of the country and left behind a power vacuum in the north. Kurdish revolutionaries took this momentum to reclaim their land and, in collaboration with peoples from the region such as Arabs and Assyrians, to declare their political autonomy in the form of “democratic confederalism.” This process is known today as the “Rojava Revolution.” In the democratic model that came as a result notions such as self-governance, gender equality and communalism take a central role. The revolutionary Abdullah Öcalan, who has been imprisoned by Turkey since 1999, describes this model as “democracy without the state.” Essentially: stateless democracy.

The New World Summit consists of different people, such as researcher and producer Younes Bouadi, programmer Renée In der Maur, architect Paul Kuipers, photographer Ernie Buts and designer Remco van Bladel. Together, we have been developing for several years parliaments for stateless political organizations, amongst others in Berlin (2012) and Brussels (2014). These parliaments consist of large scale architectural constructions in which we so far were able to facilitate representatives of more than thirty stateless political organizations from all over the world, such as the Basque Country, Azawad, Somaliland, Baluchistan, West-Papua and Tamil Eelam. We believe the sphere of art is that of the imaginary, a space where we can develop new models of political representation and performative practices of politics.

The Kurdish movement has been involved in this process since the very beginning: especially the women’s movement that inspired the philosophies of Öcalan and practices the ideals of stateless democracy to its outer consequences was very important in this process. Revolutionaries such as Sakine Cansiz, murder in Paris in 2013, rejected the idea of the nation-state as a patriarchal construct, inherently intertwined with the doctrine of global capitalism. With Öcalan, the women’s movement concluded that for a stateless people confronted with colonialism and occupation the nation-state can never be a solution, but forms the essential problem.
The New World Summit always aimed to be a parliament for a stateless democracy, not limited to a specific territory, ethnicity or notion of statehood. This idea is indebted to the vision of the Kurdish movement, and our contributors Rojda Yildirim, Dilar Dirik, Adem Uzun, Havin Güne?er en Dil?ah Osman in specific. It is their political vision made possible a new artistic vision that we as the New World Summit try to realize through our parliaments.

C’est l’#arbre_à_palabres ? #démocratie
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100-200 trees shouldn’t stop Turkey’s development: Energy minister
▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/100-200-trees-shouldnt-stop-turkeys-development-energy-minister.a

Energy Minister Taner Yıldız has defended the controversial razing of an olive grove for the construction of a coal plant in the mining town of Soma, arguing that “100-200 trees shouldn’t stop Turkey’s development.”

Death toll reaches 299 in Turkish mine disaster
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/death-toll-reaches-299-turkish-mine-disaster

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People mourn in a graveyard on May 16, 2014 in the western town of Soma. (Photo: AFP - Bulent Kilic) People mourn in a graveyard on May 16, 2014 in the western town of Soma. (Photo: AFP - Bulent Kilic)

The death toll in Turkey’s worst ever mining disaster rose to 299 on Saturday as a new fire hampered rescue attempts, the energy minister said. Taner Yildiz told reporters that three miners were still thought to be underground based on families’ testimonies while 485 miners have either escaped or been rescued since Tuesday’s mine blast and fire in the western town of Soma. A new fire broke out Saturday in another section of the mine, about 250 meters (820 feet) away from where the miners are trapped, creating further (...)

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#police fire #tear_gas at Turkish #mine mourners
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/police-fire-tear-gas-turkish-mine-mourners

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People mourn in a graveyard on May 16, 2014 in the western town of Soma after an explosion and a fire in a coal mine killed at least 284 workers three days ago. (Photo: AFP - Bulent Kilic) People mourn in a graveyard on May 16, 2014 in the western town of Soma after an explosion and a fire in a coal mine killed at least 284 workers three days ago. (Photo: AFP - Bulent Kilic)

Turkish riot police fired tear gas Friday at thousands of protesters at the scene of a #Disaster that killed nearly 300 miners, as the government faced a worsening political backlash. Police used tear gas, water cannon and plastic bullets to attack demonstrators chanting anti-government slogans in the western town of Soma, where at least 284 people (...)

#funeral #Top_News #turkey

Turkish mine operator denies negligence in disaster
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/turkish-mine-operator-denies-negligence-disaster

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A woman cries during a funeral ceremony for miners who died in an explosion, on May 15, 2014, in the western town of Soma in the Manisa province. (Photo: AFP - Bulent Kilic) A woman cries during a funeral ceremony for miners who died in an explosion, on May 15, 2014, in the western town of Soma in the Manisa province. (Photo: AFP - Bulent Kilic)

The operator of a Turkish mine where an explosion has claimed more than 280 lives said on Friday the disaster was not due to negligence on its part. “There is no negligence on our part,” Akin Celik, the general director of Soma Komur, told reporters at a press conference. “We have all worked very hard. I have not seen such an incident in 20 years.” Energy Minister Taner Yildiz (...)

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Attentat d’Arlit : le patron d’Areva se rend au Niger
▻http://www.romandie.com/news/n/_Attentat_d_Arlit_le_patron_d_Areva_se_rend_au_Niger67240520131734.asp

PARIS - Le président du directoire d’Areva, Luc Oursel, s’est rendu vendredi au Niger après l’attentat-suicide qui a visé sa mine d’uranium Somaïr à Arlit, dans le nord du pays, a annoncé le groupe nucléaire.

L’attaque à la voiture piégée, revendiquée par les islamistes du Mujao, a fait un mort et 14 blessés, tous nigériens, parmi les employés d’Areva. Deux kamikazes ont été tués et 49 membres des forces de sécurité blessés, selon le bilan nigérien.

J’ai souhaité exprimer à nos blessés ma solidarité et rendre hommage à notre collègue qui a perdu la vie à Somaïr. Je tiens à saluer le courage et le professionnalisme de tous nos collaborateurs qui (...) font vivre la coopération entre la France et le Niger, a déclaré M. Oursel, cité dans un communiqué.

Le patron d’Areva, deuxième producteur mondial d’uranium grâce notamment à ses mines nigériennes, a rencontré des collaborateurs du groupe et les représentants de l’Etat nigérien.

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Arlit, deuxième Paris est un film documentaire franco-béninois réalisé par Idrissou Mora Kpaï sorti en 2007
▻http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlit,_deuxi%C3%A8me_Paris

Synopsis
Née des mines d’uranium et de l’immigration, Arlit est une ville du Niger à la frontière du désert. Ancien Eldorado et plaque tournante de la région dans les années soixante-dix en raison de l’exploitation de l’uranium par la COGEMA (actuellement AREVA), Arlit incarnait l’aventure et la réussite. Mais la chute du prix de l’uranium et la rébellion touareg au début des années 1980 en ont fait une ville fantôme. Leur espoir d’une détente économique déçu, les habitants d’Arlit prennent par ailleurs conscience des dégâts humains, sanitaires et environnementaux provoqués par l’exploitation du minerai radioactif.

Arlit sert aujourd’hui de lieu de transit pour les clandestins en partance vers l’Europe. Venus des quatre coins du continent africain, ces émigrants font escale dans cet endroit désolé et poussiéreux avant de continuer leur périple vers le Maroc ou l’Algérie. Bien que la misère marque son quotidien, Arlit reste un melting-pot multiculturel fascinant.