Monthly Archives: January 2011
Eucalypt & Majorca – Split 10″
Front Cover, unfortunately just a touch too big for my scanner
Insert
Tracklist:
Eucalypt:
1. Circles
2. Instrumental
Majorca:
3. Fallen Structures
4. This Was Never Supposed To Be A Stepping Stone
5. Extinguish Our Voices
6. We’re Losing More Than Just Time
7. New Tools For Old Escapes
Bloody Hammer – Pogo Rock Demo (2010)
Crust punks playing oi
Tracklist:
1. Underdogs
2. Smash Them All
3. Fire In My Eyes
4. Streetkids
Krömosom – Demo Tape (2010)
Farking radness
Tracklist:
1. Systematic Death
2. Wasted Life
3. Force Fed Lies
4. Sentenced to Life
5. Are You Free?
6. Et Sä
7. Terror
Latin American Activist Film Festival – Jan. 21-22
Featuring DOCUMENTARIES OF STRUGGLES AND COMMITMENTS
From Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, First nations and others
JANUARY – FRIDAY 21 & SATURDAY 22
RMIT UNIVERSITY, CITY CAMPUS
Student Union , Building 8, 350 Swanston Street, City
Friday, Jan 21, 6.30 pm
Films:
7pm MST Struggles – Brazil
7:45pm Chile – Barrick Gold
8:15pm Mexico – Zapatistas today
Saturday, Jan 22, 12 noon
12noon – 1pm Lunch get together
Films:
1pm The Coca Cola Case – Colombia
2.30pm The Plunder – Mapuche/Chile
4pm Venezuela From Below-Venezuela
Films till 5:30pm
Afterwards drinks & get together
@ LASNET Space
2 days $15/10 waged/Students
1 day: $10/5 unwaged/Students
All welcome, don’t miss it…
More Info.: lasnet@latinlasnet.org or call 0425 539 149 – 0438 496 433
2010-2011, Declaration of the People’s Solidarity Gathering
sauce: http://www.latinlasnet.org/node/379
Declaration of the People’s Solidarity Gathering and Commitments to Actions
The following are the declarations of the delegation of Latin American, Asia-Pacific & Australian representatives, comprising of representatives from SINALTRAINAL (Colombia’s National Union of Food Industry Workers), SINTRACARBON (Colombia’s Mining Union), MST (Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement), Cordillera People’s Alliance (Philippines), LASNET (Latin American Solidarity Network), Bougainville, Mt Nancy Town Camp, FETRAMIN (Chile’s Mine Workers’ Federation), Copper Workers Federation (CTC-Chile) & Wayuu (Indigenous communities from Colombia) and Afro-Colombian communities, who participated in the Latin American, Australian & Asia-Pacific Solidarity Gathering on 12-14 November and 26-27 November 2010 in Melbourne and Sydney respectively. This declaration has been taken back to the aforementioned organisations, and subsequently ratified by them. Finalising at the end of December 2010, and made public at the beginning of January 2011.
The gathering and solidarity activities consolidate LASNET’s solidarity commitment with grass roots social and political movements in struggles and resistance throughout Latin America, from the Bravo River to the Patagonia.
download complete declaration and commitments in PDF, here
Firstly, we declare:
The behaviour of Multinational Corporations, as the vanguard of global capital, creates nothing but misery and devastation in our communities, and to our environment. With shared practises, and with support from our various Nation States, these corporations are dispossessing and impoverishing our peoples with global policies of exploitation, casualisation, attacks on unions, displacement of aboriginal communities, intervention in indigenous affairs, attacks on food sovereignty with transgenic seeds and the use of toxics on food plantations.
To face this onslaught, we need to globalise our resistance and struggles. Through working across our social movements, Indigenous peoples and trade unions, we must unite and implement grassroots international models of resistance, struggle and solidarity.
Secondly, we declare:
To achieve this objective, we have decided to create the International Co-ordination Against Multinational Policies (International Multinational Monitor / Observatorio Internacional Contra las Políticas de las Multinacionales). This Co-ordination aims to raise awareness, to monitor and denounce the behaviour of multinational corporations, initially in the areas of Latin America and the Asia-Pacific. Also, the Co-ordination will seek out other bodies involved in working against multinationals, both in Australia and overseas. Until August 2011, this body will be co-ordinated from Australia, by LASNET.
The main tasks of the Co-ordination are:
• Compiling an international calendar of events and actions denouncing the behaviour of multinational corporations:
• March 8: International Day of Women in Struggle.
• March 29: Young Fighter Day.
• April 17: Struggle for Land Day.
• April 24: International Day of Indigenous People.
• May 1: International Workers’ Day.
• First week of May: International Solidarity Struggles in Philippines.
• June 1: International Day of Student Struggles.
• July 22: International Day Against Multinationals’ Policies.
• August10: Miners’ International Day
• October 16: International Day of Struggles Against Multinationals and Food Sovereignty.
• November 5: Celebrating the Poor Peoples and Indigenous Struggles.
• December 10: International Human Rights Day.
• Establish a permanent network of alternative media and the sharing of media resources.
• To call for and organise an international day of action against multinational corporations for July 22, 2011.
• A monthly publication – ‘The Spectre’, edited in Australia by LASNET, to announce actions and events of workers and Indigenous organisations active in their struggles against multinationals and States. This will be sent to the participating countries and be published on the website of each organisation.
• To organise a grass root social movement gathering/conference in Valledupar, Colombia August 19-21, 2011 called First Latin American & International Gathering “For People’s Sovereignty, Against Multinational Corporations”. -Defending workers and indigenous rights-
• To seek co-ordination from the organisations that supported the Gathering, and have already expressed interest in the co-ordination. These include organisations from Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Peru, New Zealand, the US & various European nations.
Thirdly, we declare our support for the resolutions reached during the Melbourne Gathering, the main points of which include:
• The campaign, initiated by SINALTRAINAL internationally and by LASNET in Australia, against Coca-Cola Company.
• To strengthen the Campaign- ‘No to the Multinationals’ War: For Sovereignty, Democracy, Peace and Wellbeing’ initiated by SINALTRAINAL and an important number of organisations around the world.
• Organising a delegation of Australia Indigenous representatives, trade unionists and activists to Colombia, from 12 to 31 August 2011, to coincide with the First Latin American & International Gathering.
• Work towards an exchange of MST members to come to Australia to study English.
• The campaign against the reopening of Rio Tinto’s Paguna mine in Bougainville.
• The proposal to send a delegation from the Prescribed Areas Peoples’ Alliance to the UNPFII in New York next year to denounce the NT intervention.
Fourth, we declare that LASNET and Australian Trades Union attending the gathering commit to following up the meeting between BHP-Billiton representatives and Wilman Palmezano (Wayuu), Jaime Deluquez (SINTRACARBON) & CFMEU, FETRAMIN & LASNET representatives on Monday, 29 November 2010; and to continue to demand the end the displacement and polluting of Wayuu communities, financial reparations for lands usurped, and the end to the inhuman working conditions endured by Cerrejón miners.
The organisations attending this meeting make the main objective to continue our resistance and struggles in order to achieve truth, justice and reparations for the crimes committed in Colombia which facilitated the plunder of natural resources; and that this situation never happen again in Colombia and in our world.
Fifth, we declare:
That the policies implemented by multinational corporations in Latin America are different to those applied in developed countries. Within developing countries, we see the disregard for labour rights, the use of unusual local legislation to take national resources without limits, and a complete disregard for environmental issues running rampant. We believe that this situation must be the concern of the workers where multinationals have their headquarters. To stop the plunder and abuse of workers’ rights by these companies in Latin America, because its probably the same policies will be applied in developed countries, retracting fundamental benefits and rights, and applying the same policies of sub-contraction and casualisation.
We deeply believe it is essential that workers in developed countries, like Australia, work together to face and stop the multinational policies; and to eliminate the workers’ rights abuses and anti-union practices implemented in Latin America, in the Asia-Pacific region, and in poor countries by these multinationals; and also to prevent those policies being implemented in their countries. Any victory will be a victory for the workers and poor people in Latin America; the solidarity between our struggles is essential and fundamental.
This declaration would like to extend a fraternal invitation to all groups and individuals interested in getting involved in this co-ordination and LASNET work.
Also this declaration thanks all unions, grass roots organisations and individuals who made possible the gathering in Melbourne and the solidarity activities in Sydney; to achieve this challenging adventure, to assist our confrontation with these multinational monsters destroying our community and environment.
Only the struggle and organisation will make us free!
A lot of strength and move forward with our Global struggles!
Australia, December, 2010, published January 2011
Written by Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET),
Actively Supported by SINALTRAINAL, MST, FETRAMIN, CTC-Chile SINTRACARBON, Cordillera People’s Alliance (Philippines), Clive Porabou (Bounganville), Barbara Shaw (Mt Nancy Town, NT Australia), Wilman Palmezano (Wayuu and Afro-Colombian communities), Pueblo Libre (Chile), Melbourne Black (Australia), CFMEU (Australia), AMWU (Australia), LHMU (Australia), MADGE (Australia), Greek Democritus Workers League (Australia), El Quinto (Chile), Convergencia Estudiantil (Chile), Articulación Latinoamericana de Movimientos Sociales hacia el Alba de Chile, Inquietando Desde el Margen (Chile), Mapuche Communities in Conflict (Wallmapu/Chile), Movimiento Popular Regional, Fundación Sabana and others.
Any queries, just write to lasnet@latinlasnet.org
or call Lucho Riquelme 0425 539 149 or Michael Burns 0438 496 433
http://www.latinlasnet.org
solidaritygathering2010.wordpress.com
http://www.latinamericansolidaritynetwork.org
MST News: 300 families occupy more than one farm in Brazil
Sauce: http://www.mst.org.br/300-familias-ocupam-mais-uma-fazenda-em-SP
January 7, 2011
By Vanessa Ramos
Page MST
Landless families continue the journey of land occupation, which started this week. The number of families camped out across the state of São Paulo has already reached two thousand. The goal is to accelerate the process of agrarian reform in the region.
At dawn today (7 / 1), around 300 families occupied a plantation in Castilho (SP). The action aims to draw attention to the need for immediate settlement for all the people camped in Brazil, reaching approximately 100 000 households.
Other claims were also made, as to expropriate large estates who do not fulfill their social function; upgrade productivity rates, establish a maximum size for rural properties, eminent domain, for purposes of agrarian reform, the farms whose owners are in debt to the Union, and expropriating farms where crime has been established or environmental situation of slave labor.
Other occupations
During the early hours of yesterday (6 / 1), about 200 landless occupied the Fazenda Bertazzoni, Bertazzoni belonging to the Group in the city of Cafelândia (SP). The settlement sought to pressure the INCRA to expedite the process of expropriation of farms Recreation Field I and III, plus the Heaven’s Gate in the cities of Gaul and Jose Bonifacio (SP). Moreover, they also demanded the completion of the purchase of Finance Rapids in the town of Barbosa (SP) to be intended for Agrarian Reform.
On the morning of last Tuesday (4 / 1), about 300 people gathered in front of the Land Institute of São Paulo (Itesp) in Presidente Prudente. The lawsuit sought to draw attention from the government that action be taken against 93 000 hectares of land in the Pontal, considered vacant. The intent was to emphasize the state guidelines of Landless claims and press the government for the collection of areas in order to settle the families from Camp Alexandra Kollontai, who is from May 22, 2008.
This morning, accompanied by armed police and riot of the PM, along with 50 vehicles, surrounded the family. Segundo relatos dos acampados, a ação policial foi realizada com violência e ameaças. According to reports of campers, the police action was carried out with violence and threats.
COMMUNIQUE:
OPEN LETTER TO THE POPULATION
Sauce: http://www.mst.org.br/Carta-aberta-a-populacao
7 January, 2011
In early 7 January 2011, we, landless families camped in several regional camps Andradina, with 300 families occupy a plantation in Junqueira – Castilho.
This farm is approximately 500 acres owned by Elias Vicente Ribas which also owns the farm Itapura in Castilho. This farm Itapura was enacted to expropriation for agrarian reform on October 5, 2002, publication date, for being an unproductive farm that was not fulfilling its social function. But until now this process has dragged on in court, as well as several cases from other areas to expropriation.
Earlier this new political season of our country, our occupation is a public position to charge the implementation of land reform. Constantly the question has been subject of much debate, and popular organizations and leftist parties have charged its effectiveness through camps, occupations, marches and rallies, but nothing of Agrarian Reform. She has simply been blocked and buried. The old agrarian structures have been maintained, and thus continue the inequalities, injustices and violence. Repeat the concentration of land and power as a consequence of the choice by the agribusiness model. Thus, the policy of land reform is just “small politics” without priority. So what we see is the concentration of land, monoculture, poisoning the land and water, environmental destruction, expulsion from the field, and above all, the Agrarian Reform, mere words, small talk, disappearances commitments, contempt and persecution social movements.
In this region, there are 25 settlements, totaling 1,000 families camped, so poor, unemployed or evicted from the countryside who dream of the land to produce their daily bread, and contribute to the development of the municipality of the region and country.
We went through many difficulties and still suffer harassment and evictions. But we are camped just to expose those areas that do not fulfill their social function and to charge the agrarian reform as mandated by the Constitution.
But as we are not heard we are the ugly face again. We decided to enter a new year with a lot of fighting, along with other landless in the state of Sao Paulo.
Either we make Agrarian Reform, or the animal will pick up!
CLAIMED
• Settlement of the immediate families camped in the region in 1000, and 2000 families in the state of São Paulo and 100 000 families in Brazil;
• expropriation of large estates who do not fulfill their social function;
• Update rates of productivity lagged desde1975;
• Establish a maximum size of the farm, established in accordance with each region (eg, fixed in 35 fiscal modules);
• expropriation for agrarian reform farms whose owners are in debt with the Union;
• Expropriation of farms where they have been recorded crime or environmental situation of slave labor;
• More surveys with more agility in the region and state.
Old cases of 2001/2002
Farm Itapura / Castilho, benefit payments for issue held;
Retreat Farm / Mirandópolis: Commitment by the judge to ensure the issuance and settlement of families;
Farm Lagoão / Itapura: Management with the court seeking the issuance;
Farm Raft / Sud Minucci: Management with the judge and court to speed up the trial
Fazenda Santa Maria / Sud Minucci: Management with the judge and the trial court for speeding
Fazenda Santo Ivo / Pereira Barreto: Management by the judge to sentence and the issue of possession
Hacienda San Jose / Mirandópolis: Management by the Minister and the Supreme Judge for Trial and issue;
Expropriation procedures started in 2008
Urgent Land Reform Decree of the following areas: Hacienda San Jose and San Antonio (Tourmaline)
Payments
What the government fails to make promises of payments areas, and actually issue the bonds of the following areas;
Fazenda Nossa Senhora Aparecida I and II (Aparecida d’Oeste)
Farm Ranchão (Pontalinda)
Hacienda San Jose and ST. Antonio (Tourmaline)
Settlers
• Development, housing, electricity, roads and wells (in the new settlements)
• Improving roads and contour lines, water and reforms of the seats;
• Credit housing for all families in the amount of $ 15,000 in a single payment and release
• Increase the value of supporting women to $ 4,800 and that is in a single payment for all settled;
• Payments of deposits / stores / trade in 30 days maximum. And to masons, carpenters and janitors in 15 days maximum;
• Improved technical assistance, with more technical training for various levels of movements of the settlements. More about families and social movements.
MOVEMENT Landless Workers – MST – SP
The Regional Andradina – SP
Fair Trial and Freedom
Sauce: http://www.mapuexpress.net/?act=news&id=6399
Open letter from the families of Mapuche political prisoners, imprisoned by the Chilean state, currently held in prison in Lebu, province of Arauco.
Brothers and sisters of Indigenous peoples
Ladies and Gentlemen
Supportive social and popular organizations
NGOs
International Organizations advocacy of human rights
Parliamentarians
Alternative media
We are family of Mapuche political prisoners, imprisoned by the Chilean state, currently held in prison in Lebu, Province of Arauco.
Our family members, responding to various territorial recovery processes of the Mapuche communities in the conflict zone of Lake Lleu-Lleu, by virtue of which they have been involved in the struggle of our people. In this context, our homes and communities have been constantly raided by the Chilean police, abusing and causing terror in our families, and making detainees of our sons, husbands, fathers and brothers.
Terrorism Bill
By the mere fact of the defendants being Mapuche, prosecutors have invoked the Patriot Act in the hearings of formalization. However, it was not only the Public Ministry, through its prosecutors, seeking their application, but also the Chilean Government, in this case, through the Provincial Government of Arauco.
In constrast, when a Mapuche is killed the Chilean government never initiates a lawsuit against those responsible.
In January of this year, at the Court Cañete Assurance, the Public Ministry undertook the reformalisation of cases for a total of nine terrorist crimes (threats, fires, ambushes, terrorist conspiracy, etc. ) involving 18 Mapuche. Meanwhile four detainees were released by decision of the prosecution who decided to \ “not to persevere in the prosecution \”.
We denounce that the implementation of the Terrorism Act in the prosecution of Mapuche political prisoners of the Lleu-Lleu emergency conflict has involved arbitrariness, lack of guarantees and due process violations, such as:
Investigative Secrecy, during virtually the entire process, which prevented the right to defense.
1 year and 8 months of preventive detention, so far, for most of the defendants, not respecting the presumption of innocence, supposedly guaranteed by the current Chilean judicial system and in violation of ILO Convention 169 (Art. 10).
35 ‘faceless’ secret witnesses, ie, witnesses who we do not know if they are real or invented, or if they have any animosity towards the defendants, many of whom are manipulated by the police and prosecutors.
Sentences of more than 50 years, The application of the Terrorism Act means, in short, a longer sentence than under ordinary criminal law (Annex list of commoners who risk higher penalties).
YEARS REQUIRED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR:
Hector Llaitul Carillanca: 103
Marco Millanao Mariñan: 77
Ramón Llanquileo Pilquiman: 65
José Huenuche Reiman: 52
Luis Menares Chanilao: 52
Jonathan Huillical Méndez: 52
Carlos Muñoz Huenuman: 50
Juan Parra Leiva: 50
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, Moreover, the processing through the Patriot Act has brought with it a number of human rights violations such as torture, undue pressure, kidnapping, and harassment of the family of the accused.
MILITARY JUSTICE AND DOUBLE JEOPARDY TRIALS
This is the case of several Mapuche political prisoners, although Chile has already been convicted for this reason by the American Court of Human Rights (Palamara-2005). Yet Chile has continued to try civilians under the military justice system, which has only be revealed with the hunger strike of Mapuche political prisoners.
But the biggest legal aberration has been that of double jeopardy which is felt by five political prisoners of the Mapuche territorial recovery process (Llaitul, Llanquileo, Huenuche, Menares and Huillical), who, for the same act, are being processed both by the Civil and Military Justice. And whilst the Military Court of Valdivia ruled to acquit because of insufficient evidence, the military prosecutor has appealed to the Court Martial.
Contrary to that the murderers of Mapuche, who are judged by their peers, and who are always being released and / or serving sentences that are a true mockery to the families of the victims. Meanwhile the ill-treatment and torture of Mapuche defendants, or forced into being “secret witnesses”, continues with complete impunity because the public prosecutor declares itself incompetent, leaving such crimes in the hands of the Chilean Military Justice.
Finally, we point out that Chile is the country which has the largest number of political prisoners- members of an aboriginal people- which gives account of the level of discrimination and racism that still prevails in this country, who has ignored the commitments and recommendations for all these years.
All this clearly realizes that our families in prison are facing a political trial that responds to the defense of economic interests (estates, hydropower, mining, forestry, etc.), making our task very difficult because we are in total inequality.
As is public knowledge, earlier this year ended a long hunger strike undertaken by more than 34 Mapuche political prisoners in different prisons south of the country applying for, mainly, non-implementation of the Terrorism Act of Military Justice and “Secret Witness” as evidence, the legislative and legal achievements of which include at this time:
– The government sent a bill to amend the Code of Military Justice, in order that this not be applied to civilians, which was approved by the Chilean parliament.
– To reclassify the suits brought by the Government for Terrorism Law to common crimes, citing “reasons of State and the common good,” hoping that all other bodies of the Chilean State to act in the same line.
However, we are not yet clear that given all the guarantees for due process and fair trial and that the hunger strike carried on with dignity by the Mapuche political prisoners, made only a first step. We reiterate that only the struggle of our communities, support of those who sympathize with our just cause and the presence of observers in each of Oral Trials, to develop the first half of 2011, will get closer to that goal.
Given this situation, we ask:
1) presence of observers and Alternative Media in the CLOSING ARGUMENTS to grow from 17 January 2011, the Trial Court Oral Cañete city (province of Arauco, Bio Bio Region.). A fundamental instance in which the court will define the future of our family.
2) adhesion and / or views on the situation of violation of rights which is the Mapuche people in front of his prosecution and enforcement of laws of exception.
3) REPRESENTATIONS AND LETTERS TO THE EMBASSY OF CHILE in the world for the government to take cognizance of the international question of the treatment given to indigenous peoples.
Finally, we thank the International Observer from Europe and the Mission of the American Association of Jurists present during the month of November in the presentation of prosecution evidence, especially the \ “secret witnesses \ “.
Expecting a speedy reception, greet them as brothers.
Relatives of the Mapuche Political Prisoners.
Contacts:
Natividad Llanquileo Pilquiman
Email nllanquileo@gmail.com
Phone: 569 – 62 32 59 21
Lov Choque
Gladi Huenuman Liencura
Phone: 569-84633589
Lov Choque
Olga Viluñir Aguayo
Phone: 569 – 85 35 67 12
Community Pascual Coña
More information:
Vanesa Queipul Has Been Arrested and is Being Tortured by Police at this Time.
From Territorial Mapuche Alliance
Ercilla, Mapuche territory, January 4th, 2011.
At noon on Tuesday the young Mapuche, Vanesa Queipul Paillaleo, was arrested by police. While on the nearby Poluco public road , adjacent to, and claimed by, the forest/farming community Ignacio Queipul, a group of Mapuche youth were persecuted by police with a hail of bullets, among whom was the woman, who was then detained. At this time the young Queipulian woman finds herself prisoner at police headquarters in the town of Collipulli, and is being subjected to psychological torture and different constraints, she is the mother of a 2 year old child waiting at home. It should be noted that so far there has not been any confrontation between the villagers with police and that, according to reports from these same villagers, there is absolutely no justification for the shootings and subsequent detention.
According to reports from the spokesperson of Lof Temucuicui, Michael Carbone, “the events occured while young people were going to perform productive tasks needed in their area and that the police captain in charge of the area, who is characterized by arrogance and who is always provoking the Mapuche in order to generate situations to justify serious repression, is directly responsible.” Along with condemning the facts, the spokesperson noted that this information is to be kept in mind for future situations regarding police violence. The community members are traveling at this time to the Collipulli police station to try to use dialogue to try and secure the release of the imprisoned young Mapuche that is being tortured.
More sauce here
*Update*
According to Mapuexpress here, there is to be an intensification of police Special Forces in the area. The report that Mapuexpress sites also indicates that Vanesa has been released from custody.
The Stockholm Syndrome – In The End Its Over (2002)
Adelaide eh? Go join some weird evangelical church, sell ice or play an awesome unique brand of dark hardcore?
The latter obviously…
Tracklist:
1. The Pattern Maker
2. Pen And Paper As A Safety Harness
3. Red Dragons
4. Portrait 187
5. Books Full Of Broken Teeth
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