SchNEWS - Friday 3rd July 2009 | Issue 682

“We believe for a space to be truly autonomous it must first be liberated. Liberated in our sense doesn’t just mean taking something out of the hands of capitalists (the mere re-appropriation of a building) but rather taking space and finding ways to use it as a weapon against the State and Capital.”

Join in a community celebration of anarchism as we prepare to confront the G20 Summit in
September ---- Saturday, August 1 at 1:00pm to 6:00pm Overlook Shelter, Schenley Park. The
Pittsburgh Organizing Group invites you to our fifth annual Anarchist Picnic on Saturday,
August 1, 1PM-6PM at the Schenley Park Overlook. There will be food, games, and more.
Bring a dish to share.

G20 Resistance Organizing Updates: Update #1 of the www.organizepittsburgh.org/G20 Call To
Action: September 23-25: Resist the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh Join Thousands at a Three Day
Convergence of Action, Resistance and Hope ---- Pittsburghers didn’t ask the G20 to come
here, but it is our intention that the worldview the summit represents will die here.

On the first day of July 2009, Croatian Prime Minister dr. sc. Ivo Sanader, who is also
the president of Hrvatska demokratska zajednica (eng. Croatian Democratic Community – the
largest Croatian conservative party, currently holding power in Croatia.), suddenly
resigned from his position as the Prime Minister of Croatia.

The Dararma family was distraught this past Sunday. Around noon on that hot day, two jeeps
- one belonging to the Israel Defense Forces, the other to the Civil Administration -
arrived at their home. A few officers emerged from the vehicles and informed the family
that they would have to leave their home within a few hours and could not return until the
following morning.

The following report about the recent 16 Congress of the Spanish CGT is from the French
anarchosyndicalist CNT (CNT Vignoles). The Spanish CGT is far and away the largest
anarchosyndicalist union federation in the world today. There is also a link to a recent
interview with Jacinto Caecero, the present confederal secretary of the CGT.

La Fédération Anarchiste assure de son soutien les femmes et les hommes
d'Iran, insurgés contre un pouvoir qui ne recule devant aucune forme de
répression pour maintenir son autorité. 
Les élections présidentielles, que ce soit aux Etats-Unis, en Iran ou en
France, habituent les peuples à mettre leur destin entre les mains d'un
seul homme, ainsi doté d'un pouvoir complètement ex

bonjour, je vous annonce la sortie aux éditions du Sextant de notre dernière
nouveauté (lire ci-dessous le résumé).
Amitiés.

from email, 1 July 2009: "On Monday (29 June 2009), the French legislature passed a radical new law making it illegal to be part of a "gang" - if it's one that has been or may be violent. Earlier this month, France banned the wearing of masks during public protests.

via clandestinenglish, 30 June 2009: "Social polarisation, which is seen by many as a result of the December Uprising, peaked again last week with yet another urban guerrilla attack by the Sect of Revolutionaries, a group that had attacked a police department and a TV station with automatic weapons last winter..." »  Read more | 3 reads «

via grauniad, 30 June 2009: "A senior police officer who investigated the death of Ian Tomlinson told his family that the officer who struck him at the G20 demonstrations could have been a member of the public "dressed in police uniform", it emerged last night.

An Injury to One is An Injury to All --- The recent racist attacks in Northern Ireland
against migrant workers are an indictment of the status-quo which thrives on blaming
minorities for the problems inherent in capitalism. It is the political class and sections
of the tabloid press who constantly provide the ammunition for racist attacks.

No doubt in the days since we last gathered together as APOC (Autonomous / Anarchist /
Anti-Authoritarian People of Color), much has changed for each of us. We’ve each
experienced new joys and grieves, up and downs. Across the vastness of this metropolitan
wasteland, new bonds have been built, old bonds strengthened.

They maintain that only a dictatorship -- theirs, of course -- can create the will of the
people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of
self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can
be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people
and free organization of the toil

Analysis of the events in Honduras and the dilemma of the oligarchy of Honduras in the
face of an unsustainable coup: whether they cling to the strategy of the Gorillas
(putschists in Latin American jargon) or they use the situation created by the coup in
order to wear off the reformist Zelaya, in order to re-conquest the absolute hegemony in
the political arena.