Från MST,

Please, see below a petition by Turkish and International intelectuals denouncing the Turkish Government brutalities against the kurdish people. 

MOre than 1.000 Turkish intelectuals and professors have already signed it, and almost 400 internationals, including David Harvey and Noam Chomsky.

President Erdoğan made a defiant speech, mostly attacking on this petition and those who signed it. He said: "Pick a side. You are either on the side of the Turkish government, or you're on the side of the terrorists'. 

Just 2 hours after this speech, Turkish Higher Education Council announced that it will launch an investigation against those who signed in Turkey. 

In this situation supporting the academicians in Turkey is much more crucial.

I would like to ask you to sign this petition in order to show solidarity and circulate it as widely as possible.

You can sign the petition by sending a mail to info@barisicinakademisyenler.net

We will not be a party to this crime! (in French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Greek athttp://barisicinakademisyenler.net/node/63)

Academicians for Peace

10.01.2016

(for list of signatures see bottom)

As academics and researchers of this country, we will not be a party to this crime!

The Turkish state has effectively condemned its citizens in Sur, Silvan, Nusaybin, Cizre, Silopi, and many other towns and neighborhoods in the Kurdish provinces to hunger through its use of curfews that have been ongoing for weeks. It has attacked these settlements with heavy weapons and equipment that would only be mobilized in wartime. As a result, the right to life, liberty, and security, and in particular the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment protected by the constitution and international conventions have been violated. 

This deliberate and planned massacre is in serious violation of Turkey's own laws and international treaties to which Turkey is a party. These actions are in serious violation of international law. 

We demand the state to abandon its deliberate massacre and deportation of Kurdish and other peoples in the region. We also demand the state to lift the curfew, punish those who are responsible for human rights violations, and compensate those citizens who have experienced material and psychological damage. For this purpose we demand that independent national and international observers to be given access to the region and that they be allowed to monitor and report on the incidents.

We demand the government to prepare the conditions for negotiations and create a road map that would lead to a lasting peace which includes the demands of the Kurdish political movement. We demand inclusion of independent observers from broad sections of society in these negotiations. We also declare our willingness to volunteer as observers. We oppose suppression of any kind of the opposition.

We, as academics and researchers working on and/or in Turkey, declare that we will not be a party to this massacre by remaining silent and demand an immediate end to the violence perpetrated by the state. We will continue advocacy with political parties, the parliament, and international public opinion until our demands are met.

For international support, please send your signature, name of your university and your title to info@barisicinakademisyenler.net .

International supporters:

 Aijaz Ahmad, Prof.Dr., California Üniversitesi, ABD
Agnès Deboulet, Prof.Dr, Paris 8 Üniversitesi, Fransa
Albena Azmanova, Yrd. Doç. Dr., Kent Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Alain FRANÇOIS, Prof. Dr, Ecole de Recherche Graphique
Bruxelles, Belçika
Alessandra De Rossi, Yrd. Doç. Dr., Turin Üniversitesi, İtalya
Alessandra Mezzadri, Dr., Londra Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Alexis Cukier, Dr., Centre Marc Bloch, Almanya
Alexis Benos, Prof. Dr., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Yunanistan
Alfredo Saad Filho, Prof. Dr., Londra Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Alice von Bieberstein, Dr., Cambridge Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Alicia Giròn, Prof. Dr., Universidad Nacional Autónama de Mexico, Meksika
Alisa Lebow, Öğr. Gör., Sussex Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Alison Ayers, Dr., Simon Fraser Üniversitesi, Kanada
Amir Paz-Fuchs, Sussex Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Amy Bartholomew, Dr., Carleton Üniversitesi, Kanada
André Tosel, Prof. Dr., Nice Üniversitesi (Emekli), Fransa
Andrea Fischer-Tahir, Dr., Marburg Philipps Üniversitesi, Almanya
Andrea Petö, Prof. Dr., Orta Avrupa Üniversitesi, Macaristan
Andreas A. Huyssen, Prof. Dr., Columbia Üniversitesi, ABD
Andreas Bieler, Prof. Dr., Nottingham Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Andrew Crosby, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belçika
Angela Joya, Yard. Doç. Dr., Oregon Üniversitesi, ABD
Ann Phoenix, Prof. Dr., Londra Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Anna J. Secor, Prof. Dr., Kentucky Üniversitesi, ABD
Anne Joubert, Prof. Dr., Fransa
Anne-Sophie Cayet, Ögretim üyesi, Aix-Marseille Üniversitesi, Fransa
Anouk Colombani, Dr., Paris 8 Üniversitesi, Fransa
Antje Steinberg, Gewerkschaft für Erziehung und Wissenschaft, Almanya
Antoine Math, Araştırmacı, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES), Fransa
Antonella Pietta, Yrd. Doç. Dr., Brescia Üniversitesi, İtalya
Antonello Tolve, Prof. Dr., Macerata Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi, İtalya
Antonio Brencich, Doç. Dr., Cenova Üniversitesi, İtalya
Antonio Di Stasi, Prof. Dr., Marche Politeknik Üniversitesi, İtalya
Antony Todorov, Dr., Yeni Bulgar Üniversitesi, Bulgaristan
Arlene Avakian, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst, ABD
Arwan Taha, Doktora Öğr., Sheffield Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Athanasios Marvakis, Prof. Dr., Selanik Aristotle Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Atia Benatia, Prof. Dr., ENS Laghouat Algérie, Cezayir
Aude Signoles, Okutman., Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Fransa
Axel van Lamsweerde, Prof. Dr., Louvain Katolik Üniversitesi, Belçika
Ava Homa, Prof. Dr., George Brown College, Kanada
Aviel Verbruggen, Emeritus Prof. Dr., Antwerp Üniversitesi, Belçika
Azam Khatam, Araştırmacı, York Üniversitesi, Kanada
Barbara Alfano, Dr., Bennington Koleji, ABD
Barbara Hopkins, Doç. Dr., Wright Eyalet Üniversitesi, ABD
Bartsidis Michalis., Dr., Selanik Aristotle Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Barzoo Eliassi, Dr., Linnaeus Üniversitesi, İsveç
Bele Grau, Doktora Öğr., Goethe Üniversitesi, Almanya
Benjamin Arditi, Professor, National University of Mexico, UNAM
Benjamin Dawson, Dr., Londra Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Benoît Fliche, CR CNRS, Fransa
Bertrand Ogilvie, Prof. Dr., Paris 8 Üniversitesi, Fransa
Bessel van der Kolk, Prof. Dr., Boston Üniversitesi, ABD
Braulio Rojas Castro, Dr., Universidad de Playa Ancha, Şili
Bruce Robbins, Prof. Dr., Columbia Üniversitesi, ABD
Bruno Moncharmont, Prof. Dr., Molise Üniversitesi, İtalya
Bruno Péquignot, Prof. Dr., Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 Üniversitesi, Fransa
Bryan Evans, Doç. Dr., Ryerson Üniversitesi, Kanada
Carl Death, Dr., Manchester Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Carlo Maria Cananzi, Dr., Studio ERRESSE soc. coop. Arl, İtalya
Carol Mann, Dr., Paris 8 Üniversitesi, Fransa
Caroline McKusick, Doktora Öğr., California Davis Üniversitesi, ABD
Catherine Lutz, Prof. Dr, Brown Üniversitesi, ABD
Cécile Rabot, Ögretim üyesi-Araştırmacı, Paris Ouest Nanterre Üniversitesi, Fransa
Cecilia Sgolacchia, Doktora Öğr., Roma Sapienza Üniversitesi, İtalya
Christian Vandermotten, Prof. Dr., Universitié Libre de Bruxelles (Emekli)
Christoph K. Neumann, Prof. Dr., Münih Ludwig Maximilian Üniversitesi, Almanya
Christos Athanasiadis, Prof. Dr, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Yunanistan
Christy Petropoulou, Yrd. Doç. Dr., Ege Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Chrys Avlami, Tarihçi, Panteion Siyasal ve sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Claire Madeleine-Perdrillat, Dr., Mans Üniversitesi
Claire Rhiannon Parfitt, Doktora Öğr. Sydney Üniversitesi, Avustralya
Claude Calame, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Fransa
Claudia Moatti, Prof. Dr., Prof. Dr., Paris-8 Üniversitesi, Fransa
Choman Hardi, Yrd. Doç. Dr., Irak Amerikan Üniversitesi, Irak
Conny Groot, Öğr. Gör., Amsterdam Üniversitesi, Hollanda
Costas Gaganakis, Doç. Dr., Atina Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Costis Melolidakis, Doç. Dr, Atina Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Cynthia Enloe, Prof. Dr., Clark University, ABD
Daniel Bendix, Dr., Kassel Üniversitesi, Almanya
Daniel García Pérez, Doktora Öğr., Madrid Avrupa Üniversitesi, İspanya
Dalia Wahdan, Doç. Dr., Kahire Amerikan Üniversitesi, Mısır
Dario Grasso, Kıdemli Araştırmacı, Pisa Üniversitesi, İtalya
David Gaunt, Prof. Dr., Södertörn University, İsveç
David Graeber, Prof. Dr., Londra Üniversitesi, İngiltere
David Harvey, Prof. Dr., New York Kent Üniversitesi, ABD
David McNally, Prof. Dr., York Üniversitesi, Kanada
DeeDee Halleck, Emerita Prof. Dr., California Üniversitesi, ABD
Diane M. Nelson, Dr., Duke Üniversitesi, ABD
Didier Lemaire, Prof. Dr., Fransa
Dina Jadallah, Okutman., Güney California Üniversitesi, ABD
Dubravka Zarkov, Doç. Dr., Erasmus Üniversitesi, Hollanda
Efthimis Papavlasopoulos, Doç. Dr., Girit Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Eliane ESCOUBAS, Prof. Dr., Paris-XII-Paris-Est Üniversitesi (Emekli), Fransa
Elisa Van Waeyenberge, Dr., Londra Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Elizabeth Picard, Dr., directeur de recherche émérite, CNRS , Fransa
Elisabetta Addis, Prof. Dr., Sassari Üniversitesi, İtalya
Elisabetta Della Corte, Araştırmacı, Calabria Üniversitesi, İtalya
Elise Massicard, Öğr. Gör., Centre National de la Recherche scientifique, Fransa
Eric Alliez, Prof. Dr., Paris 8 Üniversitesi, Fransa
Eric Fassin, Prof. Dr., Paris-8 Üniversitesi, Fransa
Erik Bryngelsson, Doktora Öğr., Södertörn Üniversitesi, İsveç
Erik Swyngedouw, Prof. Dr., Manchester Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Estelle Amy de la Breteque, Paris Ouest Nanterre University, Fransa
Etienne Balibar, Prof. Dr., Université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre, Fransa
Etienne Copeaux, Prof. Dr., Fransa (emekli)
Etienne TASSIN, Prof. Dr., Université Paris Diderot, Fransa
Evrinomy Avdi, Doç. Dr., Selanik Aristotle Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Fernanda F. Pradal, Doktora Öğr., Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Fransa
Fotini Tsibiridou, Prof. Dr., Makedonya Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Françoise Felce, Araştırmacı, Siena Üniversitesi, İtalya
Frank Chouraqui, Yard. Doç. Dr., Leiden Üniversitesi, Hollanda
Frank Moulaert, Prof. Dr., Leuven Üniversitesi, Belçika
Franco Berardi, Academy of FIne Arts of Brera, İtalya
Frans Daems, Prof. Dr., Antwerp Üniversitesi, Belçika
Frédéric Neyrat, Doç. Dr., Limoges Üniversitesi, Fransa
Frédérique Ildefonse, Araştırmacı, CNRS, Fransa
Frieder Otto Wolf, Prof. Dr., Freie Universität Berlin, Almanya
Gabriella Coleman, Dr., McGill Üniversitesi, Kanada
Gaby Franger-Huhle, Prof. Dr, Almanya (emekli)
Gemma Maltese, Araştırmacı, Calabria Üniversitesi, İtalya
Gayatri Chakrovarty Spivak, Prof. Dr., Columbia Universitesi, ABD
Geert Dhondt, Yrd. Doç. Dr., New York Kent Üniversitesi, ABD
Gérard BOSSIERE, Prof. Dr.,. Nantes Üniversitesi, Fransa
Gerasimos Kakoliris, Okutman, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Yunanistan
Geoffrey Pleyers, Prof. Dr., Louvain Üniversitesi, Belçika
Gilbert Achcar, Prof. Dr., Londra Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Gilles Mailhot, Dr CNRS, Blaise Pascal Üniversitesi, Fransa
Gina Lennox, Dr, Araştırmacı, Charles Sturt Universitesi, Avustralya
Giuseppe Acconcia, Dr., Bocconi Üniversitesi, İtalya
Goran Erfani, Doktora Öğr., Newcastle Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Guido Maggioni, Prof. Dr., Università di Urbino "Carlo Bo", İtalya
Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc, Doç Dr., Toulouse Üniversitesi, Fransa
Gustavo da Silva Kern, Doktora Öğr., Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brezilya
Gustavo Esteva, Universidad de la Tierra en Oaxaca, Meksika
Hannes Lacher, Yrd. Doç. Dr., York Üniversitesi, Kanada
Hassan Hakimian , Dr., Londra Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Heinz Dieterich, Dr., Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Meksika
Helma Lutz, Prof. Dr., Goethe Üniversitesi, Almanya
Henrik Bohlin, Doç. Dr. Södertörn Universitesi İsveç
Herman De Ley, Prof. Dr., Ghent Üniversitesi (Emekli), Belçika
Howard Winant, Prof. Dr., Kaliforniya Üniversitesi, ABD
Hugo Radice, Öğr. Gör., Leeds Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Hugo Fazio, Profesör, Universidad de los Andes, Kolombiya
Ian J. Seda-Irizarry, Yrd. Doç. Dr., City University of New York, ABD
Idesbald Nicaise, Prof. Dr., KU Leuven, Belçika
Ilaria Possenti, Öğr. Gör., Verona Üniversitesi
Ilias Pistikos, Doktora öğr., Ege Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Immanuel Wallerstein, Prof. Dr., Yale Üniversitesi, ABD
Isabel Käser, Doktora Öğr., Londra Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Isabella M. Gioia, INAF-Istituto di Radioastronomia, İtalya
J. Octavio Obando Moran, Prof. Dr., Universidade Federal da Integração Latino Americana, Brezilya
Jack Amariglio, Prof. Dr., Merrimack College, ABD
jacqui lovell, Doktora öğr., York St John Universitesi, İngiltere
James Derounian, Öğr. Gör, University of Gloucestershire, İngiltere
James Petras, Emeritus Prof. Dr., Binghamton Üniversitesi (Emekli), ABD
James Schamus, Prof. Dr., Columbia Üniversitesi, ABD
Jamie Gough, Dr., Sheffield Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Jean Pinson, Prof. Dr., Université Paris Diderot, Fransa
Jean-Baptiste Le Moulec, Doktora Öğr., Institut d'Etudes Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, Fransa
Jean-Marie Frère, Université de Liège, Belçika
Jean-Numa Ducange, Doç. Dr., Normandie Üniversitesi, Fransa
Jeanne Hersant, Dr., Universidad de Playa Ancha, Şili
Jeb Sprague, Dr., California Üniversitesi, ABD
Jeff Goodwin, Prof. Dr. NYU, ABD
Joanna Williams, Senior lecturer, University of Kent, İngiltere
Joel Kovel, Prof. Dr., Bard College, ABD
Johanna Schaffer, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Almanya
John O'Neill, Prof. Dr., Manchester Üniversitesi, İngiltere
John S. Saul, Emeritus Prof. Dr.,York Universitesi, Kanada
John Smith, Dr., Kingston University, İngiltere
John Weeks, Prof. Dr., Londra Üniversitesi (Emekli), İngiltere
Jordan Skinner, Doktora Öğr., Central European University, Macaristan
Judith Butler, Prof. Dr., University of California, ABD
Judith L. Herman, Prof. Dr., Harvard Medical School, ABD
Julia Strutz, Dr., Ludwig-Maximilians Üniversitesi, Almanya
Kacper Poblocki, Dr., Varşova Üniversitesi, Polonya
Kalim Sididqui, Dr., Huddersfield Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Kanishka Goonewardena, Doç. Dr., Toronto Üniversitesi, Kanada
Katsanevaki Zampia, Ögretim Görevlisi, National Technical University of Athens, Yunanistan
Kathy Davis, Senior Research Fellow, VU University, Hollanda
Kees van der Pijl, Prof. Dr., Sussex Üniversitesi (Emekli), İngiltere
Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Doç. Dr., Binghamton Üniversitesi, ABD
Kevin B. Anderson, Prof. Dr., Kaliforniya Üniversitesi, ABD
Kim Scipes, Doç. Dr., Purdue Universitesi, USA
Konrad Hirschler, Prof. Dr., Londra Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Korina Hatzinikolaou, Öğr. Gör., Selanik Aristotle Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Kristin Sziarto, Doç. Dr., Wisconsin Üniversitesi, ABD
Kurt Bader, Prof. Dr., Lüneburg Üniversitesi, Almanya
Kwang-Yeong Shin, Prof. Dr., Seul Chung-Ang Üniversitesi, Kore
Kyrkos Doxiadis, Atina Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Laam Hae, Doç. Dr., York University, Kanada
Lars Peter Laamann, Dr., Londra Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Laura Colini, Dr., TESSERAE Urban and social research, Almanya
Laure Ortiz, Prof. Dr., Toulouse Üniversitesi, Fransa
Laurence Cox, Dr., National University of Ireland Maynooth, İrlanda
Leo Panitch, Prof. Dr., York Üniversitesi, Kanada
Leyla Keough, Yard. Doç. Dr., Hampshire College, ABD
Lilian Mathieu, CNRS, Fransa
Linden Nelson, Emeritus Prof. Dr, Kaliforniya Politeknik Eyalet Üniversitesi, ABD
Lorenzo Tripodi, Dr., Tesserae Urban Social Research, Almanya
Lorie Novak, New York Üniversitesi, ABD
Louis Bayman, Dr, Southampton Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Luc Berghmans, Okutman, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belçika
Luca Manunza, Dr., Università degli Studi Suor Orsola benincasa di Napoli, İtalya
Luca Mazzoleni, Pietracamela, İtalya
Lucas Wilson, Mount Holyoke College, ABD
Lucie Bacon, Doktora Öğr., Poitiers Üniversitesi, Fransa
Luigi De Gennaro, Yrd. Doç. Dr., Rome Sapienza Üniversitesi, İtalya
Lynne Segal, Prof. Dr., Londra Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Madeline Lutjeharms, Emeritus Prof. Dr., Vrije Universiteit, Emekli, Belçika
Maggie Schauer, Dr., Kontanz Üniversitesi, Almanya
Makris Pantelis, Prof. Dr., Selanik Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Maliha Safri, Doç. Dr., Drew Üniversitesi, ABD
Malte Albrecht, Marburg Üniversitesi, Almanya
Manjeet Ramgotra, Dr., Londra Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Manuel Antonio Garretón, Prof. Dr., Şili Üniversitesi, Şili
Manuela Zechner, Dr., Humboldt Üniversitesi, Almanya
Marc David, Prof. Dr., Antwerpen Üniversitesi, Belçika
Marc Jacquemain, Prof. Dr., Liege Üniversitesi, Belçika
Margit Mayer, Prof. Dr., Center for Metropolitan Studies, Almanya
Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp, Prof. Dr., Collège International de Philosophie de Paris, Fransa
Maria Hadjipavlou, Doç. Dr., Kıbrıs Üniversitesi (Emekli), Kıbrıs
María José Contreras, Universidad CAtólica de Chile (Şili Katolik Üniversitesi), Şili
María Soledad Falabella Luco, Invited Professor Master of Gender and Latin American Culture, Şili Üniversitesi, Şili
Marianne Hirsch, Prof. Dr., Columbia Üniversitesi, ABD
Marianne Berghmans, emekli ögretim görevlisi, Fransa
Marita Sturken, Prof. Dr., New York University, ABD
Mariya Ivancheva, Dr., University College Dublin, İrlanda
Mark Hobart, Prof. Dr., Londra Üniversitesi (Emekli)
Mark Price, Dr, Keynote Research Center
Markus Dressler, Doç. Dr., Bayreuth Üniversitesi, Almanya
Martin Sökefeld, Prof. Dr., Ludwig Maximilian Üniversitesi, Almanya
Massoud Sharifi Dryaz, Dr., EHESS, Fransa
Mathilde Pinon, Dr, IFEA, Fransa/Türkiye
Maurice Médebielle, Directeur de recherche CNRS,Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Fransa
Max Farrar, Prof. Dr. Leeds Beckett University, İngiltere
Michal Wanke, Ar. Gör., Opole Üniversitesi, Polonya; Doktora öğr., Jagiellonian University, Polonya
Michael Löwy, emeritus araştırma müdürü, CNRS, Fransa
Michael Loughlin, Manchester Metropolitan Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Michel Wieviorka, Prof.Dr, EHESS, Fransa
Micheline Rémy, Emekli Ögretim Görevlisi, Fransa
Michail Psimitis, Doç. Dr., Ege Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Michalis Spourdalakis, Profesör, Atina Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Michel Vanhoorne, Prof. Dr., Ghent Üniversitesi (Emekli), Belçika
Michèle Riot-Sarcey, Prof. Dr., Paris-8 Üniversitesi, Fransa
Minoo Alinia, Doç. Dr, Södertörn Üniversitesi, İsveç
Mohammad Moeini-Feizabadi, Öğr. Gör., Bennington Koleji, ABD
Nadje Al-Ali, Prof. Dr., Londra Üniversitesi, UK
Nancy Holmstrom, Prof Dr. Emerita, Rutgers Universitesi ABD
Nathalie Younès, Université Blaise Pascal, Fransa
Nawel Aït Ali, Doktora Öğr., EHESS, Fransa
Neil Korostoff, Doç. Dr., Pennsylvania State Üniversitesi, ABD
Nicholas Glastonbury, Doktora öğr., New York Kent Üniversitesi, ABD
Nicholas Smith, Okutman, Södertörn Üniversitesi, İsveç
Nicos Trimikliniotis, Doç. Dr., University of Nicosia
Nicola Pratt, Dr., Warwick Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Nikolas Tsaftaridis, Dr., National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Yunanistan
Nikos Christofis, Dr., Leiden Üniversitesi, Hollanda
Nina Schuster, Dr., Technische Universität Dortmund, Almanya
Noam Chomsky, Prof. Dr. (emekli), MIT (Massachussetts Teknoloji Enstitüsü), ABD
Nora Räthzel, Prof. Dr., Umeå University, İsveç
Norma Claire Moruzzi, Doç. Dr., University of Illinois at Chicago, ABD
Norman Paech, Prof. Dr., Hamburg Üniversitesi (Emekli), Almanya
Olivier Roueff, Chercheur au CNRS, Fransa
Orin Starn, Professor, Duke Universitesi
Pamela Steiner, Dr. Kıdemli araştırmacı, Harvard School of Public Health, ABD
Patrick Italiano, Researcher, Liege Üniversitesi, Belçika
Paul Bouffartigue, Araştırmacı, Aix Marseille Üniversitesi-CNRS, Fransa
Paul Guillibert, Doktora Öğr., Nanterre Üniversitesi, Fransa
Paul Kimmel, Dr. (emekli), Saybrook Universitesi
Peter Hermann, Prof. Dr., Bangor College, İngiltere
Phil Cerny, Prof. Dr., Manchester Üniversitesi (Emekli), İngiltere
Philippe DeVillé, Emeritus Prof. Dr., Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belçika
Philippe Kalfayan, Öğr. Gör. Paris 2 Üniversitesi, Fransa
Pierre BERNARD, Prof. Dr., Université Blaise Pascal de Clermont Ferrand (Emekli), Fransa
Pierre MARAGE, Emeritus Prof. Dr., Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belçika
Pierre Salama, Prof. Dr., Paris-13 Üniversitesi, Fransa
Pierre Zaoui, Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot, Fransa
Pola Diaz, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Fransa
Radu Leca, Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture, İngiltere
Rainier Hodde, Prof. Dr., Ecole Nationale Supérieure D'architecture, Fransa
Raphael Salkie, Profesör, Brighton Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Rasha Gamie, Doktora Öğr., Vrije Üniversitesi, Belçika
Ravi Arvind Palat, Prof. Dr., State University of New York at Binghamton, ABD
Rela Mazali, bağımsız araştırmacı, İsrail
Renata Salecl, Prof. Dr., Ljubljana Üniversitesi ile Londra Üniversitesi
Roberta Ferrario, Araştırmacı, CNR - Italian National Research Council, İtalya
Rocío Hiraldo, Doktora Öğr., University of East Anglia, İngiltere
Roger Southall, Prof. Dr., Witwatersrand Üniversitesi (Emekli), Güney Afrika
Ronald Grigor Suny, Prof. Dr., Michigan Üniversitesi ABD, Ulusal Araştırma Üniversitesi Rusya, Chicago Üniversitesi ABD
Rosa Rosano, Doktora Öğr., Université de Bourgogne, Fransa
Rosalind C. Morris, Prof. Dr., Columbia Üniversitesi, ABD
Ruddy Doom, Prof. Dr., Ghent Üniversitesi (Emekli), Belçika
Ruth Felder, Öğr. Gör., Buenos Aires Üniversitesi, Arjantin
Saba Mahmood, Prof. Dr., Kaliforniya Üniversitesi, ABD
Sabine Hess, Prof. Dr., Göttingen Üniversitesi, Almanya
Sabine Strasser, Prof. Dr., Bern Üniversitesi, İsviçre
Said Shams, Soran University, Irak
Samir Amin, Prof. Dr., Üçüncü Dünya Forumu, Dakar, Senegal
Sandra L. Bloom, Doç Dr., Dornsife School of Public Health, ABD
Sandro Mezzadra, Doç. Dr., Bologna Üniversitesi, İtalya
Sandro Rinauro, State University of Milan, İtalya
Sara De Carlo, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II', İtalya
Sarah Mazouz, Dr., Humboldt Üniversitesi, Almanya
Sascha Facius, Doktora Öğr., Humboldt Üniversitesi, Almanya
Sebastian Barros, Professor, National University of Patagonia, Arjantin
Seyla Benhabib, Prof. Dr., Yale Üniversitesi, ABD
Shannon Brincat, Dr., Araştırmacı, Griffith Universitesi, Avustralya
Sima Aprahamian Hovhannessian, Dr., Concordia Üniversitesi, Kanada
Simon Mapadimeng, Prof. Dr., Nortwest Üniversitesi, Güney Afrika
Sinibaldo De Rosa, Doktora Öğr., Exeter Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Slavoj Zizek, Prof Dr, Uluslararası Müdür, The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London
Sofia Triliva, Doç. Dr., Girit Üniversitesi, Yunanistan
Sophie Bessis, araştırmacı (chercheur associé), Institut des relations internationales et stratégiques (IRIS),Fransa
Sophie Wahnich, directrice de recherche au CNRS, Fransa
Spyros A. Sofos, Öğr. Gör., Lund Üniversitesi, İsveç
Stefan Kipfer, Doç. Dr., York Universitesi, Kanada
Stefania Zuliani, Doç. Dr., Università degli Studi di Salerno, İtalya
Stefano Ba', Öğr. Gör., Leeds Trinity Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Stelios Gialis, Yrd.Doç. Dr., University of Aegean, Yunanistan
Stuart Shields, Doç. Dr., Manchester Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Stuart Turner, Trauma Clinic London, İngiltere
Susan Buck-Morss, Prof. Dr., Cuny Graduate Center, ABD
Susan Engel, Dr., University of Wollongong, Avustralya
Susanne Schultz, Prof. Dr., Viyana Üniversitesi, Avusturya
Svenja Schulte, Université Paris 8, Fransa
Tadas Zaronskis, Doktora Öğr., Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Fransa
Tanja Ehmann, Dr., Humboldt Üniversitesi, Almanya
Tania Vosniadou Ph.D., Yunanistan
Tariq Ali, Yazar, İngiltere
Thomas Diez, University of Tuebingen, Almanya
Thomas Marois, Okutman, Londra Üniversitesi, İngiltere
Thomas Seibert, Dr., Yazar.
Tracy Prince, Ph.D. , Portland State University, ABD
Troels Krarup, Doktora Öğr., Science Po, Fransa
Ulrika Dahl, Doç. Dr., Södertörn University, İsveç
Ulrika Nilsson, doktora öğr., Södertörn university college, İsveç
Valentin Schaepelynck, maître de conférences, Université Paris 8, Fransa
Valentina D'Odorico, PhD, INAF Trieste Astronomical Observatory, İtalya
Valentine M. Moghadam, Prof. Dr. Northeastern Universitesi , ABD
Vasco Meneghini, Dr.,İmagine İnstitute, Fransa
Vera Polido, Doktora Öğr., Oxford Brookes University, İngiltere
Veronica Pravadelli, Professor, Università degli studi Roma Tre (Roma Tre Universitesi), İtalya
Viola Paolinelli, Roma Tre Üniversitesi, İtalya
Warren Montag, Prof. Dr., Occidental College, ABD
Wenceslas Lizé, Poitiers Üniversitesi, Fransa
Wendy Hamelink, Dr., Leiden Üniversitesi, Hollanda
Werner Bonefeld, Prof. Dr., York Üniversitesi, BK
Wilfried Altzinger, Doç. Dr., Viyana Üniversitesi, Avusturya
William Martin, Prof. Dr., Binghamton Üniversitesi, ABD
Willie van Peer, Prof. Dr., Ludwig Maximilian Universitesi, Almanya
Yair Wallach, Dr., Okutman, Londra Üniversitesi, UK
Yanick Noiseux, Montreal Üniversitesi, Kanada
Yasmine Siblot, Paris-8 Üniversitesi, Fransa

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Ahmed Hammad, /Med'H
Claire Daniel, Çevirmen, Madrid, İspanya
D Flinter, MA, Trinity College Dublin,
Damien Flinter MA, Trinity College Dublin
Daniela Garcia, Araştırmacı, chercheuse dans l'Industrie de l'énergie, syndicaliste, Fransa
Darwesh Obeid, öğrenci , Dublin City Universitesi , İrlanda
Davide Acquanita, University of Genoa, Student
Fabienne Biehler, restorasyon Fransa
Kritnet - Netzwerk kritische Migrations- und Grenzregimeforschung, Almanya
Madeleine Kennedy-Macfoy, Belçika
Marion Bottolier, comédienne Paris, Fransa
Paul Gluckin, ögretmen, Fransa
Silvia Bertapelle, ögretmen, Liceo artistico statale, İtalya
Sam Friedman, Aids araştırmacısı, ABD
Thomas Lacoste, sinema yönetmeni, La Bande Passante, Fransa
Yannis Youlountas, filozof ve yazar, Yunanistan/Fransa
Barbara Spinelli, Avrupa Parlamentosu Üyesi

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Dear comrades of popular movements, unions, political parties, civil
society organizations, pastoral organizations and militants of our
peoples’ causes:
During the III International Conference "Dilemmas of the Humanity",
which gathered hundreds of militants from all continents, we perceived
the need of a fluid exchange of information about the struggles carried
out in our respective countries.
Mainly because systematized and politically emancipatory information
does not always reach militants as it should, despite the high amount of
news that surface on the internet. We also perceived the lack of a
communicational bond among the continents. And one of the biggest
obstacles for that is language.
Therefore, we decided to make a joint effort in order to publish a
newsletter in English language that covers news about the struggles of
the people.
In order to do this, we have joined forces with Resumen
Latinoamericano(digital medium and newspaper headquartered in Buenos
Aires), the Secretariat  of the Coalition of ALBA’s Social Movements
(which edit their own popular movements newsletter, that covers the
Americas) and comrades from the US.
Nonetheless, we do not wish for it to be a newsletter of the Americas
only; it is supposed to benefit all continents.
In order to achieve this objective, each movement, organization and/or
militant must make an effort to update us with content – news, photos,
struggles carried out in their countries–, so that our coverage
becomes as representative as possible. The more people collaborate, the
more representative of all continents our newsletter will be. We ask you
to send content to: news.thedawn@gmail.com
The newsletter will be sent regularly, and as more people take part in
this process, we hope it becomes better and widens its coverage.
If you have any suggestions on which organizations and/or people would
benefit from receiving this newsletter, we invite you to send their
e-mail to: secretaria@albamovimientos.org.br. This will allow us to add
them to our mailing lists.
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feel free to do so through the same e-mail. Your suggestions will be
indeed welcome.
Finally, we encourage you to resend the content or freely distribute it
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Kyrkans organ för bönderna mycket bekymrat

Den politiska striden hårdnar i Brasilien CPT (kyrkans arbete bland småbönder) är bekymrade över högerns ökade inflytande i kongressen BBB (Boi, bala e biblia) ett samlingsnamn för dessa intressen, storgodsägare, militärer och konservativa kristna, är på offensiven Svårare att bestraffa slavarbete, svårare för indianers rätt till land, mera bemanningsföretag, Lägre straffålder och enklare att öppna gruvor De är bekymrade men anser samtidigt att Dilma inte lyssnat på de utsatta Härunder brevet,

Lennart

O momento político atual e a surdez do governo Dilma

A Diretoria e a Coordenação Executiva Nacional da Comissão Pastoral da Terra – CPT vêm a público se manifestar sobre o grave momento da conjuntura nacional, cujo foco na polarização da crise política, em muito enviesada e distorcida, obscurece a percepção dos atuais conflitos violentos contra os povos do campo.

O país viveu, neste ano de 2015, um período conturbado pela recessão econômica e pela crise política que encurralaram a presidência da República. A incompetência no enfrentamento da crise econômica, as denúncias diárias de corrupção que atingem o PT e aliados de seu governo de coalizão têm sido utilizadas pela oposição para uma busca ilegítima do poder que ameaça desestabilizar a ordem democrática. A corrupção, endêmica na vida política brasileira, é apresentada, sobretudo pelos meios de comunicação, como a maior e mais grave da história deste país.  Esquece-se que somente agora estes casos estão sendo investigados e punidos.

A crise econômica tem sido potencializada ao máximo por uma crise política alimentada diariamente na mídia e por um Congresso Nacional venal e obscurantista, que tenta um processo de impedimento da Presidenta da República com mais que frágeis argumentos.

Este Congresso tem demonstrado publicamente o quanto é refém e está a serviço do poder econômico que custeou as caras campanhas eleitorais dos seus ocupantes. Os interesses do povo, sobretudo os dos mais fracos, de forma alguma são prioridade da maioria dos congressistas. Isto se torna evidente pelas proposições e defesas da poderosa bancada ruralista, e das bancadas da bala e evangélica, que se tornaram conhecidas como a bancada do BBB - do boi, da bala e da bíblia.

Os interesses por trás destas bancadas se revelam na aprovação das leis da terceirização do trabalho e da redução da idade penal e nas tentativas, já em fase adiantada nos procedimentos regimentais, de desmonte dos direitos indígenas e de outras comunidades tradicionais com a PEC 215, com o projeto de lei que quer modificar o conceito de trabalho escravo, e com a pressa em aprovar um código de mineração que prioriza os interesses das mineradoras em detrimento das comunidades atingidas.

A avalanche contra os pequenos se consubstancia ainda na CPI da FUNAI e do INCRA para barrar todo e qualquer avanço no reconhecimento dos direitos territoriais dos povos indígenas, das comunidades quilombolas e de outras comunidades tradicionais.

O que acontece em nível nacional se reproduz em nível estadual. No Mato Grosso do Sul, a violência contra os indígenas campeia solta com ações quase diárias de agressões às aldeias e aos acampamentos, sobretudo em áreas próprias retomadas pelos indígenas. Na esteira destas ações a Assembleia Legislativa constituiu uma CPI para investigar o Conselho Indigenista Missionário, CIMI, pelo apoio que tem dado à causa dos povos indígenas. Com isso tenta desmobilizar e desmoralizar a luta indígena, sugerindo que os indígenas não são capazes de defender seus próprios interesses.

Aproveitando-se deste cenário mais que sombrio, como já temos reiterado mais de uma vez, tem crescido de forma assustadora a violência contra os trabalhadores e trabalhadoras do campo. Até o final de novembro, o Centro de Documentação Dom Tomás Balduino, da CPT, tinha registrado o mais alto número de assassinatos no campo, desde 2004, 46 pessoas - camponeses, sobretudo posseiros, sem terra e assentados da reforma agrária. 44 destas mortes ocorreram na Amazônia.  A maior parte dos conflitos nesta região está relacionada a terras públicas griladas. A fraqueza do Estado em recuperar estas áreas para destiná-las à Reforma Agrária, como manda a Constituição, favorece que os ataques de grileiros e pistoleiros se multipliquem, bem como as invasões de áreas e a expulsão de famílias.

Tão ou mais grave que o mar de lama da Samarco em Mariana, Minas Gerais, é o mar de lama que escorre do mundo da política. Pois enquanto a lama da Samarco afeta a bacia do Rio Doce, a que escorre do Congresso Nacional, das assembleias legislativas e de gabinetes de Brasília e dos estados afetam sonhos e esperanças de toda nação brasileira, sobretudo dos mais pobres.   

Neste cenário de sombras, ainda bem, algumas luzes se acendem. Tem crescido o número de sem terra que fazem ocupações em busca de um pedaço de chão para viver e plantar. Nas cidades, jovens têm se destacado na luta em defesa da educação pública e de qualidade diante de tentativas de fechamento e de uma reorganização questionável de escolas, ou da entrega do ensino público a Organizações Sociais (OS), como acontece em Goiás. As ocupações das escolas pelos estudantes, com apoio de suas famílias, em São Paulo e em Goiás, são um grito de alerta para uma sociedade sonolenta.  A organização dos jovens, o cuidado com os espaços ocupados, o uso das tecnologias de comunicação soam para os ouvidos atentos como fina música de um concerto de harmonias que pareciam perdidas.

 A Diretoria e a Coordenação Executiva Nacional da CPT, ao mesmo tempo em que denunciam as tentativas da quebra da normalidade democrática, lamentam a falta de sensibilidade do governo Dilma no atendimento às reivindicações populares. Nunca um governo, desde o final dos anos de chumbo da ditadura militar, foi tão surdo às demandas populares, no campo e nas cidades, quanto o governo Dilma. Foi o governo que menos reconheceu terras indígenas e territórios quilombolas e o que menos fez assentamentos de sem terra. As decantadas políticas sociais, decadentes sob os cortes do ajuste econômico que mais uma vez favorece os que têm poder, já não conseguem aludir a uma imagem “popular” do governo.

A surdez da Presidência se tornou quase uma afronta aos homens e mulheres do campo com a nomeação para o Ministério da Agricultura da senadora Kátia Abreu, que sempre se mostrou inimiga dos movimentos do campo e do meio ambiente em plena crise climática. E diante de tantos apelos dos mais diversos movimentos populares, mantém o ministro da Fazenda totalmente alinhado aos interesses da classe dominante.

Esperamos que a estrela que conduziu os Magos até Belém possa conduzir nosso país nos caminhos da normalidade democrática, duramente conquistada, e na superação dos entraves que impedem o reconhecimento efetivo dos direitos dos pequenos e pobres.

Goiânia, 17 de dezembro de 2015.

Diretoria Nacional e Coordenação Executiva Nacional da CPT

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"From now on, no more unemployed," claims João Pedro Stedile

In an interview assessing the year ending and pointing to 2016, the MST leader states that the year that passed was a "lost year for Brazilian workers" and that the [popular] movements should demand changes in economic policy: "no more unemployed."

12.28.2015

By Bruno Pavan,
São Paulo (SP)

The year ending represented an extremely complex situation for Brazil. Faced with such a scenario, the popular movements built new connections of spaces for social struggles.

João Pedro Stedile, of the national directorate of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) and member of the Brazil Popular Front, believes that 2015 was "a lost year for Brazilian workers."

In an interview with Brazil de Fato, Stedile believes that "the drama of impeachment" must end by April 2016 and that next year will be marked by the struggle over the conduct of government economic policy. "No more unemployed," argues João Pedro.

Check out the full interview:

Brazil de Fato - How do you assess how the movements that make up the Brazil Popular Front are doing in the year that is ending, in terms of struggles and political confrontations?

João Pedro Stedile - The Brazil Popular Front is a broad front, an alliance of the different forms of organization of our people: popular movements, from the youth, trade unions and parties. We always take decisions by consensus; we have no governing bodies, nor spokesmen. So I can’t and shouldn’t speak for the Brazil Popular Front. I speak from what I see in the movements of Via Campesina, in popular movements and in my travels around Brazil. Overall, I think we can say that 2015 was a lost year for Brazilian workers. A year in which political mediocrity reigned. Most of the Brazilian people, with its 54 million votes, re-elected President Dilma [PT – Worker’s Party]. However, sectors of the ruling classes and the more conservative parties came up and wanted to resume the command of the Executive in tapetão.* They began conspiring since Dilma took office. For this they used the spaces in which they have hegemony – such as the corporate media, the judiciary and Congressional power - to try to overthrow the president. The federal government got scared, set up a mediocre ministry, which does not represent the forces that elected the president. And she [Dilma Rousseff, president of Brasil] spent the year defending herself, creating a situation of dispute and maneuvers just around the small policy.

And what is the assessment of the mobilizations?

Well, I think there was a year well played. Earlier, in March and April, many sectors of the institutional left did not want to go into the street. It was we, the popular movements and the unions, which insisted on the line that our main dispute with the right should be on the street. The Right peaked in March, and then decreasing in August and was met with ridicule in December. And the popular movements did the opposite direction: we were increasing slowly, and gave the change in December, with mass mobilizations in many capital cities, mainly São Paulo. I think we can now involve not only the militants, but many of the base began to stir and also went to the street. I think, on the street, the impeachment is defeated. For the small reactionary bourgeoisie who ranted calling for a coup, the return of the military, could not mobilize anyone other than themselves. In addition, the petty bourgeoisie in Brazilian society is negligible in terms of social base.

And the economy, which is the assessment?

The assessment is extremely negative in the economy. The Brazilian economy is going through a serious crisis, the result of its dependence on international capitalism and the hegemonic control of banks and transnational corporations. We ended the year with a drop of 4% in GDP. Productive investments fell, either by the government and state enterprises, or by entrepreneurs. The government committed a number of mistakes that exacerbated the crisis. First, it brought a neoliberal to the Ministry of Finance, which certainly would have been the ministry of the crony, Aécio Neves. Neoliberal measures increased the 7% interest rate to 14.25%, cuts in social spending, such fiscal adjustment, only produced more problems for the people and the economy. Inflation reached 10% per annum and unemployment averaged 8.9% of the working class. The National Treasury paid 484 billion reais in interest and amortization to banks. They used public money to ensure the profiteering of financial speculation, rather than investing in problem solving and productive investment. Fortunately, the minister fell. He left, however, a lost year. It is necessary to change the economic policy, not just the manager.

How do the popular movements analyze the environmental tragedy that happened in Mariana?

2015 will be marked by greatest environmental crime of the country's history, and perhaps one of the largest in the world. And what happened? The demand of the mining companies, in this case Vale, is to have maximum profit. In other countries, the waste [run-off, pollution] of the mining companies would have been treated. However, that costs more. Here, covered up by politicians and benevolent authorities that Vale finances, Vale prefers to let [the waste] be contained in dams – a procedure, according to experts, which has no safety. Already five dams have broken in the country, and there are another 48 under similar conditions. Thousands of people were affected. They killed the River Doce, along its entire length of 700 kilometers. And nobody knows how all this can be recovered. If we had a more courageous government, it was time to propose the re-nationalization of Vale, and use all their income to repair the damage. Incidentally, stalled for years is the process that annulled the auction of Vale [when Vale was privatized] for fraud, in the Federal Regional Court of Pará.

What is your evaluation of the performance of Congress, especially the House of Representatives, during 2015?

The Congress was the largest mirror of the political mediocrity during the year. First it elected Eduardo Cunha [PMDB-RJ] as Speaker of the House, although everyone knew of his schemes. And when he learned that the Prosecutor's Office would ask for his dismissal and imprisonment, he stepped forward and proposed the impeachment of President Dilma. But the spell turned against the witch and President Dilma was saved by the cruelty and manipulation of the sorcerer, who used false arguments. I'm sure that with the rite given by the Supreme Court, certainly the government will have the necessary votes in the House and Senate to stop the process.

It is necessary that Mr. Cunha is judged by the Supreme Court as soon as possible. But beyond the antics of this Brazilian Ali Baba, Congress proved extremely conservative in all matters submitted, some being approved, representing a setback, the destruction of constituency of 88 [National Constituent Assembly of 1988 which drew up a democratic constitution(link is external) for Brazil,(link is external) after 21 years under military rule.(link is external) The work of the Constituent Assembly was closed on September 2, 1988, after the vote and approval of the final text of the new Brazilian Constitution] and a complete dichotomy with the desires and practices of society. Various weird projects, meaningless, are going through Congress, especially the House. From the reduction of legal age for criminal punishment as an adult, the prohibition of putting on labels that the product is transgenic - denying information to the consumer, authorization for the use of sterile seeds; the privatization of Petrobras - Sierra senator's project [PSDB], to homophobic and extremely reactionary measures. All this is the result of the failure of the Brazilian parliamentary democracy, caused by the hijacking that companies have made by financing millions for political campaigns. According to the former minister Ciro Gomes, Congressman Eduardo Cunha would have distributed 350 million reais from companies to elect crony congresspersons, who now defend...

And what is the solution to this malfunction of Brazilian democracy?

We from the popular movements have defended the need for profound political reform, which make several changes in the political system, the electoral system, to return to the people the right to choose without media influences or capital. There are several bills introduced in the House, by various entities of the Democratic Coalition ... But this Congress does not want, nor is moral, to cut their own fingers. So, we can only fight for a Constituent Assembly, which will only come with rekindling the mass movement. So it will take, but it's the beginning output of a feasible and necessary policy.

And we had some achievement on the agenda of agrarian reform? How are the struggles and the government in this sector?

It was also a lost year for the landless and for family farms. The government escalated a good team in the Ministry of Agrarian Development and INCRA, but handed the Ministry of Agriculture to the worst in Brazilian politics. And with the cuts of neoliberal fiscal adjustment agrarian reform has been hit. The few achievements that occurred were the result of a lot of mobilization and social pressure. The government has not fulfilled its promise to accelerate the settlement of 120 thousand families camped in the country. There weren’t any new contracts for home construction in rural areas. The National Supply Company (Conab) left very good programs of the EAP (food program) involving simultaneous delivery to urban entities; there were resource cuts for Pronera [rural education] and for Ates (technical assistance to the settlers). Everything stood or worsened. In previous governments, we had won the national plan for the reduction of use of poisons (Pronara), seven ministers signed but the minister of poison in agriculture vetoed it, and the president did not dare to enact. The program to support agro-ecological agriculture (Planalpo), has good guidelines, but does not have resources ... and so on. We lost a year in family agriculture and agrarian reform. I hope the government stops deluding itself about agribusiness, which coupled with the profit of commodity exports by transnational corporations, but does not represent any gain for society. Even in agribusiness investments in machinery and inputs fell 30%.

What are the political prospects for the year 2016, from the viewpoint of popular movements?

We expect that by April the impeachment drama will end. And from there, the government recompose with a new alliance of ruling parties, with a new ministry adequate to the reality of society. And the government will again assume the commitments it made in the campaign. If the government does not give signs that it will change, it will take that defended the campaign, it will be a government that condemns itself to failure. It has no confidence of the elites, who tried to overthrow it, and at the same time does not take measures for the immense social base, which is 85% of the population. I hope the government has a minimum of political vision to choose the right side.

CUT has already expressed by the change of economic policy and made criticism of the government Dilma. How do you see this process?

CUT [Central Workers Union] and other unions had a very good performance during the year 2015, when they mobilized their bases, against the coup, but also to defend the rights of workers. I also read the note that CUT is welcoming the departure of Levy [Joaquim Levy, pro-austerity Minister of Finance, who resigned on December 18, 2015], but cautions the government that we need to change economic policy. And the signs that Mr. Barbosa [Nelson Barbosa, current Minister of Finance] is giving the press are not good, to resume neoliberal-corporate agenda of pension reform to raise the minimum age, tax reform, to consolidate the exemptions and labor reform to break the CLT {Brazilian labor laws]. CUT has warned that it will fight. And we will also together with the trade union movement. If the government increases the minimum age of rural retirement, there will be a revolt in the countryside and against the government. I'm just warning you.

Is there an alternative proposal for economic policy by the popular movements?

In 2015, about 150 of our best economists in the universities, trade unions and research institutes spent months discussing and presented a document with short and medium-term measures to exit the economic crisis. The government did not take the ball. It took the Brazil Popular Front to present the document to the government, which only occurred on December 16th. I have listened to many economists, entrepreneurs, researchers and nationalist politicians. And all have clear proposals. The problem is that the government is deaf and self-sufficient. The government needs to urgently present a recovery plan of economic growth, and propose a pact between workers and employers to cease rising unemployment. No more unemployed, beginning now.

I have heard proposals that could use $100 billion of our reserves – of which there are $350 billion - and therefore would not affect the flow of trade and no external payment. With these features, apply to productive investment in the economy, such as construction, which quickly enables all the economy, in infrastructure of the cities, family agriculture and education. Imagine applying over a few months 400 billion reais [about $100 billion dollars] into productive investments, certainly they would activate the economy to return to growth, providing jobs and income also for workers.

The government should lower the interest rate, and part of the funds paid to banks in interest move to Petrobras, resume their works, some there are only 10% to complete and are stopped. Also transfer resources to the BNDES [Brazilian Development Bank] to finance industry and big business in the cities. Proposals abound. The government lacks the courage to build a large social coalition of popular forces and businesses, to change the direction of its economic policy. If you continue the same bureaucracy and public accounts, it will be a government doomed to failure, and there is no way to defend it. For this it needs to show signs soon.

Even if you assess that the resolution of impeachment will take place at the beginning of the year, how are the movements organizing to address the issue?

During the month of January every movement will make their assessments, balance sheets and draw the lessons of 2015. Then we will conduct our national plenary Brazil Popular Front, to see what we will do together in 2016.

For now, there is a political will that, in the days or weeks of the decisive votes of the impeachment process, an encampment will be organized in Brasilia and the legislative assemblies in the capital. And also do massive vigils, in defense of democracy and against the coup. I attended a mobilization and popular assembly in Porto Alegre [RS], where we approved that we will repeat the encampment in front of the Piratini Palace [seat of the executive branch in the state of Rio Grande do Sul], in memory of Leonel Brizola, who in August 1961 broke the coup against Goulart [João Goulart, 24th president of Brazil, deposed by a military coup in 1964], in his campaign for legality. Now is the vigil for democracy and repeat the camp in front of the Piratini Palace.

Addressing expectations and outlook for 2016 are municipal elections part of this scenario?

The expectation we have is that the climate for mass mobilizations will increase during the first half of 2016: on the one hand, various sectors of the working class are facing more problems with unemployment, inflation; the other, more social sectors are realizing that only exit from the crisis is with popular mobilizations. The election period should galvanize attention only during the timing of campaigns. And yet, as there is a discouragement with the institutional policy, it is likely that in large cities there is an apathy for the process. In the inner cities, which determines municipal elections always revolves around people and families.

Finally, in your opinion, how should popular and leftist organizations behave next year?

We still have many challenges, historical; we must face the [next] year and the medium term. Brazilian society is facing an economic, social, political and environmental crisis. And this crisis will only be overcome with a project of the country that can bring together the majority of society to create a new hegemony around it. The financial capital and transnational corporations want to return to neoliberalism, but fail to achieve social hegemony, because Brazilians know that this project is concerned only with the big capitalists. The internal bourgeoisie, profitable, does not have a project. The petty bourgeoisie wanted impeachment and will be defeated. And the working class has not yet united around a project for the country. It is still stunned watching the problems.

We have the challenge to connect all means of popular alternative media, to cope with the daily massacre of the bourgeois media.

We have the challenge to take back the debate on the need for political reform, which will come only with a Constituent Assembly. And we have the challenge of pressuring the government to change its economic policy, to prevent the worsening of the problems of the economy and the working class. And if the government does not change until April, giving clear signals of which side it is on, it will surely lose its social base, and will become a government of permanent crisis until 2018.

Link: http://www.brasildefato.com.br/node/33797(link is external)

*An expression used in soccer when a team loses on the field, they take their case to the soccer “court.”

Backlash i Brasilien, högern och jordägarna slår tillbaka

Samtidigt med försöken att avsätta Dilma flyttar högern fram sina positioner, kan bero på nya styrkeförhållanden, backlash på gång redan nu? Kyrkans organ som stöder småbönder (CPT) påpekar att man nu angriper lagstiftningen kring slavliknande arbete. Ett förslag ligger i senaten att ta bort kraven på att egendomar som använder sig av slavarbetskraft skall köpas upp av staten.

ESCRAVIDÃO NO BRASIL, BASTA!

Hoje 10 de dezembro de 2015, Dia Internacional dos Direitos Humanos, na calada da noite escura que encobre um Congresso Nacional mais que nunca ilhado do povo real, o Senado Federal está pronto para dar um golpe fatal a um direito humano duramente conquistado pela sociedade brasileira nestes mais de 40 anos de combate à escravidão moderna.

Descartando qualquer discussão democrática, está para ser votada hoje a redução da definição legal do que é trabalho escravo no Brasil, numa lamentável tentativa para tornar inócua a Emenda Constitucional 81/2014 que determinou o confisco da propriedade onde trabalho escravo for encontrado. Ao ser aprovado o PLS 432/2013 de autoria do senador Romero Jucá, ficarão descartados como elementos caracterizadores deste crime a imposição de condições degradantes e de jornada exaustiva de trabalho.

Eu, Brígida Rocha, 32 anos, mãe, filha de trabalhadores rurais, assistente social no Centro de Defesa da Vida e dos Direitos Humanos de Açailândia, MA, e educadora da Campanha Nacional De Olho Aberto para não Virar Escravo, da Comissão Pastoral da Terra, venho a público denunciar esta manobra espúria que envergonha a todos nós.

Estando ás vésperas de receber o Prêmio Nacional de Direitos Humanos na categoria Combate e Enfrentamento ao Trabalho Escravo, gostaria apenas de ter vindo a público agradecer pela insígnia honra e pelo reconhecimento de tantos amigos e parceiros e parceiras desta luta. Sei que todos os resultados desses longos anos de luta são frutos da dedicação coletiva de milhares de militantes dos direitos humanos, Brasil afora. Somos muitos, somos agentes de cidadania, educadores sociais, advogados/as, assistentes sociais, psicólogos/as, lideranças, religiosos/as, missionários/as, crianças, adolescentes, artistas, quilombolas, indígenas, quebradeiras de coco, ribeirinhos, assentados, sem terras, ainda temos parceiros auditores/as fiscais do trabalho, procuradores/as do trabalho, e tantos outros que procuram construir uma rede eficiente de ação integrada para combater a escravidão. Todos irmanados naquele sonho de um país que garante justiça, liberdade e dignidade aos seus filhos e filhas, sem exceção. Por isso resistimos!

Gostaria, sim. Mas hoje estou com vontade de chorar.

Quantas vezes - este é meu trabalho diário – não escutei de trabalhadores/as que nos procuram que já não aguentam mais beber agua do açude barrento onde o gado também bebe, de comer carne apenas quando conseguem uma caça, de dormir amontoado no pequeno barraco de lona, sem paredes, ou mesmo no curral, repleto de embalagens de agrotóxicos e outros “Mata tudo”. Quantas vezes não presenciei eles pedirem a Deus para não chover, para que não tenham que passar mais uma noite no molhado? Ou não comer outra vez arroz com molho de pimenta malagueta ou feijão temperado só com sal? Ou não acordar de madrugada para preparar o boião ou a marmita e seguir para a juquira, e comer lá nas matas sem se quer ter agua de lavar as mãos, ou poder se quer descansar meia hora porque tem gato cobrando produção? Ou não ter que aguentar caladinho e humilhado, os palavrões que, de gente, os reduziram a coisa ou a bicho? Ou não ter que seguir trabalhando no medo de apanhar outra vez, sem outra opção a não ser sair fugir dos tiros, com corpo já marcado por panadas de facão, e pés inchados de correr nas matas?

Isso, ouvi e vi de tantos homens que fugiram de fazendas e carvoarias. Nem falo da falta de equipamentos de proteção, dos acidentes fatais, do pagamento que não vem nunca, da família que sofre.

Ficam tão cansados, tão enfadados que, ao chegarem, muitos desmaiam e até adoecem. Tudo isso é apenas metade do que vivenciam e nos contam.

Tudo isso são as condições degradantes e a jornada exaustiva que nossos nobres congressistas se preparam a eliminar de uma canetada. Desde quando isso não é a expressão óbvia da escravidão? Por qual malabarismo, pretendem agora reduzir a escravidão apenas às figuras tradicionais da servidão por dívida e do trabalho forçado, quando a experiência de mais de 50 mil brasileiros libertados do trabalho escravo desde 1995 está aí para testemunhar?

Todos os dias, temos sobreviventes desse crime ameaçados de morte ou ficando inválidos. Muitos já morreram. Todos os dias, há militantes ameaçados de morte, por denunciar isto. Buscam nos amedrontar e calar nossa voz. Basta!

Por isso estou aqui a gritar: Senadores, não cometam essa insensatez! Vão para consulta popular! Congressistas, tenham a vergonha do Brasil na cara! Presidenta Dilma, não tolere essa balbúrdia! E se eles teimam, veta!

Brígida Rocha, brasileira 

Ut med Eduardo Cunha

MST protesterar mot den gravt korrumperade Eduardo Cunha som nu inlett processen med impeachment av Dilma, trots att det är han som är den verkligt korrumperade. Man ser detta som en statskupp mot den demokratiskt valda Dilma

STATEMENT FROM MST ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT DILMA

The Landless Rural Workers Movement - MST, publicly denounces the attempt at an institutional coup d'Etat against the President of the Republic, Dilma Rousseff, promoted by the President of the Federal Chamber, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB/RJ), and reaffirms its commitment with the defense of democracy and the respect of the vote.  

We reject the behavior of Deputy Eduardo Cunha and we reaffirme that he is the reflection of the explicit alliance between the corporate media, led by the Globo network, together with the righ-wing political parties. Therefore, he lacks the moral, ethical or political legitimacy to propose the impeachment of the President of the Republic. 

All the attacks on the rights of the working class launched under the Presidency of Eduardo Cunha in the Chamber of Deputies, are being repelled with a great FORA CUNHA! (CUNHA OUT!) campaign. Therefore, we will still wave that flag until Cunha falls and his criminal culpability is proven in the established processes, resulting in his immediate imprisonment. 

We stress the need for the Dilma Administration to assume the program it was elected on in 2014 and excercise a mandate that defends the working class. Nevertheless, we do not accept any type of coup and we will defend the President's mandate legitmated by the votes. At the same time, we will continue struggling against the current economic policy of neoliberal characteristics, implemented under President Dima's second term, which penalizes the Brazilian population, promotes a regress in labor rights, benefits rentist capital and signals the surrender of our natural resources to the plundering of international capital. 

We believe that the political, economic, social and environmental crisis that we are undergoing today demands deep structural reforms that secure the consolidation and deepening of democracy, promote the distribution of income and wealth produced here and guarantee the sovereignty of our country. 

That is why we call upon all the militants and all the working class to struggle for the abrogation of the mandate and imprisonment of Eduardo Cunha under the understanding that only with structural reforms we can place Brazil in a new platform for democracy and social justice. 

Landless Rural Workers Movement - MST

Sao Paulo, December 3, 2015

- NOTA DO MST SOBRE O IMPEACHMENT DA PRESIDENTA DILMA

O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra vem à público denunciar a tentativa de golpe institucional contra Presidenta da República, Dilma Rousseff, promovido pelo presidente da Câmara Federal, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB/RJ) e reafirma seu compromisso em defesa da democracia e do respeito ao voto.

Repudiamos o comportamento do deputado Eduardo Cunha e afirmamos que ele é reflexo da aliança explícita entre a mídia empresarial, liderada pela Rede Globo, seguida por partidos políticos de direita. Logo, não tem legitimidade moral, ética ou política de propor o impedimento da presidência da república. 

Todos os ataques aos direitos da classe trabalhadora, proferidos sob a Presidência de Eduardo Cunha na Câmara de Deputados, estão sendo respondidos com um grande FORA CUNHA! Portanto, seguiremos empunhando essa bandeira até que o Cunha caia e seja provada a sua culpabilidade criminosa nos processos instaurados, sendo imediatamente preso.

Salientamos a necessidade de o Governo Dilma assumir a pauta que a elegeu em 2014 e fazer um mandato que defenda a classe trabalhadora. Porém, não aceitamos nenhum tipo de golpe e vamos defender o mandato da Presidenta legitimado pelas urnas. Ao mesmo tempo, continuaremos lutando para combater a atual política econômica de viés neoliberal, implementada no segundo mandato da Presidenta Dilma, que penaliza a população brasileira, promove um retrocesso nos direitos trabalhistas, beneficia o capital rentista e sinaliza a entrega das nossas riquezas naturais à rapinagem do capital internacional.

Acreditamos que as crises política, econômica, social e ambiental que vivemos nos dias de hoje, exigem profundas reformas estruturais que assegurem a consolidação e aprofundamento da democracia, promovam a distribuição da renda e riqueza produzida aqui e garantam a soberania do nosso país. 

Por isso, convocamos toda a militância e toda a classe trabalhadora para lutar pela cassação do mandato e prisão de Eduardo Cunha. Entendendo que, somente com as reformas estruturais podemos colocar Brasil em um novo patamar de democracia e justiça social.

Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST

São Paulo, 03 de dezembro de 2015