At nightfall on June 13, choosing the date in memory of the historic protests of 2013, we set up a barricade in the center of the city of Porto Alegre, one block away from the Three Powers Plaza (Government Palace, Legislative Assembly and Palace of Justice). But it was not simply an act of memory, we also responded to the call for the struggle of the indigenous people against the Temporary Framework (1). The Colonial usurpation is a reality that affects our daily lives and we need to fight it.
Aware of the war that domination (corporations, agribusiness, political parties and religious brainwashing) has declared on us, which is confirmed every hour through the genocide of peoples, the devastation of the earth and the cult of money, it is insufficient for us to assume the role of situational analysts. Massive information, within everyone’s reach, makes it clear that it is not for lack of data that some choose, as a way of life, devastation, aggression, genocide, or that they choose to collaborate with those who carry out all this. Thus, the word alone is not enough to combat so many attacks on life.
Few are the victories, that in these lands we can collectively celebrate, the 2013 protests were precisely one of those rare victories that was achieved in the streets, and that was given by the force of violent action, not by the meek parade that the parliamentary leftists desire and propose, nor by the acts of patriotic submission that the right-wingers mentally affected by the hallucination of the red threat perform.
It was chaos, disorder, leaderless vandalism, and the lucid vision of the rejection of impositions, segregations and oppressions, which bent the arm of power. And all the politicians, be they of the left or right, know, with fear, that this is the force that overthrows any tyranny. Some people, collectives and individuals also know this, but we know it with joy and with the search to expand the revolt.
We send, with the heat of this barricade, a complicit gesture to all those who are in struggle against the Temporary Framework, against the legalization of the plundering of lands from indigenous people, making combative blockades as the Mbya Guarani Community of Jaraguá in Sao Paulo.
And may the heat of this barricade also warm the hearts of our anarchist comrades in prison: from Chile to Greece, from Italy to Russia: Alfredo Cóspito, Anna Beniamino, Juan Sorroche, Gabriel Pombo da Silva, Claudio Lavazza, Pola Roupa, Nikos Maziottis, Toby Shone, Boris, Ivan Aloucco, Monica Caballero, Francisco Solar, Joaquin Garcia.
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Text of the pamphlet that flew on the barricade:
We need to be aware that 1988 is just the date that marks a new cycle of exploitations and is not the Time Frame of the history of any people.
Already 2013 is the date that teaches us that fighting does not mean begging for attention from the institutions.
Because all violent action is justified by centuries of domination, our proposal is simple: Attack what attacks us.
Anonymous Society of Friends of the Black Bloc.
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(1) Bill of the Brazilian Parliament that proposes that the recognition of indigenous territories be demarcated by the presence of communities in 1988, the year of the beginning of the Political Constitution of the Brazilian State in force, omitting the processes of invasion, colonization and expulsion that took place since the XVI century against the indigenous people, who had to abandon their territories and dislocate countless times. This bill, which is currently being voted on, also proposes to legalize a series of exploitations on these lands.
Source: Dark Nights