Acts of nature, social effects . Chile was hit once again by an apocalyptic earthquake, as were the earthquakes of 1938, 1960 and 1985. With Swiss precision, every 25 years, the disaster occurs. The earthquake of 27 February was one of the strongest in recorded history: 8.8 Richter.
account The death toll is between 500 and 800 and there are those who say that a final figure would be desirable around 2,000 victims. Currently, an estimated two million people homeless, literally in the middle of a road. Destroyed two entire cities and regions (including Maule and Bio-Bio) annihilated.
As for the earthquake in Haiti, or in the Abruzzo, or even for Hurricane Katrina, which struck in 2005, the city of New Orleans, we are not only opposite to the 'irrepressible vehemence and disastrous forces of nature. "
contemporary era, with a metropolitan population and worldwide has exceeded the rural one, with mega-cities in which they amassed millions of people, with dormitory suburbs and slums, with economic and social organization which determines aspect of our lives - and then also the places where we live - nothing can happen without you now have a key role in the way it is organized that is affected.
When Hurricane Katrina approached the coast of Louisiana, in the city of New Orleans were only those who had no means of escape, let alone a room in a hotel hundreds of miles away rented throughout the year because of these eventualities, like many rich or wealthy citizens of that city can afford to have.
When buildings and hospitals collapsed like houses of cards Aquila also because it was built with sand, can you really think that there are responsibilities in those buildings who built them, planned to speculation and thinking profit?
When an earthquake hits a city like Port-au-Prince, where 80% of the population is under the indices of extreme poverty and destitution brings thousands of people live in slums, the favelas, you can not really think that the 200 thousand deaths in Haiti are to be attributed to "natural causes"?
Those that are described only as "natural disasters" can not be, at least not primarily, for the obvious reason that these events are involved in specific contexts, producing effects that have, in all respects, a social nature .
For this reason we speak of social catastrophes, because colpiscono un mondo che è già, in se stesso, una catastrofe, “ perché non sono le case dei capitalisti quelle che si afflosciano e crollano, non sono le famiglie dei borghesi quelle che rimangono senza i rifornimenti di prima necessità e non sono nemmeno i nostri padroni quelli che rimangono isolati e senza possibilità di muoversi in città di merda dove il trasporto pubblico svolge una funzione disciplinante di mero trasporto di mercanzia umana ” (1).
Per questo sosteniamo che l’urbanismo, l’economia, neppure in questi casi sono innocenti. Il capitalismo è la catastrofe. Il capitalismo è la barbarie.
emergency management.
"trucks, bulldozers, gutted houses. Tendopoli (...).
They managed to get only yesterday that the civil protection could not
barged into the curtains suddenly, in the middle of the night to check (...).
Warning Internet in tents. not allowed to distribute leaflets in the fields. (...) The city is completely militarized (...), all areas above the town and the woods are full military. (...) To enter the tent cities must undergo a series of raids humiliating, third degree disconcerting (...) The tents are stuffed with drugs. The military have taken on anything, heroin, ecstasy, cannabis, everything. And 'as if they wanted to isolate them from everything and everyone (...) it is important that the outside does not leak out anything. "
(from" I saw the Eagle ", Andrea Gattinoni) (2)
The lies of the military and the Chilean President Bachelet (who denied the danger just as this Tsunami already arrived on the coast) is the same infantile desire, denial of any individual initiative that we Aquila saw in camp management.
When the civil and social rules that the state shows that jump - and while it helps, but is repressed - is the desire to avoid self-organization of people, even the most primitive.
hour after the earthquake Radio Bio-Bio broadcast official information dell'ONEMI (National Bureau of Emergency) of this nature: "Earthquake of 8.5 degrees, 95 miles northeast of Concepcion. We accept no risk of tsunami
At six in the morning (two hours after the earthquake) the tsunami struck the islands of Juan Fernandez.
The coastal area near Concepcion was overwhelmed by waves of between three and twenty meters a few minutes after the earthquake. Can not feel the ribs in this case, duty would have been expected to warn the inhabitants of the island of Juan Fernandez - who could not have felt the earthquake - the arrival of a wave of three meters, but at 500 miles an hour.
While New Orleans was submerged by water and mud, with hundreds of deaths and a population that had lost everything, the government suspended the sending of relief to stop the "pillage", giving the military soon after the back from Iraq management of public order, "Who plunders the supermarkets will be executed on the spot."
at this time in Chile, while rising to 2 million displaced persons, while those who lost everything trying to survive by opening the doors of supermarkets, pharmacies, department stores and taking what they need, the State responds with police, the army sent to stop looting and protect private property, liberal democracy responds with a curfew in some areas has reached 18 hours a day over 24, with the ban on the streets persons who no longer have another place to stay.
Just as in New Orleans and Port-au-Prince as the state soon followed - or not coming at all - aid, are easily mobilized thousands of soldiers to enforce the martial law (enacted in the two regions most affected by the Chilean earthquake ). While in Concepcion (Biobar) does not reach the water for the thirsty mouths, no problem filling the tanks of tank-riot water cannons, used against looters
The prisoners (including many Mapuche prisoners) who have decided not to remain in Chilean jails die collapsing in on themselves, they are sought and sometimes executed in the street. Hundreds are processed after riots, ninety prisoners captured after the flight and four dead ones in the crossfire while there's news of the first murder victims for failing to meet curfew.
These are also the Humanitarian Aid of the Chilean Government.
The truth, the Italian government has shown the Eagle, the U.S. in New Orleans, the UN humanitarian operation in Haiti, is that the soldiers always come first, batons and machine guns first bread and water: social order and maintaining it is always for the state, more important than the lives of his subjects.
Autorganizzazione e espropriazione.
“ Chiedo per cortesia ai media di non parlare più dei saccheggi, ne di riprenderli in diretta, perché quando ne parlano la gente segue l’esempio e va in cerca di luoghi da saccheggiare. ”
(Hols Paulmanm, multimiliardario, padrone di catene di supermercati cileni)
Gli aquilani che qualche giorno fa si sono decisi a violare la zona rossa per ripulirla dalle macerie, ci insegnano che la pazienza ha un limite.
I saccheggiatori cileni, going directly to recover what they need to survive, stealing those goods themselves, as proletarians, have produced, we show that the limit can be overcome.
This limit lies precisely nell'inconciliabilità between people's needs and demands of the state, in emergency management sees only an opportunity to experiment with new and extreme techniques for maintaining order and discipline in the reconstruction only new revenues to be shared.
As desperation grows, while the owners are organizing to protect their private property with as many rounds private, mentre il coprifuoco e i militari riescono solo ad arginare ma non a fermare la banale ma evidentemente intollerabile volontà di vivere dei poveri, la stampa cilena costruisce la solita immagine dello sciacallo, del criminale privo di scrupoli, disposto a far profitto sulla tragedia altrui.
Non potendo screditare e mistificare totalmente i saccheggi messi in atto da fasce vastissime di disperati, questi sciacalli dell’informazione si prodigano nella costruzione di un nuovo steccato morale, distinguendo tra “saccheggiatori buoni” (chi ruba il pane) e “saccheggiatori cattivi” (chi ruba la lavatrice o un plasma). Allo stesso modo, per giustificarne la repressione generalizzata create the evil ghost of armed gangs, calling the toll to cross certain areas or steal from the rubble of the districts.
In describing what is certainly part of reality after the earthquake, or war between the poor and the emergence of new forms of community Mafia forget to tell the residents of the neighborhoods attacked by these gangs have , also, (auto) organized (in some cases by arming) to defend themselves, who often forget to write the result of looting supplies the fields where they have fled the earthquake and that these "criminals," the loot they are doing common use.
What is evident is that the solidarity among the existing operators and attendants - employers, government, journalists -, compact in defense of order and property, is an equally strong solidarity among the oppressed, between the poor, among the disadvantaged.
The recent past has highlighted how we are increasingly faced with social emergencies that become de facto permanent state of emergency : military contingents, the monopoly of humanitarian organizations, the red areas - or curfews - the establishment of martial law (3) or the de facto suspension del Diritto democratico (5), e il business della ricostruzione rappresentano il solo modo con cui l’emergenza viene gestita.
Dal futuro non possiamo che aspettarci una sempre crescente creazione di emergenze da gestire e, gli alpini nelle strade italiane sono lì per ricordarcelo, un sempre più confuso e labile confine tra stato d’emergenza (o di guerra) e “normalità”. Le dichiarazioni dei vertici militari occidentali non fanno che confermare tali aspettative (5).
Quello che insegnano i fatti cileni è che non vi sono teorie più o meno rivoluzionarie che possano essere indicate a chi si trova nel pieno della tempesta social, especially since in theory often - that Chile is just the latest case - is largely exceeded by the actual practices of the exploited.
These practices - self-organization, the expropriation of the lords of this world, direct action, self-defense (we repeat: even armed) in front of a military occupation and the rise of new forms of primitive capitalism (the mafia), the practical solidarity among the oppressed - are what we can learn and recognize how only possible escape routes from the catastrophe that is the social organization in which we live, because rappresentano la negazione di questo mondo, il suo rifiuto.
E’ di questo che parlano, coi fatti, tra le macerie, le strade cilene.
E’ questo che urlano, con determinazione e coraggio, gli uomini e le donne di Concepcion.
Il capitalismo è la catastrofe. Il capitalismo è la barbarie.
internazionalisti solidali
Note:
(1) Da "A convertir en ruinas y escombros la sociedad de clases", www.hommodolars.org. Trad. italiana su: http://liguria.indymedia.org/node/5153
(2) "I saw the Eagle. Letter to my wife," http://abruzzo.indymedia.org/article/6521
(3) In New Orleans, Chile, Haiti.
(4) In the Eagle, but also in banlieues of Paris during the riots of 2005.
(5) See the NATO document "Urban Operations in the Year 2020," but also " The war of the future will be played in the streets, sewers, high-rise, sprawling and anarchic in residential areas which are of cities falling planet. Our recent military history is dotted with city names - Tuzla, Mogadishu, Los Angeles, Beirut, Panama, Hue, Saigon, Santo Domingo - but all these fights have been only a prologue: the real drama is yet to come . "(Major Ralph Peters of the Army War College, 1996).
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