Memerangi Perdagangan Senjata Tanpa Kekerasan

Saat menulis artikel ini, saya mendengar berita tentang sidang pengadilan yang berlangsung selama dua hari terakhir di daerah West Midlands, Inggris. Tahun lalu, lima aktivis memblokir jalan masuk utama ke Excel Docklands di London saat perhelatan pameran dua tahunan dari Peralatan Keamanan dan Persenjataan Internasional (Defence Security Equipment International - DSEI) dilangsungkan.  Para aktivis yang adalah penganut kristiani ini (salah satunya adalah Pendeta), selama aksi protes tanpa kekerasan mereka hanya berlutut sambil berdoa dan menyanyikan himne.  Sementara itu di lokasi pameran DSEI ada ratusan perusahaan yang berlomba-lomba untuk menjual senjata, bahan peledak, dan kendaraan lapis baja kepada banyak perwakilan pemerintah yang menghadiri pameran tersebut. Perbedaan antara kedua kelompok ini amat mencolok. Sayangnya para aktivislah yang kalah dalam pertarungan mereka yang tanpa kekerasan dengan pemerintah, dan mereka ditahan atas dasar pelanggaran karena masuk tanpa izin.

Hari ini, hakim pengadilan Stafford telah memutuskan bahwa para aktivis tidak bersalah.   Memang, kebebasan mereka tampaknya diperoleh karena kesalahan teknis di pihak kepolisian. Instruksi polisi saat memerintahkan agar para aktivis untuk pergi tidak jelas atau kurang terperinci sehingga mereka tidak bisa bertindak sesuai dengan perintah tersebut. Namun, ini tetap suatu kemenangan penting. Para aktivis telah diperbolehkan untuk menyampaikan argumen tentang legalitas taktik mereka di hadapan pengadilan hukum. Seperti biasa, pihak kepolisian terlihat jelas bertindak amat licik atau bodoh. Di NRGLab dan Ana Shell Fund, kami memuji kelima aktivis karena telah memperjuangkan apa yang mereka percayai meski adanya ancaman tiga bulan penjara.

Yang menarik dari pengadilan ini adalah standar ganda serta kemunafikan di Inggris Raya, yang katanya, adalah negara yang menjunjung "kebebasan dan keadilan".  Salah satu argumen yang digunakan oleh pembela berkisar pada insiden di pameran DSEI tahun 2013 karena ada dua perusahaan yang dikeluarkan dari pameran. Hal itu terjadi karena kedua perusahaan tersebut mempromosikan penjualan senjata yang dianggap ilegal dalam hukum Inggris. Magforce Internasional dari Prancis serta Tianjin Myway dari Cina dikeluarkan dari DSEI karena menjual proyektil listrik pengejut, tongkat pengejut, dan borgol kaki dengan pemberat. DSEI baru mengambil tindakan setelah Caroline Lucas, seorang anggota parlemen mengajukan pertanyaan ke parlemen sehubungan dengan adanya desas-desus akan penjualan senjata tersebut di pameran.

Sayangnya, DSEI bersikap biasa-biasa saja sehubungan dengan aksi ilegal dari kedua perusahaan dan mereka yang terlibat dalam pameran senjata tersebut juga tidak ada yang didakwa. Padahal kejahatan yang dilakukan oleh perusahaan-perusahaan yang menjual tongkat pengejut dan rudal kejut jauh lebih besar dari pada kelima orang yang dengan tenang berlutut di jalan, namun justru kelima orang inilah yang malah didakwa oleh negara dan kepolisian. Kebebasan mereka pun hanya terjadi karena kesalahan teknis. Jika kepolisian melakukan tugas mereka dengan baik, mungkin kelima aktivis inilah yang akan berada di penjara malam ini sementara Magforce dan Myway dengan bebas melanjutkan bisnis mereka – bisnis yang didasarkan pada penindasan dan kekerasan terhadap mereka yang direbut haknya dan miskin.

Meski kisah ini berlokasi di Inggris, apa yang terjadi tidak hanya terjadi di Inggris. Prioritas negara amat jelas.  Jika Anda berupaya membela yang lemah, yang tidak punya apa-apa, yang rumahnya hancur karena rudal, yang kehidupannya direnggut oleh pistol, dan yang kebebasannya dibelenggu dengan borgol kaki dengan pemberat, Anda kemungkinan besar adalah penjahat. Jika Anda berkontribusi pada situasi di atas dengan membuat borgol kaki, rudal, pistol dan senjata penyiksa - hal itu tidak apa-apa, Anda bebas melanjutkan bisnis tersebut asalkan Anda mendatangkan keuntungan bagi para politikus dan pemangku kepentingan. Aktivis yang melakukan protes tanpa kekerasan adalah kelompok berbahaya sementara perusahaan yang keuntungannya berasal dari kekerasan adalah warga negara teladan. Ideologi terbalik ini dianut dalam kebudayaan neoliberal global dewasa ini. Kita semua hendaknya meniru kelima aktivis di atas dan bertindak menentang hal ini.

Diterjemahkan dari Bahasa Inggris, artikel asli di publikasikan tanggal di 25.02.14: http://anashell.blogspot.com/2014/02/fighting-arms-trade-with-non-violence.html

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Fighting for the Union in Tennessee

A few weeks back, a Volkswagen manufacturing plant in Tennessee had a vote on whether to affiliate with a union. A fairly standard procedure, which happens in industrial workplaces across the world on a regular basis, right? The vote narrowly fell, and the shop will remain non-unionized, at least for now. However, despite the seeming ordinariness of this occurrence, the vote has become a much bigger talking point across America.

Republican senators have been accused of influencing the vote by essentially threatening the workers that they would be damaging the entire state of Tennessee and taking away potential jobs from friends and family members. The senators argued that if Volkswagen unionized, it would mean other employers would avoid Tennessee when making decision about where to locate manufacturing plants – they would move to a non-union state instead (as many of the other southern and western states continue to be). More perniciously, they also argued that if the workers were to unionize, the state government would no longer provide subsidies to Volkswagen to encourage them to locate their production facilities in Tennessee – essentially trying to force their prophecy to come true by actively pushing VW to locate elsewhere.

Of course, anti-union situations like this remain widespread in the US. German companies like Volkswagen actually have quite a strong culture of unionization, at least domestically, as there is clearly a much stronger belief in cooperation, mutual benefit, and the need to work together as a society in Germany. In the US, however, anti-union ideology abounds, and many companies will indeed threaten to leave areas if unions are formed – with no repercussions from politicians or the government.

Walmart and McDonalds are both staunchly anti-union, with the former keeping a very close eye on employees and moving into action at the first sign of labor organization – a selection of anti-union talking points given to store management were recently leaked. And since the birth of NAFTA in 1994, it has been increasingly easy for companies to simply uproot their manufacturing processes to just south of the Mexican border, where wages are cheaper and the labor is more easily exploitable due to high levels of poverty.

Unions may have their faults, but they have long been the traditional way in which the working class and the poor have demanded and won their human rights and freedoms from the exploitative owners of the capitalist class. Consequently, it’s fairly understandable that ultra-capitalist corporations like Walmart want to destroy them. Politicians, however, should be standing up for the people they represent, rather than siding with the corporate anti-union line, like the Republicans in Tennessee have. Unfortunately, today’s politicians seem to be more concerned with money and their corporate friends than with helping the poor and the working class – and it’s time the working class of the southern states started to realize that and vote differently.

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A City Divided

In my previous blog I talked about the problems in Thailand, and how they were representative of a divided society. Events are really still unfolding over there, and it will be some time before Thai society approaches something that we could call normality. But the problem of a divided society is not exclusive to Thailand  - in fact, I would argue that it is becoming more and more prevalent around the world, and even in seemingly peaceful places people are being convinced to fight among themselves rather than working together in solidarity.

Of course, we have seen other obvious examples over the past two months in places like Ukraine, where there has been a clear division over whether to move closer to the European Union or to Russia. But we can see the same thing on a less dramatic scale even in a cosmopolitan, global city like Toronto. Toronto is usually famous for nothing more than the CN Tower and that most people think it's the capital of Canada. But over the last six months, Toronto has become notorious for its Mayor Rob Ford.

Ford is now famous for his use of crack cocaine and his admission that he is often found in 'drunken stupors'. But while that's hardly behaviour you'd expect from a mayor, it's his policies which bother me more. Ford was elected after a campaign in which he constructed an interesting worldview which essentially set the people of Toronto at war against each other. He regularly positions every citizen of Toronto as being in one of two groups – motorists versus cyclists and pedestrians; people who enjoy the Lake Ontario waterfront versus people who want to see it developed for jobs; people who go to the famous Canadian company Tim Horton's for their morning coffee versus people who stop off at an independent coffee shop; and, most regularly, people who live downtown versus people who live in the suburbs, where the majority of his voters come from.

Ford continually plays off an idea of cultural difference. He tells his supporters: the people who live downtown are different from you, they want different things, they live different lives, and they want to take money away from you and use it for themselves. This is, of course, ridiculous – the people who live in the suburbs use the downtown area for their jobs, their transport, their entertainment options, and so on. Essentially, everyone in Toronto uses the downtown area in some way, and should see that the diversity of people who live and work there is its great strength. But unfortunately, while Ford's claims are incorrect, they are popular – even now, after all the cocaine scandals, Ford has a popularity rating of 40% and may win re-election from the people he has convinced.

In reality, the people of Toronto, just like those of Thailand, need to realize that they have more in common than they have in difference, and more that brings them together than tears them apart. The people of Toronto all want the same things that the rest of us want – safety, clean air, good schools, a good health care system – and they need to work together as one to make that happen, rather than buying into divisive myths. The same goes for the rest of us, wherever we are – rather than focusing on the people around us who we perceive as different, we should begin to work together to build a better life for all of us – regardless of what the elite politicians are telling us.

Truly yours,
Ana Shell

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捕获化石燃料的未来

在采掘和化石燃料工业领域，碳收集及储存（CCS）技术在几年前给人们带来了极大的希望。其目的非常简单，而且在它的名称中已经得到了很好的体现——收集其他会造成污染的发电厂释放的碳，将其储存在多孔岩地表之下。尽管早在2009年举行的哥本哈根联合国气候变化大会上，人们就围绕CCS进行了诸多讨论，但是，CCS依然被冷藏了好几年——最开始是因为，当时全世界都在尽量使用可再生能源，而不是化石燃料，而最近，则是因为人们开始痴迷于更难的化石燃料采掘新形式，比如石油砂和压裂天然气。不过，CCS可能将重回轨道——英国《卫报》最近发表的一篇报道称，到2030年，仅算英国的CCS产业，其价值就将高达350亿英镑。由此我们可以推断出，在美国和中国等面积更大的国家，以及拥有类似碳排放水平、或者碳排放水平正在增长的国家，如德国、日本、加拿大和澳大利亚，所涉及到的金额绝对是天文数字。

乍一看，CCS的确是个相当不错的主意。如果我们有了捕捉碳排放并将其储存在安全之所的技术，让它远离大气，阻止其破坏大气，为什么不去做呢？归根结底，是因为我们不能立即从化石燃料完全转向可再生能源经济，因此，我们不得不在此期间做些事情，应对当前的问题，对吧？不幸的是，一系列问题也随之而来——包括实际操作的问题和理论上的问题。在实际操作方面， CCS并没有真正地消除碳排放，而只是把它们埋了起来——眼不见，心不烦。一次未预见到的泄漏、地震等自然灾害、因某种原因人们掘开了土地——任何一件事都能轻易地让碳重回大气，进而彻底抹去CCS在短时间内可能提供的任何益处。

但更重要的可能还是理论上的问题，CCS以自身错误的思维方式为基础，向我们提供的解决未来世纪所面临问题的方式。从本质上来说，CCS不仅仅是一种在我们向可再生能源经济转变期间，解决因化石燃料而起、不可避免的问题的方式。CCS是现有化石燃料体系的支柱，目的在于避免人们转向可再生能源。一旦碳被埋藏在底下，政客们就将宣称，问题已得到解决，因此，也就没有必要再去帮助开发新的高效能源或可再生能源技术了——当然，这样也就帮助了他们在化石燃料产业的朋友和投资人。

化石燃料产业将继续享受特权，而与燃料采掘相关的其他问题都将被忽略。压裂施工所在社区面临的破坏；石油砂开发对加拿大第一民族造成的影响；石油顶峰将带来的问题；以掠夺资源为名在中东持续进行的战争——所有这些都将被推在一边，在持续盈利的名义下被忽略，只要CCS能让我们在表面上将石油、天然气和煤变得“环保”。这将是极大的耻辱——时至今日，化石燃料可能是地球上最具破坏力的物质。在此情况下，至关重要的是，确保我们在NRGLab为开发高效的替代能源所做的工作，不会因维持现有有害的经济现状而被人们忽略。

从英文版翻译而来。

原文于2月16, http://anashell.blogspot.com/2014/02/capturing-future-for-fossil-fuels.html

[ 采掘工业领域, 化石燃料工业领域, 碳收集及储存, CCS, 合国气候变化大会, nrglab ]

Rekah Hidrolik (fracking) - Jalan Menuju Kehancuran

Laporan terbaru dari AS mengatakan bahwa kontaminasi air akibat teknik pengeboran energi model baru yang dikenal dengan nama 'rekah hidrolik' atau fracking mungkin sudah biasa terjadi daripada yang diperkirakan sebelumnya. Ada laporan pengaduan mengenai kontaminasi air terjadi di Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Texas, dan Ohio.  Negara bagian yang mempunyai laporan pengaduan paling mendetail yaitu Texas (hal ini mungkin mengejutkan, mengingat citra Pennysilvania yang jauh lebih liberal), mempunyai lebih dari 2.000 laporan penganduan tentang sumur-sumur minyak dan gas, meskipun belum ada kasus kontaminasi air yang telah dikonfirmasi.  Sedangkan Pennsylvania mencatat lebih dari 100 kasus kontaminasi air yang telah terkonfirmasi yang berasal dari industri minyak dan gas, termasuk dari sumur-sumur rekah hidrolik.

Yang pertama kali membuat kesadaran masyarakat awam tentang bahaya fracking atau rekah hidrolik adalah film dokumenter Gasland, yang memperlihatkan bahwa orang dapat menyetel keran air mereka menjadi api hanya dengan menyalakan pemantik rokok saja.  Kegiatan rekah hidrolik itu artinya memompa ratusan ribu galon air dan unsur-unsur kimiawi ke permukaan bumi sebagai upaya untuk memutus dan membebaskan gas alam yang terperangkap di dalam batuan serpih, sehingga rekah hidrolik ini mempunyai risiko bawaan, yaitu terjadinya kontaminasi silang dengan air tanah di lokasi sekitarnya - dan komposisi bahan-bahan kimia yang sebenarnya dipakai dalam cairan rekah hidrolik ini tetap menjadi rahasia yang ditutup rapat.

Jadi, apakah temuan ini akan menghentikan, atau paling tidak memperlambat ledakan kegiatan rekah hidrolik yang telah menyebar di AS selama beberapa tahun belakangan ini, dan yang baru saja dimulai di negara lain seperti Inggris? Meskipun ada beberapa kasus pemilik rumah yang pasokan airnya jelas-jelas terkontaminasi mendapatkan kompensasi besar, namun dengan meningkatnya skala kegiatan operasional rekah hidrolik ini, sepertinya tidak mungkin ada perusahaan energi yang akan kolaps. Karena rekah hidrolik memberikan akses ke cadangan gas alam onshore yang tetap murah, sehingga memungkinkan arus ekonomi bahan bakar fosil terus berlanjut - peluang seperti ini tentu saja tidak mungkin dilewatkan begitu saja oleh pemerintah dan dunia bisnis, karena beralih ke ekonomi energi ramah lingkungan yang berdasarkan sumber energi terbarukan hanya akan menimbulkan ancaman bagi mereka yang mendapatkan kekuasaan dan keuntungan dari status quo.

Selain itu, kemungkinan mayoritas sumur-sumur rekah hidrolik akan dibor di daerah-daerah pedesaan dan tempat bermukim para warga kelas pekerja di pinggiran kota.  Sudah barang tentu mayoritas penduduk yang akan terkena dampak dari infrastruktur ini adalah mereka yang mempunyai sebidang tanah kecil, sedikit koneksi, dan pada dasarnya tidak mampu berbuat apa-apa.  Para pemilik tanah yang kaya mempunyai uang mereka untuk mempertahankan diri dari sumur-sumur rekah hidrolik, sementara si miskin harus rela melihat lahan dan pemandangan mereka dihancurkan, kesehatan mereka direnggut, semua atas nama keuntungan perusahaan.

Dorongan terus-menerus untuk mendapatkan bahan bakar fosil tentu saja merupakan kebodohan terbesar dalam era kita.  Ada begitu banyak pontensi alternatif energi lainnya di luar sana - bahkan beberapa di antaranya dikembangkan oleh NRGLab - yang seharusnya mendapatkan dukungan pemerintah dan dana publik yang jauh lebih baik dibandingkan  yang diterima oleh industri energy seperti rekah hidrolik.  Melalui penggunaan teknologi yang bijaksana, kita bisa mengurangi tagihan energi bulanan kita, mengangkat orang keluar dari jurang kemiskinan energi, dan melindungi lingkungan kita - daripada mengontaminasikan air kita dan menghancurkan kesehatan demi mengejar beberapa tahun yang dimiliki dari pilihan bahan bakar fosil.  Mudah-mudahan kesadaran publik akan bahaya rekah hidrolok akan menjadi langkah awal perubahan nyata dalam beberapa tahun mendatang.

Diterjemahkan dari Bahasa Inggris, artikel asli di publikasikan tanggal di 23.01.14: 

http://anashell.blogspot.com/2014/01/fracking-our-way-to-disaster.html

[ Rekah Hidrolik, pengeboran energi, sumur-sumur minyak, kontaminasi air, film dokumenter Gasland, pasokan airnya, gas alam onshore, NRGLab ]

Fighting the arms trade with non-violence

As I write this, news is just coming in from the West Midlands area of England about an important, but rather under-the-radar trial that has been taking place for the past two days. Last year, five activists blockaded the main entrance to the Excel Docklands in London during the biennial Defence Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair. The activists are all Christians (one of them a minister), and they acted completely non-violently at all times, simply kneeling down in prayer and singing hymns. Meanwhile, inside the DSEI, hundreds of companies were competing to sell weapons, explosives, armoured vehicles and more to the many government representatives who attend. The difference between the two groups couldn’t be more clear, and yet it was the activists who came off worse in this particular battle between non-violence and the state – they were arrested and charged with aggravated trespass.

Today, they have been declared ‘not guilty’ by the judge at Stafford magistrates court. Admittedly, they appear to have only been let free on a technicality – police instructions for them to leave were not clear or detailed enough, so they couldn’t have been expected to fully comply – but this is still a victory of sorts. The activists were allowed to put forward their argument about the legitimacy of their tactics in a court of law, and the police – as ever – appear either duplicitous or foolish. At NRGLab and the Ana Shell Fund we applaud the five for standing up for their beliefs and risking up to three months in jail to make their point.

But what really stands out about this trial is the double standards and hypocrisy of justice in supposedly ‘free and fair’ countries like the UK. One of the defendants’ arguments hinged around an interesting side event at the 2013 DSEI, in which two companies were expelled from the convention. They were expelled because they were promoting the sale of weapons which are illegal under British law. The French company Magforce International and the Chinese firm Tianjin Myway were kicked out of DSEI for selling electric shock projectiles, stun batons, and weighted leg cuffs. DSEI only took action after the Green Member of Parliament Caroline Lucas raised a question in the British parliament about rumours that these companies were selling such items at the fair.

Yet despite the illegal actions of the two companies, and the relaxed initial response of DSEI, nobody involved with the arms fair was charged with anything. The crimes of those companies that peddle stun batons and shock missiles seems far greater than that of five calm and studious people kneeling down in the road outside, and yet it is only the latter who feel the force of the state and its police come down on them. Even now, as mentioned above, they are only free because of a technicality. If the police had been better at their jobs, the peaceful activists might well be in jail this evening while Magforce and Myway continue to go about their business – a business which is based on oppression and violence against the disenfranchised and poor.

The priorities of the state are clear – and this is not just the British state, although that happens to be where this story is set. If you try to defend the helpless, those who have nothing, those whose homes are being destroyed by missiles, whose lives are being taken by guns, and whose freedom is being undermined through weighted leg cuffs and the like, you are potentially a criminal. If you contribute to that very situation – if you make the leg cuffs, the missiles, the guns, the weapons of torture – you’re fine, free to carry on as you please, as long as you keep bringing in the profit for the politicians and shareholders. Non-violent protestors are dangerous, while companies whose entire business model is built on violence are upstanding citizens. This backwards ideology is at the very heart of our globalized, neoliberal culture today, and we should all be working like those five activists to stand against it.

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化学谷？还是死亡谷？

在过去的两个月，加拿大和美国庆祝了感恩节和哥伦布日的到来。一直以来，这两个节日都被用于推动对北美殖民进行不加批判的叙述。但是，近几年，人们开始借此类机会，用稍微更具怀疑性的态度来思考相关情况，并承认要创立这些国家，就有必要拿走印第安人和第一民族（加拿大原住民）的土地。

然而，往往较少为人所研究的是，直到今天，这种掠夺仍以各种方式在继续，并且已经随着我们整个的全球化社会体制传播到了世界各地。我们的经济体制每天都在从几乎一无所有的人手上夺走资源，然后将它们重新分配给已经拥有很多的人——通过税收、监狱、薪水少得可怜的工作、企业补贴等方式。绝大多数的民众和国家正在失去资源，与此同时，只有很少一部分精英赚得盆满钵满。

这种情况给某些群体带来的不利影响尤为严重——在新闻报道中，美国黑人等少数族裔被关进监狱的可能性要大得多；发展中国家的妇女更可能在血汗工厂和电子工厂中工作，只为赚取每小时几毛钱的薪水。然而，承受着最大痛苦的仍然是该体制最初的牺牲者，即美国的印第安人和加拿大的第一民族。

最近，当我看到加拿大安大略省南部被称为“化学谷”的报道时，这一事实攫住了我的注意力。这是一处工业聚居带，以萨尼亚镇为中心，紧靠美国底特律北部的边境。萨尼亚镇周围分布着六十多家石油化工厂和炼油厂，我们可以毫无意外地得知当地的环境是有毒的。在该镇的中心呢？那是第一民族的专用地。有一片第一民族的墓地就紧靠着一家化工厂，死者安息在一小片树林中，而在树林的周围，便是北美洲的定居者在夺走该区土地后，对土地加以利用的部分情况。

他们所遭受的不仅仅是土地被夺走、开发、污染，同时受到损害的还有他们的健康和在经济方面的机会。该区的出生率变得越来越奇怪，新生儿中67%都是女孩，只有33%是男孩。显而易见，这种异常高的性别比例将对未来的社区关系产生影响。然而，该区的第一民

族无力改变现状，只得屈从于命运。当问及他们所面临的情况时，一位居民说道“每天都会看到这些设施，这不是什么大不了的事儿，我们已经非常习惯被虐待了……每天都去思考这些实在是太难了”。

显然，这种情况涉及到了环境的不公正，为了现代资本主义社会的利益，加拿大原住民的土地在贬值、退化、被破坏。第一民族已经失去了他们的土地、生计、自力更生的能力，甚至于还失去了他们的未来。这一切都是为了什么呢？为了一个牺牲多数人、让少数人获益的工业消费社会。然而，在NRGLab 和 Ana Shell Fund，我们希望看到截然不同的情况——我们希望能看到环境公正的实现，各群体的权利都能得到同样的尊重。我们的目标是找到创新的解决方案，解决这类情况抛出的问题——如果您有能力、有热情助我们一臂之力，就请赶快联系我们吧。

从英文版翻译而来。

原文于 1月8, http://anashell.blogspot.com/2014/01/chemical-valley-or-death-valley.html

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