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For the moment it’s mostly some articles I wrote. I plan on writing about ecology, tech, society, traveling, politics and fiction. If you like hastags, #SolarPunk, #VanLife, #DIY, #dWeb…
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I’m writing in French and English, maybe even in Esperanto one day !
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Most of the articles and general structure of the blog’s source is found in my git server ! Feel free to correct things or propose articles and such !
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I’m a student in his twenties. I’m trying to figure out life. If you have any thing to say to me, or would just like to tchat, hit me up at this email !
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This projet was made during my studies; the goal was to impliment a Ant Colony path finding program in Java. You can find in on my git : https://git.n07070.xyz/n07070/YAACO
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Well, if you don’t know what the fediverse is, it’s… well, it’s complicated. At the origin, it’s a protocol that makes federation between websites possible. As of there, things started getting out of hand when people started making things with it. The W3C doesn’t recommend that !
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You see, people where wondering how to do things the right way. It’s not the first time, but this new protocol is supposed to bring an end to the GAFAM. By making it possible for two different websites to communicate and exchange information in real-time, there was little reason for a social network, for example, to exist under only one URL.
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Ho ho ho, this month the link stack is short. I didn’t have much time to read, and most importantly I’m finishing my studies for the year, which means I have examens to care about. Pfff… Anyway, I really recommend reading the Chinese Burner article and the Healing power of gardens. I loved thoses articles.
Each year, the great festival of Burning Man takes place in the desert, in the so-called USA. Each year, people from all around the worl come to celebrate a lifestyle of freedom, drugs, sex and new or alternative ways of thinking. Also, they burn stuff. And recently, chineses people have started to come to Burning man. For most of them, they work in startups and are rich. This article is a tale of the clash of cultures and how the OG burners and the Chineses newbies lived together. Also, the picture of the chineses tents seem to come straight out of a sci-fi story.
We’re not gonna solve the problems of tech with more tech. And, each tech we add to our lives has consequences that we don’t see right away. But already today, we are starting to ask ourselves why some people feel so lonely in front of a portal to the whole world. This article does a comparison between the heroïne crisis and the tech influcence in our life.
When you wonder through a garden, you feel the daily stress fade away. Your mind opens to more peaceful thoughts, and for some people it even has a direct consequence on there well-being. This article is written by a doctor who helps neuroatypical people, and they talk about the way gardens heal, some time more than medication, people with neurological problems.
I’ve never seen WPA3 in the wild, but even before that, it’s already borked ! What a nice time to live. I hope the people working in infosec have good hearts. In practice, it won’t really have an effect on your router, cause theses attacks are non-trivial and can be patched.
When you’re 5 years old, does having an instagram acccount, that makes your parents millions, is work ?
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Ce mois-ci, beaucoup d’analyse politique de l’actualité. En même temps, vu le climat politique en France en ce moment, c’est normal on va dire. Quelques liens aussi sur la technologie, et notamment une nouvelle qui est passée presque inapercue, à propos des écrans de pub dans le métro. Y’a pas grand choses, mais les partiels m’appellent.
Vous savez, cette nouvelle économie dite ‘circulaire’ qui serait censé réduire la consommation tout en permettant d’être plus respectueux de la nature, etc… hé bah c’est pas ouf en vrai. Déjà, Uber, à la base c’était partager sa caisse et arrondir ses fins de mois. Vinted, à la base, c’était vider ses placards. En vrai, c’est plutot permettre aux accro à la consommation de vêtement de revendre leurs achats. Pareil avec Too Good To Go, à la base c’est manger ce que les restaurant ont pas vendu ( même si ça devrait être gratuit ! ), mais maintenant c’est plus une promo éternelle dans les restaurant etc..
After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Cuban couldn’t even have an industrial agriculture. So, after a special periode, out of necessity, most of the food is now grown on a small scale. Havana grows 90% of it’s own food.
This shit is so fucked up on so many levels. It’s the perfect cyber-dystopian control system. It’s been like that for years, and even considering cutural differences that might make it hard for me to understand the more complexe social aspects, as one woman said in the article : it’s bullshit.
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Unfortunately public discourse has not advanced far beyond revelations of celebrity offenders and surface-level slogans as opposed to a constructive conversation about root causes, the complexities of consent, and a culture that seems to condone male sexual violence. The occasional public shaming might be cathartic but it is only a first step towards a solution. And in an environment with zero tolerance for dissent, men feel alienated from the conversation and so destructive male attitudes retreat to silence instead of being challenged.”
“To most people, what you learn during a CS degree doesn’t help much in your day to day job. That being said, you sometimes run in a problem which could have been an example used by a CS professor when introducing some core notions. This is one such instance, in regard to data structures.”
“A Rust CLI that provides a variety of ways to check the “health” of a given KeePass database, including checking passwords against the Have I Been Pwned password list.”
“I was so used to seeing death that I didn’t know how it’d feel to see something grow,” Trent said. “To see plants grow full of life, from something I control, it’s probably the best feeling in the world.”
Warning : this article talks a lot about mental trauma, death, traumatic behiavor, and more horrible things you might experience while browsing the internet.
“I wanted to share some things that I learned from growing native plants in my yard. This will be about what I learned about nature and some discoveries about how we might rethink the idea of the suburban yard from an alternate land management perspective.”
“[···] la journaliste d’un quotidien proche du patronat, L’Opinion, révèle sur un plateau de télévision à quel point la bourrasque a soufflé fort : « Tous les grands groupes vont distribuer des primes, parce qu’ils ont vraiment eu peur à un moment d’avoir leurs têtes sur des piques. Ah oui, les grandes entreprises, quand il y avait le samedi terrible, là, avec toutes les dégradations, ils avaient appelé le patron du Medef [Mouvement des entreprises de France], Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, en lui disant : “Tu lâches tout ! Tu lâches tout, parce que sinon…” Ils se sentaient menacés, physiquement. »”
Le saviez-vous ? Les grues cendrées migrent en automne et au printemps, et traversent de fait la France en ce moment. La LPO observe ces déplacements et les cartographies, pour que vous sachiez quand lever le nez et être alerte pour les protéger si elles passent dans nos régions.
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Finding and sharing links is what made the success of the internet. But recently, I’ve been finding it harder to find such links, and as I am not on most social media, sharing it is even harder. When you spend your time scrolling a timeline or another, you won’t see most of what your friends are sharing. I’ll try to make a post like this one at the end of each month with the cool links I found on the internet. They might be article, projects I want to share and more. I you have any cool links to share, feel free to send them over to me via email or Mastodon
Prismo is a soon federated link-sharing plateform. It works very much like HackerNews or JournalDuHacker, but can exchange links with otherplateform. Think a federated reddit, maybe ?
Work is everywhere, but it’s not supposed to be like that. They are other ways to see our lives in this world, even if it means changing a few things in our society. A lot of questions are raised : does post work mean less money ? Less luxury ? Or more ? Do we even know how to live without work ? The article is quite long, but goes in depth with a lot of references.
More and more women are using apps to track there health data, and menstruation. But theses apps are also using this data to present ads, or sell products. What consequences does it have ? How do women think of it ?
“Assuming that one car has a surface area of about 5 square meter there are circa 35 square kilometre of sheet metal driving around. That’s enough to cover the entire inner city of Stuttgart or half of Hollywood or 3.500 football fields in metal. Imagine this area would be covered by green space!”
“So I cast off my 2018 temperature blanket on Jan 1st and I am so pleased with how it turned out. I knit one garter stitch row every day for 365 days based on the daily high temp for my city. It was a very rewarding project.”
Comment les familles modestes utilisent-elles internet ? Comment sont-elles équipées ? Quel culture ont-elle vis-à-vis de cet outil ? Une analyse sociologique qui apporte un petit éclairage sur la façon dont l’usage d’internet change en fonction de la classe sociale.
Do you know how barcodes, thoses that we see everyday, work ? Did you know that you could hop on a plane thanks to a inkjet printer and a bit of time ? This video of DEFCON16 is a great introduction to security and how fucked up it is in our world.
The K-pop culture started in the 90s, with TV, well after western Pop. It was also born in the korean context, where liberalism and opposition to communism lead by a dictatorship shaped it’s futur. But, soon after, it transformed into much more than just a music genre. It’s now a manufactured culture for a whole country.
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I’ve wanted to go live on the road for quite some time now, but I’m reading more and more articles about people living on the road not by choice, but by obligation. More and more people in the US live in vans, by it in California where living is too costly, or across the country. Some of theses people found a very odd job : buy stuff in superstores, and selling it for a profit on Amazon. Live in your van, and Bezos might reward you if you find the right stuff.
Decentralized networks are resistant to censorship, but that also means that when nazis come along, they are also immune… Or are they ? If the community resists them, they might not be censord, just isolated. Is that enough ?
En catalogne, ne payer d’impôt, c’est pas seulement un truc des grosses entreprises capitalistes. C’est aussi ce qui permet, entre autres, à la coopérative intégrale de préparer, selon elle, la révolution.
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Android devices have a filesystem encryption, which means that it’s possible for you to access parts of the filesystem. It also relies on the devs getting the encryption right, as the apps have to do there own cryptographic configuration. What could go wrong ?
Google provides a tool to test how accessible websites are. But it’s far from perfect, and with a few tricks, you can get a perfect score while making the website totally unusable.
C’est ce qu’a découvert l’Union Africaine. En analysant les logs de ses serveurs, des ingénieurs africains ont découvert que l’intégralité des données étaient téléversé vers un serveur à Shangaï. Et un gros merci à la Chine d’avoir construit le siège de l’UA. Ils ont aussi découvert que le bâtiment était truffé de micros… Source
“La guerre d’Espagne vue à travers l’histoire d’un militant antifranquiste que sa petite-fille enterre à Liverpool. Ken Loach s’empare avec brio d’une révolution sans frontières, peu contée au cinéma, entre espoirs et désillusions.”
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This month had it’s share of problems : my two computers broke down a few days apart, and because I forgot to backup my writings, I’ve lost most of the links I saved for the past days. Thankfully, I have a lot more in reserve, so this month will be light, and more links will be published next month. There is, as always, a fair shaire of links about tech. I’ve shared a few links that helped me fix my problems, and some political articles I read and find interesting, but it doesn’t mean I agree a 100% with what’s written there. Have a good read !
As I said in introduction, my computers broke down. On my laptop, I had been using Ubuntu for the past 4 years, with virtually no problems, until my SSD failed.. I installed a new SSD, and decided it was time to move to something new, and installed Manjaro Linux. One of the things I was worried about was learning the Pacman package manager. I had read about people breaking theire system with updates. Thankfully, the archlinux wiki is a gold mine, and has a page where all the usual apt commands and translated to pacman commands ! Nice !
Why does Wordpress have a security flaw every other month ? Why do we use so much energy to power the internet ? Is there another way ?
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When you’re nostalgic of the old video games you played as a kid, sometimes the only solution is to build one yourself. That’s what Sérgio Vieira did, build the sound system, the logic, the motherboard and even writing a full game for the console ! The article is rich in details, with links to help you make your own !
“The neighborhood is a historic and contemporary site of the assertion of white racial and economic domination, particularly over Black people. Although there is strong evidence that whites continue to prefer racially segregated neighborhoods, fifty years of fair housing jurisprudence has made it more difficult to openly bar non-white residents. Among the many strategies used to protect white domination of residential space is the coordinated surveillance and policing of non-white people. In this paper, I show how Nextdoor, a neighborhood-based social network, has become an important platform for the surveillance and policing of race in residential space, enabling the creation of what I call digitally gated communities.”
AI doesn’t mean anything without the work of people who train it. And most of the time, that work is boring, badly paid and done by people who live in very though conditions. Talk about a revolution…
Done by a small group of enthousiasts, the Thinkpad X210 is modular, powerfull and durable. “Linux worked out of the box.”, “Battery life has increased significantly. I now get 6 hours with the flush battery and 10 hours with the extended battery.”, “The fan only turns on if I’m doing something intensive like compiling go or scrolling in Slack.”.
If it’s free, you’re the product : it’s true for emails too. But, even by paying for your emails, you have little control over what happens to them. One solution to that is self-hosting, I’ll write about that one day.
Make firefox respect your privacy. Lately, Mozilla has been integrating more and more services in the browser, even tho it might not be what you’re looking for in a browser. Keeping it simple is becoming hard, but this project’s aim is to make it easy.
Ce mois-ci, beaucoup d’analyse politique de l’actualité. En même temps, vu le climat politique en France en ce moment, c’est normal on va dire. Quelques liens aussi sur la technologie, et notamment une nouvelle qui est passée presque inapercue, à propos des écrans de pub dans le métro.
Un petit outil qui permet d’avoir une idée précise de la présence d’AirBnB dans votre ville, grâce à la récolte des données sur leur site web de façon automatisée. Vous pouvez ensuite les trier, les classer, etc…
On se doute que les états font rarement des excuses quand il s’agit de tuer des citoyens révoltés, mais le fait que ça soit inscrit dans la loi, qui leur donne un semblant de légitimité, est troublant.
Un institue à publié ce rapport qui traite du lien entre la transition écologique et la transition numérique au sein de la société. Mention spécial aux CHATONS, à la FDN et aux solutions low-tech
« Compte tenu du coût additionnel de la technologie, le coût de la voiture devient tel que celui qui peut se la payer n’est de toutes les façons pas derrière le volant, mais plutôt sur la banquette arrière… »
Dans le métro, à Paris, tout vos trajets sont maintenant traqué par les écrans de pub. N’oubliez pas de désactiver le wifi et le bluetooth avant de prendre le métro. Vous pouvez vous enlever des listes avec un marteau et un peu d’essence, ou en (suivant ce lien)[https://retency.com/stats/manual_optout.html]
Après un samedi de manifestations et de violences, des syndicats appellent à de nouvelles mobilisations pour le pouvoir d’achat, mardi 19 mars. Emmanuel Macron, qui avait repris pied grâce au grand débat, semble à nouveau subir les événements.
“Vous ne voyez pas le rapport ? Eh bien eux, si. La petite association allemande qui anime le projet Permaculture Commons a de modestes ambitions : changer le monde.”
Some people might argue that degrowth, in the economic sens, is utopian. That word is being used as a synomim to “impossible”. But, if you look at a definition of the word utopian, it might also mean “what has not been done, yet.”. And that’s a good thing : it means that we don’t know if it will fail or succed. But what we know for sure, is that growth is failling us. So, it’s utopian, and it’s a good thing.
“The reason for all this data is that at least one in five U.S. auto insurance policies now offers a potential discount if the customer consents to a vehicle monitor. "
Pubcast is an open-source, experimental replacement for RSS built on ActivityPub. The nice thing about it, it’s that it’s federated ! Which means you can boost some podcast you liked and share it with your friends. Also, it’s a two-way protocol, so feel free to like it !
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A work in progress project that aims to federate forges, aka git repos. It would be greate to be able to have an account on one git repo and star, comment, open issues on any other forge that’s part of the federation. The end of github’s dominance maybe ?
Even if it’s very wrong, video facial recognition is still being used. When the algorithms are secret, but the results grant authority to institutions, you end up being locked up even if you’re innoncent, because a camera thought you where somewhere you where not.
The most intesresting part of this article is the game they talk about at in the first part of the article. It makes you realise the extent of the data they collected, and the power they have thanks to it.
If you ever wanted to make your own radio station, it’s now easier than ever ! You just need a Raspberry Pi and this repo. You can even display the name of the music currently playing on the radio players, like the big stations.
“An especially problematic excision of the political is the marginalization within the cryptographic community of the secure-messaging problem, an instance of which was the problem addressed by David Chaum. Secure-messaging is the most fundamental privacy problem in cryptography: how can parties communicate in such a way that nobody knows who said what. More than a decade after the problem was introduced, Rackoff and Simon would comment on the near-absence of attention being paid to the it.” (Phillip Rogaway, The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work)
Le mythe premier de facebook, c’est que tout le monde est dessus, et le deuxième mythe c’est que tout le monde est joignable sur facebook. Or, quand on confit ses moyens de communications à une entreprise privée qui ne répond devant rien ni personne, on peut se retrouver avec quelques soucis, dont on se rend compte des années après…
Dans quelques années, on se rendra compte à quel point le régime français est autoritaire et coule doucement vers un régime dictatorial avec une couche de peinture démocratique.
Tout ce que l’on produit peut et va être commodifié par le capitalisme. Le soucis, c’est que notre vie doit pouvoir rester privé pour que l’on ne soit pas forcé ou influencé dans nos décisions sans notre consentement. Mais quand l’économie glisse progressivement vers une surveillance tout azimut, comment est-ce encore possible ? Et quels sont les implications politiques d’une telle évolution ?
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Les gens de chez Greenpeace ont fait un tableau sympa qui peut aider à savoir quoi acheter, et quand. À joindre à ce calendrier est celui des semis et de quoi faire pousser quand. D’ailleurs, conseil : les appartements c’est des serres formidables si on a un peu de place et de lumière.
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In decentralized social networks, communities can set their own moderation policies, but what tools are available for enforcement? There is no central authority to make network-wide moderation decisions. Instead, content is filtered through an interplay of interfaces, algorithms, social consensus, and protocol constraints. This post looks at technical approaches to decentralized moderation, and points out areas that could use more experimentation and research.
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I’ve often heard about how Cuba has an Internet access that’s slow, costly, and strictly censored. And while it seems to be true that it’s slow and costly, it doesn’t seem to be censured in the strict sense. But every connection you make to the network is strongly tied to your identity. You could argue that it’s kind of the same in much of Europe in that regard. Connection to the Internet has also been difficult because of the embargo imposed by the US.
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“Their hackers form a thriving community, located in all their clubs and universities. They have lots of female hackers there too. They are very competent programmers. […] They use Linux, Debian, BSD but even OpenVMS (I learned that there). But those are the official clibs. As their main problem is the lack of internet connections and speed, they build inter-home hobbist citywide LANs. They play games and share contents. They like to be provided with pirated TV programs, serials, and cartoons for the kids, and they share them using the makeshift networks.
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Born in 2001, The SNET has, in the past years, seen many evolutions. At first, it was mostly dumb switches connecting PCs to each other in a big LAN, but over several houses and neighborhood. A sort of Wide-Local Arena Network. Ethernet cables running from one house to another is not uncommon. And, as is the case when you run cables everywhere in the city without the cooperation of the municipality, it can get complicated. Cables are expensive to run, and in Cuba, where getting your hands on tech is a hassle, getting loads of CAT5e cable isn’t easy to start with. Regardless, that technique is still being used today.
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I’m Cuban (from a different city) and this is all true. I used to play WoW with homemade antenas and usb-wifi. It was really a great thing, because since the community on the servers is so small, you can actually get to meet them in person and have a lot of fun. So it had the benefits of gaming without all the social struggles it can bring. We also had a social-network called “the social” with no more than 100 active users, where, once again, you felt more safe and warm than when you use facebook.
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As of June 29th, 2019 , the government of Cuba has declared new regulations for networks aiming to regulate the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands. Although it lifts some regulations on importing network equipment, which was happening regardless, it seems to be making SNET, that was tolerated until now, effectively illegal. It’s users protested, holding demonstrations and publishing a video online (youtube link), explaining their protest.
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Around the world, people are setting up mesh networks. In Detroit, for example, people are prevented from accessing high-speed Internet because of a lack of funding, infrastructure or suppliers. The poverty of some neighborhoods also means that people just can’t afford Internet.
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On ne présente plus Twitter. Le réseau social compte désormais plusieurs millions d’utilisateurs, mais, récemment, de nombreuses critiques lui ont été adressé. D’une part, l’introduction d’un algorithme qui affiche les tweet sans tenir compte de l’ordre chronologique a confu des utilisateurices et enervé beaucoup de monde. D’autre part, étant une entreprise privée, Twitter Inc. est forcé de faire de plus en plus d’argent grâce à un service qui est gratuit, et utilise donc la publicité, qui devient de plus en plus invasive.
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Annoncé le 31 mars 2017, il allie une interface simple avec des fonctionnalitées qui manquaient cruellement à Twitter, et compte désormais 2 milions d’utilisateurices, voir plus.
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D'abord la pratique, et ensuite la théorie : Les leçons de la Petite École Zapatiste, après 20 ans d'existance.
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Par Kristin Bricker, CIP Americas, 5 septembre 2013, traduit par N07070
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Lors de ma première nuit durant la visite de la Petite École Zapatiste, mon guide et son mari ont demandé si mes étudiants avaient des questions. Mes étudiants et moi-même avions déjà eu l’expérience de travailler avec les Zapatistes, nous nous sommes donc poliment limités aux questions sûres, généralement posées lors de la visite d’un territoire rebelle : des questions sur les provisions, les récoltes, les points d’eau locaux, et toutes autres questions n’ayant rien à voir avec
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Le mari de mon guide a poliment répondu à nos questions mondaines. Puis, il a dit : « Écoutez, nous sommes clandestins depuis 1983, quand l’organisation venait de se former. Nous marchions des heures durant la nuit pour organiser d’autres villes, toujours la nuit pour éviter d’éveiller la suspicion des propriétaires de plantation, et nous allions dans le maquis pour nous entraîner. Ma femme a risqué sa vie en marchant la nuit dans le maquis pour amener des sacs de tostadas aux camps pour que les insurgés aient de la nourriture durant leur entraînement. Maintenant, avez-vous d’autres questions ? »
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Mes camarades de classe et moi-même nous sommes regardé, nos yeux semblant dire « Oh, c’est ainsi que ça se passera à la Petite École Zapatiste ».
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Nos questions commencèrent ensuite à être plus sérieuses, et nos guides ainsi que leurs voisins répondirent avec enthousiasme à chacune d’elle. Histoire de mettre les choses au clair.
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Les Zapatistes ont pris la décision d’ouvrir leurs maisons à leurs sympathisants de longue date et de leur apprendre leur passé, présent, erreurs, victoires et avancées pour plusieurs raisons. Durant la Petite École, les Zapatistes ont répété qu’ils espéraient que leurs partisans pouvaient apprendre de leurs expériences.
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« L’autogestion… est possible. Nous y sommes parvenus avec quelques compañeros et compañeras, pourquoi pas avec des centaines ou des millions ? » a demandé une Zapatiste d’Oventik. « Nous espérons que vous nous direz si nos pratiques, nos expériences avec l’autogestion vous seront utiles d’une manière ou d’une autre ».
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« Beaucoup de gens pensent que ce que nous faisons, notre forme de gouvernance, est une utopie, un rêve » dit un autre Zapatiste d’Oventik. « Pour nous Zapatistes, c’est une réalité car nous le réalisons… chaque jour, à travers une pratique quotidienne depuis 19 ans. Et c’est pour cela que nous pensons que si nous nous unissons avec des millions de Mexicains, nous pouvons former notre propre manière de gouverner ». (En opposions au gouvernement actuel, ndt)
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Il y a plusieurs années, un Zapatiste m’a dit qu’ils apprenaient souvent plus de leurs erreurs que de leurs victoires. Dans cet esprit, le curriculum de la Petite École inclut des discussions brutalement honnêtes sur les erreurs commises par les Zapatistes au cours des années. Par exemple, les livres scolaires incluent une discussion franche sur la disparition de la coopérative de café Mut Vitz en 2007. Bien que la fermeture soudaine et inexpliqué de la coopérative fut ressentie jusqu’aux États-Unis et en Europe, où les torréfacteurs se sont soudainement trouvés sans une source de café zapatiste, les Zapatistes n’avaient pas expliqué les raisons de la chute de Mut Vitz jusqu’à présent.
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Dans les livres scolaires de la Petite École, Roque, un ancien membre de la coopérative et membre actuel du Conseil Autonome Municipal de San Juan, d’Oventik, révèle que la mauvaise gestion et la corruption sont les raisons de la chute de Mut Vitz. La coopérative avait engagé un consultant extérieur qui, pour des raisons inconnues aux autres membres de la coopérative, n’avait pas correctement déclaré les actifs au Trésor publique mexicain, ce qui a permis au gouvernement de saisir le compte en banque de la coopérative. Alors que Mut Vitz faisait l’objet d’un audit interne pour déterminer quelle somme d’argent non comptabilisée les membres de la coopérative avaient mis de côté pour payer les producteurs de café à crédit, attendant la vente de leur produit, le Conseil du Bon Gouvernement d’Oventik découvrit que les membres du conseil d’administration de Mut Vitz volaient de l’argent de la coopérative. Le Conseil émit un ordre d’arrestation contre les parties concernées et saisit leurs biens pour compenser l’argent volé.
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Les Zapatistes espéraient aussi utiliser leur Petite École pour mettre au clair le statut de leur Mouvement. Ils lisent la presse, et ils ont dit aux étudiants qu’ils savaient que les médias dominants annonçaient que le mouvement zapatiste était en fin de vie, qu’il avait rendu les armes, que le Subcomandante Marcos était mort d’un cancer des poumons ou qu’il avait été viré, que la Comandancia (Les leaders Zapatistes) rencontrait le « mauvais » gouvernement en secret et en acceptait des millions de pesos, et que les Zapatistes étaient des communistes refoulés, parmi d’autres accusations infondées.
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De plus, les Zapatistes ont admis qu’il y avait eu des traîtres, des compañeros qui avaient quitté l’organisation et collaboré avec le gouvernement. Comme l’a dit un militant européen à la fin de la Petite École, « Je pense qu’ils ont réalisé qu’ils en étaient à un point où les services secrets en savaient plus sur le mode de fonctionnement du gouvernement zapatiste que les camarades de la société civile les ayant soutenu, et ont donc décidé de nous montrer ce qu’ils faisaient ».
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Après tout, le gouvernement civil zapatiste, non clandestin, et les indigènes non zapatistes utilisent quotidiennement les cliniques, lesystème judiciaire, les transports publics, et d’autres services qu’il semblait impossible d’obtenir du gouvernement mexicain. En plus,n’importe quel non-Zapatiste – que ça soit le « mauvais » gouvernement ou n’importe quelle organisation zapatiste - qui veut développer une infrastructure qui passe à travers le territoire zapatiste (électricité ou routes, par exemple) doit négocier avec le « bon » gouvernement zapatiste et donc en comprendre le fonctionnement. Avec la Petite École, les Zapatistes ont officiellement et pour qu’il en soit prit note, expliqué comment leur gouvernement fonctionne exactement.
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Peut-être que l’un des plus grand bénéfices de la Petite École eut lieu durant sont organisation. Les quatre livres scolaires de la Petite École, Gouvernement Autonome, Partie I et II, La participation des femmes dans le Gouvernement Autonome et Résistance Autonome, ainsi que les deux DVD accompagnant ces livres, furent créés par les Zapatistes eux-mêmes. Ces manuels sont le résultat des cinq Caracoles zapatistes (Les nœuds du gouvernement Zapatiste), au fil des voyages entrepris entre les régions pour récolter les témoignages et interviewer leurs camarades à propos de leur autogestion.
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L’approche du bas vers le haut du gouvernement zapatiste veut dire que chacun de ces Caracoles opère sous les mêmes principes de base et vers les mêmes buts, mais que leurs opérations au jour le jour diffèrent parfois singulièrement. Par exemple, chaque Caracol se compose d’un Conseil du Bon Gouvernement, la plus haute autorité de la région. Toutefois, chaque Conseil des Caracoles est organisé différemment. Une proportion importante des questions posées par les Zapatistes à leurs camarades dans la portion des manuels sur les interviews gravitait autour de leurs expériences, échecs et succès.
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Par exemple, un membre du Conseil d’Oventik demande à un ancien membre du Conseil de Morelia : « Est-ce que les douze membres du Conseil [de Morelia] sont capables de faire tout leur travail ? Parce qu’à Caracol II, nous sommes 28 et nous nous sentons parfois surmenés ». La réponse du Zapatiste de Morelia fut de reconnaître qu’ils se sentaient eux aussi surmenés et qu’ils avaient besoin de restructuration, sans pour autant être capables de proposer mieux jusqu’à aujourd’hui.
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Quand les Zapatistes prirent les armes au Chiapas le 1er Janvier 1994, ils désiraient leur liberté et leur autonomie. « Mais nous n’avions pas de guide ou de plan pour nous indiquer quoi faire », m’expliqua unpromoteur d’éducation zapatiste. « Pour nous, c’était d’abord la pratique, ensuite la théorie ».
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Tandis qu’une partie de l’EZLN faisait fuir de leurs plantations les riches propriétaires terriens de la campagne du Chiapas durant l’aube de la journée de l’an, d’autres contingents prirent sept villes majeurs de l’État. « Tout ce que nous avions accompli fut possible grâce à nos armes, qui ouvrirent le chemin sur lequel nous marchons aujourd’hui » explique un Zapatiste d’Oventik dans un DVD de la Petite École. « [Depuis lors], chacune de nos réalisations, nous l’avons concrétisée sans tirer un coup de feu ».
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Immédiatement après le soulèvement, les Zapatistes mirent en place un gouvernement autonome au niveau des villes. Chaque cité nomma ses autorités locales et forma une assemblée. « Mais vu que nous étions en guerre, nous perdions sans arrêt des autorités locales » explique Lorena, un promoteur/ organisateur ?? de santé publique de San Pedro de Michoacan dans La Realidad. « Il y avais du chaos dans les communautés ». Comme mesure de prévention, le commandement militaire de l’EZLN dût entrer en piste et endosser des rôles que les autorités civiles n’étaient pas capable d’assumer durant le chaos de la guerre.
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Le commandement militaire tint des consultations avec les autorités civiles, et d’un commun accord, mit en place des municipalités autonomes dans le but d’établir l’ordre et un gouvernement civil dans les territoires rebelles. En décembre 1994, les Zapatistes inaugurèrent 38 municipalités autonomes dans un nombre inconnu de villes. Chaque municipalité avait son propre conseil nommé par les villes, ce qui permit une meilleur coordination entre les villes et une plus grande organisation formelle et des affaires civiles.
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Alors que des militants solidaires arrivaient en territoire zapatiste pour apporter leur soutien financier et faire don de leur travail, le commandement de l’EZLN réalisa que certaines municipalités recevaient plus de soutien que d’autres, plus isolées. « Suivant l’ordre du [Commandant], le conseil municipal se réunit et commença à superviser l’avancement des municipalités, combien de soutien chacune recevait, et quels projets étaient réalisés » m’expliqua Dorotea, un ancien membre du Conseil du Bon Gouvernement de La Realidad.
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En 1997, les Zapatistes formalisèrent les assemblés municipales en créant l’Association des Municipalités Autonomes formée de représentants de chaque municipalité. « Avec l’association des municipalités, des tâches et du travail de la santé, de l’éducation, et du commerce furent supervisées », se rappelle Doroteo. « Durant ce temps, un entrepôt de biens secs fut crée … dans l’idée d’apporter un soutien [économique] aux travailleurs à pleins temps de l’hôpital [zapatiste] de San José del Rio ».
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Durant la création de l’Association des Municipalités Autonomes, les Zapatistes redistribuèrent formellement les terres qui avaient été saisies durant le soulèvement de 1994. Les sans-terres zapatistes partirent de leurs communautés de naissance pour s’installer sur les terres récupérées, qu’ils pouvaient finalement appeler la leur, réalisant la maxime du héros Emiliano Zapata : « La Terre à ceux qui la travaillent ! »
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En 2003, les Zapatistes ont inauguré le troisième niveau de leur gouvernement autonome, les cinq Conseils Du Bon Gouvernement, situé à La Realidad, Oventik, La Garrucha, Morelia et Roberto Barrios. Néanmoins, l’organisation de plus haut niveau de gouvernement ne veut pas dire que les Zapatistes s’éloignent d’une démocratie directe à travers des assemblés locales. Au contraire, toutes les propositions doivent être approuvées par les assemblées des villes.
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Les propositions émanent des assemblées des villes et remontent dans les différents niveaux du gouvernement autonome si elles concernent plus que la ville de laquelle elles proviennent. Chaque proposition passe par le conseil municipal, qui transmet ensuite les propositions approuvées au Conseil du Bon Gouvernement, qui à son tour les faits suivre à son Commandement, qui va ensuite renvoyer la proposition dans les cinq conseils du Bon Gouvernement. Une fois avalisées, ces propositions sont retournées aux conseils municipaux, qui les relaient aux différentes villes pour consultation et mise en œuvre.
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Le Commandement peut aussi élaborer ses propres propositions et les transmettre aux trois niveaux du gouvernement citoyen pour consultation et mise en œuvre. De fait, même si les Conseils du Bon Gouvernement sont les plus hautes autorités du gouvernement autonome, ils n’ont aucune autorité pour créer des lois. Les conseils sont cantonnés à leurs deux rôles principaux : coordonner et promouvoir le travail dans leurs régions, imposer et effectuer l’application des lois et des mandats zapatistes qui ont été approuvés par le peuple.
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Parce que les Zapatistes ont construit leur gouvernement de bas en haut, que les individus se sont organisés dans des assemblés de communautés, qui sont à leur tour organisées en conseils municipaux, qui, eux, sont sous-jacents aux cinq conseils du Bon Gouvernement, chaque Caracol est différent. Tous travaille à l’application des principes zapatistes : La terre, un toit, la santé, l’éducation, le travail, la nourriture, la justice, la démocratie, la culture, l’indépendance, la liberté et la paix. Toutefois, les progrès réalisés par les Zapatistes dans la mise en œuvre de ces principes varient d’un Caracol à l’autre. Certains Caracoles, tel celui de La Garrucha, ont des projets économiques collectifs comme des boutiques ou l’élevage de bovins pour financer les activités politiques dans chacun des trois niveaux de gouvernement; d’autres Caracoles, comme celui d’Oventik, ont seulement des projets économiques collectifs dans certaines de leurs villes.
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Beaucoup ont parlé des récentes mobilisations zapatistes, telle celle du 21 Décembre 2012, la marche silencieuse et la création de la Petite École, comme d’une résurgence zapatiste. La Petite École mit une chose en avant : ce n’était pas une résurgence, parce que les Zapatistes n’avaient jamais disparu. Durant la petite école, les étudiants ont appris de la création, qui semble sans fin, de nouvelles coopératives, des expériences zapatistes dans la gouvernance collective, en amélioration constante, et comment les donations de leurs sympathisants ont été investies dans un stock de vivres et des entrepôts pour qu’ils puissent payer des dividendes qui servirons sur le long terme à payer le budget des hôpitaux et des cliniques.
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As I came out of The Green Fairy, my neighbordhood’s associative coffee shop, I was hit by a ray of light, and needed to stop for a few seconds. I’d spent the night drinking, some home-made beer a friend had been brewing for the past months, and let me tell you, it was one of the finest beer I had recently. The sweet aromas of orange and cinammon were very welcome, but now I had to pay their price.
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Thankfully, this coffe shop is my little retreat. It’s not really a coffe shop actually, every one that comes in takes turns in opening and taking care of it, but nobody will serve you here. You can find couches, a kitchen, and it’s up to you too make your food and stuff. I can stay there as long as I want, and usually just sit on a chair in the courtyard behind the building, listing to the birds sing, the sound of the water and people discussing around me. In winter, the brick walls stay dry and warm, birds come for refuge, chirping as the sun rises.
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When I was 5, my grand parents bought me and my sister a bike for christmas. It had litte wheels on the side, and I went around the house and the garden with a big smile. The day after, we went to the closest parc, and since then I haven’t come off my bike’s saddle.
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I started walking toward the docks, only a few minutes away. I left my bike there last night, cause I wasn’t really able to ride it, if you see what I mean. I turned left on Proudhon street, and I arrived in front of a big warehouse. You could see a huge painting on the facade : a bicycle wheel with plants and flowers growing around it, painted by a crew of local artists and squatters, a few years back. Behind a big door, Mike was waiting for me. Mike’s a cool guy. He’s part of a collective who lends small four-wheel bikes with trunks to move stuff around. The solar panels on the roof power the electric batteries, so even people that aren’t very strong can move their cats and dogs around in the city. While I was lost in my thoughts, Mike slid the door open in front of me.
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Fuck. My friends drew a huge fish, right in the middle of my forhead, again. The’re getting better at drawing fish, I thought, as I was cleaning my face.
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Mike told me to come see him in the back of the warehouse as I was whiping off the last bits of ink. He had prepared my ride for the day. I had the black-and-white stripped trike ! It also had a big eye painted on the back, which I always found funny because it made me think of the way some butterflies have “eyes” on there wings to scare birds. We painted the eye to scare cars !
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“As always, you’ll need to bring it back and service it with Thapelo, they’ll be the one in charge this afternoon…”
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“No worries Mike, you know how I drive !”
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I took the keys of the trike, and said goodbye to everyone. I pressed on the pedal as I started to roll.
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I left the docks with my trike, and decided to take the bike lanes on the side of the river. The trees shade most the ride from the sun, and delicatly brush in the wind. I always like to see people rowing and swim, now that the rivers are clean. I never though I would of seen that one day, but it took only three years to get clean, and fish have now started to come back.
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I followed the river until I got to the new communal center, made a turn, and rode further into the city. As I arrived near the 20th district market, I stopped, and parked by bike.
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I heard that a new bamboo pipe shippement had arrived, and I wanted to get a few for the hydroponics system. I also wanted to go see the gardener’s corner to get a few seeds and, if I could find it, a hop plant. I’ve got a projet brewing in my mind for that one.
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The market in itself was in a huge hall, made of cast iron. It was all painted red, in rememberance of the blood people spilled building it at the time. It had a glass roof that provided a lot of sun all year round, and in the winter, big curtains of vibrant colors where put up during a small festival in the first week of november. Every family, collective and there friends make the curtains and restore the old one during the party, and at night it becomes a huge music-hall… I love this place, sometimes when I go through it, I can almost hear last year’s music in the back of my head. I was arriving to the building section of the market.
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Indeed the bamboo pipes had arrived. I took a few, and asked if someone wanted to help me move them to my trike. A young person smoking a cigarette told me that they would be there in a minute. I offered to teach them how to make a herbal cigarette with minth and hazelnut leaves in exchange.
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Moving the pipes was the easy part. We just took each pipe on each side, and stacked them on the roof. I was wondering if the tryke could hold the weight, but what really worried me was hitting someone while turning. I guess a small red cloth will do the trick, I hope…
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Once the pipes where loaded, we sat down. I had a small bag of smoking herbs, and handed them a small batch. It was a 70% hazelnut and 30% minth mix, but I explained you could mix it to your taste. We shared a cigarette and went each our ways.
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Now, for the best part of my day : the gardener’s corner. It’s filled with the most exotic plants, and, among other things, you can find a few herborists that have some of the best teas to cure the worst hangovers. At the entrance, you can spot a big pot of boiling water, where you can make yourself tea. I went to exchange a usb key for a few herbs.
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I took my usual, and asked around for a hop plant. An old woman, who traveled half the world after feeling her home in rural East Asia told me about a Berliner that had a few plants she grew in her garden. My german wasn’t that good, but I managed to update her computer in exchange for two hops and a morning glory.
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After loading all of that in my trike, I pedaled to the building my friends had opened. It was an old, grey building that was once home to a horrible police departement. When the last officer of the city gave his gun back, the bulding closed, and nobody wanted to do anything with it. Until recently. It wasn’t very welcoming, but flowers were starting to bloom all over it… The parking had been destroyed and upgraded to a garden. My morning glories where soon going to be climing all over the walls. Someone was playing guitar and children where learning how to make a wind turbine.
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As I unloaded the pipes, Jules shouted at me from the roof : “There you are ! We thought that you got lost in the gardener’s market again !”
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“Not today ! Come help me bring all of this upstairs instead of standing in front of my sunshine !” I shouted back jockingly.
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Bringing the pipes up to the roof was not easy, even with ropes. They were pretty heavy, but they especially moved around so much that we nearly smashed a window. It took us the best of an hour.
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Once all of the pipes were on the roof, we started measuring them to fit the water irrigation system we designed. Two buildings next to ours had big tarpaulins that fed into pipes, that connected to a big water tank on our roof. The system could store quite a bit of water, which would be good enough for most of the year. From that tank, we needed to bring water to the different parts of the roof, and the different plants.
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Naseem, a friend of Jules, had studied electric-less water control systems and came up with something truly ingenious : a small black glass contraption. When it’s heated by the sun, it creates a void that pumps up water from the tank into a Pythagorean cup system. Gravity then pumps water by itself. It took me some time to understand exactly how it worked, it seemed like magic for me.
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When it’s raining, no need for water, and went it’s cold, it takes more time for water to evaporate, so it’s fool-proof year-round.
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The difficulty lied in calibrating the system, and that’s what took most of the evening. It was interruped by a water battle and a few water bombs from the kids downstairs, but we fought back with water guns !
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As the sun went down, we started to feel tired. The sun had been shining all day, but the LEDs were now starting to turn on, and it was becoming harded to see what we where doing… I headed to the cellar where a few jars of grass, a welcoming present from the couple down the street. When I came back up, everybody had stopped working. I offered everybody to have a joint, and someone brought out a guitar. Why is there always a guitar ?! The barbecue was well under way, and everybody needed to rest a little before eating.
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+Une patrouille de combattants zapatiste dans la forêt du Chiapas.
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