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By Bandido | September 2020

I met Pong in 2004. I saw him at a punk show all dressed up in punk battle attire alongside his friends Tonton and other Makati Punks. I visited him at his meeting place in Makati, and then I learned that Pong lived in a jeepney [a sort of crossover between a jeep and bus] and sometimes stayed in university rooms or at a friend’s house in Makati.

When his family moved to the relocation site in Cavite, Pong and his older brother still remained in Makati. Pong was literally a nomad, moving from place to place. When I worked as a tricycle driver, Pong and others visited me at our terminal and ate together after I finished my job. If we wanted to visit the anarchist space in Cubão, we would sleep together on the streets at night.

Pong did not finish his study of graphic design and instead lived as a street punk and artist. He was the one who intensely made posters, pamphlets for concerts and events, banners for any political activity such as demonstrations, hanging banners, etc. Its fort was black and white drawings with a ballpoint pen. The images of his works were related to anti-war (Food Not Bombs), anti-civilization, counterculture punk and anarchism.

He was inspired by the Black Bloc, anarchist and zapatista personalities. You would see this in your sketchbook, zines or recycled bond paper. Pong kept up to date with the socio-political events that were taking place globally, and you could see that with his drawings. I can say that he was an internationalist because of his concern for the situation around the world.

Continue reading “Philippines: RIP Pong (Gutson Heyres): A passionate and dedicated anarchist street artist, activist and poet English/Portuguese”

Agence France-PresseSep 16, 2020 16:16:13 IST

A China-developed coronavirus vaccine could be ready for the public as early as November, a Chinese official has told state television, as the global race to clear the final round of trials heats up..

Chinese manufacturers have been bullish about development, with companies Sinovac Biotech and Sinopharm even putting their vaccine candidates on display at a trade fair in Beijing this month.

Representatives of the firms told AFP that they hope their vaccines will be approved after phase 3 trials as early as year-end.

And on late Monday, the chief biosafety expert at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control told state broadcaster CCTV that a vaccine would be available to the general public “around November or December.”

In June, China’s 2,035,000 strong military approved a vaccine for use within its ranks developed by its research unit and a biotech firm.

Wu Guizhen did not specify which vaccine she was referring to but said,”based on phase 3 clinical results, the current progress is very smooth.”

China Injects Hundreds of Thousands With Covid 19 vaccine

Wu added that she had taken a vaccine in April and has felt good over the past few months, although she did not specify which candidate she had taken.

September 29 – China reported 12 newly confirmed cases, all of which were imported cases (5 cases in Shanghai, 3 cases in Sichuan, 3 cases in Shaanxi, and 1 case in Fujian); no new deaths;

There are currently nine vaccine candidates in late-stage human trials, although some have hit recent obstacles — pharma giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University momentarily paused clinical trials last week after a volunteer developed an unexplained illness.

Some of China’s vaccine candidates have already been offered to essential workers under an emergency use programme.

A Sinovac spokesman told AFP this month that “tens of thousands” of people had voluntarily taken its vaccine, including 90 percent of its employees and their families — between 2,000 and 3,000 people.

K’é Infoshop cofounder Radmilla Cody. (K’e Infoshop / Instagram)

Out of a vacant coffeeshop, the collective K’é Infoshop is dedicated to mutual aid on America’s largest reservation.

By Cecilia Nowell shared with thanks via The Nation

About an hour west of the New Mexico–Arizona border, an expanse of highway, sky, and sagebrush-spotted terrain ends in sandstone cliffs. The red-orange walls drop down into Canyon de Chelly, the only national park operated on land still owned by the Navajo Nation.

This summer, as the per capita rate of coronavirus cases in the Navajo Nation surpassed New York state’s, Kauy Bahe, 19, found himself standing on the canyon’s edge as he delivered food to a Navajo elder and her family as part of a mutual aid effort.

“It was a beautiful spot,” Bahe (Navajo) said, describing the woman’s cornfield

and hogan (a traditional Navajo home made of wood and packed soil) outside Del Muerto, Ariz. But “she was telling us about the struggles for water, about how they don’t have running water there and how they have to drive 30 minutes” to buy it.

Across the United States, activists have responded to the Covid-19 crisis with anarchist strategies, like mutual aid. In Window Rock, Ariz.—the seat of the Navajo Nation—the K’é Infoshop is one such group, and has been supplying elders, families, and the immunocompromised with food and medical supplies. But the Infoshop’s members, like Bahe, say their style of autonomous organizing has distinctly Navajo roots.

Continue reading “In the Navajo Nation, Anarchism Has Indigenous Roots”

Final Straw: The Struggle For Likhtsamisyu Liberation Continues – Updates from Delee Nikal

Wet’suwet’en The Final Straw Delee Nikal

Long time anarchist radio and podcast show The Final Straw presents an interview with Delee Nikal of the Wet’su’weten about the ongoing struggle at the Gidimt’en Camp and the fight against the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

Originally published by The Final Straw Radio.

Listen ..click HERE.. to the show

This week we had the opportunity to connect with Delee Nikal, who is a Wet’su’weten community member, about updates from the Gidimt’en Camp that was created to block the TransCanada Coastal GasLink pipeline (or CGL) that Canada is trying to push through their un-ceded territory.

Continue reading “Final Straw Podcast : Likhtsamisyu + Delee Nikal +Sean Swain + BLM + Peter Gelderloos”

”The Turkish dictator Erdogan, whose support has been falling , declared unconditional support for Azerbaijan”… “#Turkey, which annihilated #Armenians in their historical homeland & up until now justifies that crime, supports #Azerbaijan to carry out same genocidal acts in #SouthCaucasus”.. Reports boast that Turkey already sent armaments and jihadist groups to Azerbaijan.

Hawkish rhetoric against Armenia explodes in Turkey as Azerbaijan advances in contested enclave

By TM – September 28, 2020 shared with thanks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (R) arrive to hold a joint press conference following a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan on July 10, 2018.

Bellicosity and warmongering took hold of Turkish public discourse after reports of military gains for Azerbaijan against Armenian forces on Sunday over a disputed enclave ruled by a government recognized only by Armenia.

Continue reading “Calls to join War against Armenia explode in Turkey as Azerbaijan advances in contested enclave”

from Freedom News…. shared with thanks.

• deaths in custody
• This article discusses racist police violence and deaths in custody.

As readers are doubtlessly aware: in the early hours of last Friday morning a police officer was shot and killed in Croydon custody centre. While the details surrounding the incident are still unclear, cops and their right wing cheerleaders are already using it as an opportunity to demand greater police powers as well as harsher punishments for those who allegedly do them harm.

People attend a demonstration in Parliament Square in central London, on June 6, 2020,

Indeed, one retired officer, former Detective Chief Inspector Chris Phillips, has sought to blame the incident on critics of the systematic racist violence known as stop-and-search. Asked about how someone could enter the custody centre while armed, Phillips said: “I think police officers are probably less likely to search people now with all the furore that goes on”.

Continue reading “A death in custody only matters when it’s a cop”