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Bring a Walking Stick: New festival to Defend Free Area in France: Oct 8th

Notre-Dame-des-Landes (France): Defend the ZAD – a Call for International Solidarity

For over 50 years, farmers and locals have resisted the building of a new airport for the French city of Nantes (which by the way already has one). Now in these rich fields, forests and wetlands, which multinational Vinci want to cover in concrete, an experiment in reinventing everyday life in struggle is blossoming.

Radicals from around the world, local farmers and villagers, citizen groups, trade unionists and naturalists, refugees and runaways, squatters and climate justice activists and many others, are organising to protect the 4000 acres of land against the airport and its world.

Government officials have coined this place “a territory lost to the republic”. Its occupants have named it: la ZAD (Zone À Défendre), zone to defend. Continue reading “Bring a Walking Stick: New festival to Defend Free Area in France: Oct 8th”

Llamado a la Solidaridad Anarquista Internacional con la Huelga de Presos desde Sept 9 en EEUU

ultima hora: lista extensiva de acciones del IWW aquí: SPREADING THE STRIKE: SOLIDARITY ACTIONS ACROSS NORTH AMERICA FOR SEPTEMBER 9TH

Esta primavera, los IWW (los legendarios anarquistas ‘wobblies’) y grupos comunitarios aliados organizaron huelgas en las carceles de miles de trabajadores encarcelados en Alabama, Wisconsin, Texas, Mississippi y Ohio, todos exigiendo el derecho a formar un sindicato. El Comision Organizador de Trabajadores Encarcelados del IWW ha llamado a una huelga nacional de las/los presos desde el 9 de septiembre 2016 con motivo del 45 aniversario del levantamiento de la prisión de Attica y afirma que tiene el apoyo de miles de prisioneros en los Estados Unidos.

de https://325.nostate.net traducido y compartido por The Free

El 9 de septiembre, los presos en los Estados Unidos comenzarán una huelga que será un paro general contra la esclavitud en la carcel. En resumen, los presos se niegan a trabajar; se niegan a mantener las prisiones que se cuidan por sus propios esfuerzos.

Los presos se luchan, no sólo por mejores condiciones o cambios en las reglas de libertad condicional, pero en contra de la esclavitud en la prisión. Los presos afirman que la Enmienda 13, que abolió la esclavitud racial, al mismo tiempo permitió que los seres humanos pueden ser forzados a trabajar de forma gratuita o casi nada, siempre y cuando fueran prisioneros.

El actual sistema de la esclavitud en la prisión es una continuación de la esclavitud racial, que es un sistema que genera miles de millones de dólares en ganancias cada año por las grandes empresas en las industrias clave, como los combustibles fósiles, comida rápida, bancos, y los militares de EE.UU. . Continue reading ” Llamado a la Solidaridad Anarquista Internacional con la Huelga de Presos desde Sept 9 en EEUU”

Turkey pauses Invasion and Massacres as Syrian Democratic Forces defend Manbij

Will the US have the guts to stand up against the Turkish invasion ? Or will they stand back, do a dirty deal and let Erdogan, the supreme commander, massacre the SDF, an 80,000 strong secular democratic coalition of Kurdish, Arab, Turkmen, Women, Christian, International,Yazidi, etc. anti-ISIS militias?

The occupant Turkish army continues attacking villages to the north of the Sajur River in northern Manbij. Turkish military forces and affiliated gang groups targeted dozens of villages in this area with artillery fire on Monday evening. Three children and two other civilians lost their lives as a result of the artillery attacks targeting the village of Dandania. The same village was targeted by a chemical attack of the Turkish army on August 25th. Villagers said smoke and foul smells were rising from the rockets thrown on the village which caused burns and itching on the skin. — The occupying Turkish army continues attacking villages to the north of the Sajur River in northern Manbij. Turkish military forces and affiliated militias targeted dozens of villages in this area with artillery fire killing 35 civilians, torturing 3 SDF prisoners and again on Monday evening.3 children and two other civilians lost their lives as a result of the artillery attacks targeting the village of Dandania.

President Erdogan, the ”Beast of Istanbul”, has ordered his jets and tanks to pause at the Sajur river before pursuing the SDF forces to take Manbij city.

Will the Turkish State (which has nearly 5,000 tanks) now massacre the lightly armed SDF, which is the only democratic, inclusive, feminist and multi ethnic militia in the whole Middle East just to satisfy the bloodlust and imperial ambitions of Hitler-admirer Erdogan and protect his family’s oil business with ISIS? Continue reading “Turkey pauses Invasion and Massacres as Syrian Democratic Forces defend Manbij”

Call for World Anarchist Solidarity with US Prison Strike

late news .. huge list of actions from IWW.. HERE> SPREADING THE STRIKE: SOLIDARITY ACTIONS ACROSS NORTH AMERICA FOR SEPTEMBER 9TH

This spring, the IWW and allied community groups organized prison labor strikes of thousands of incarcerated workers in Alabama, Wisconsin, Texas, Mississippi, and Ohio—all demanding the right to form a union. The IWW Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee has called for a nationwide prison strike from September 9 to mark the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising and claims it has the support of thousands of prisoners throughout the United States.

from https://325.nostate.net, shared with thanks

On September 9th, prisoners across the United States will begin a strike that will be a general work stoppage against prison slavery. In short, prisoners will refuse to work; they will refuse to keep the prisons running by their own labors.

Prisoners are striking not just for better conditions or changes in parole rules, but against prison slavery. Prisoners state that under the 13th Amendment which abolished racial slavery, at the same time it allowed human beings to be worked for free or next to nothing as long as they were prisoners.

Prisoners see the current system of prison slavery to thus be a continuation of racial slavery, which is a system that generates billions of dollars in profits each year for major corporations in key industries such as fossil fuels, fast food, banking, and the US military. Continue reading “Call for World Anarchist Solidarity with US Prison Strike”

submedia TV: Dakotas block Pipeline..IWW Prison Strike.. Burn Down the Plantation

In this sedition we bring you an exclusive interview with prison inmate Melvin Ray, secretly filmed inside Holman Prison in Alabama. Melvin is a member of the Free Alabama Movement, a national organization against mass Incarceration and prison slavery.

They have teamed up with the IWW’s Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, to organize the largest prison strike in history, set to kick off on September 9th. Read more about the actions leading up to the strike at It’s Going Down.

You can listen to our entire interview with Melvin Ray here.

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On the news section we give you a blow by blow of the recent Milwaukee rebellions that erupted, following the police murder of African American Sylville K. Smith.

We follow this up with the growing resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline in so called North Dakota. Continue reading “submedia TV: Dakotas block Pipeline..IWW Prison Strike.. Burn Down the Plantation”

Greece: Anarchist Refugee Collectives Displace state Detention Centres

While the world’s media is suitably distracted by the Olympic Games in Brazil, the war in Syria and beyond continues to see thousands of people – men, women and children – killed each week and many more attempting the perilous journey as refugees to seek safety.

from Undercover1nfo with thanls

Meanwhile in the last two months there has been a deafening silence in the media about the plight of the thousands of refugees still stuck in Greece. Only 2500 refugees have so far been granted asylum status – the process is excruciatingly slow and most of those granted this status have yet to be relocated.

A report by the Greek Centre for Disease Control recommended all 16 of the refugee detention centres it inspected be closed due to unsanitary conditions and poor water supply. But while the Greek authorities seem unable to move forward, grassroots activists – anarchists – have yet again taken matters into their own hands and are providing shelter and food to those in need. However, this is not charity, or the result of a philanthropic endeavour, but direct democracy in practice.

Anarchists in Greece have been providing squatted accommodation – abandoned schools, hotels etc – for refugees – since the current conflicts in Syria began. And as soon as the Greek authorities organised evictions of these premises, more buildings have been squatted. Continue reading “Greece: Anarchist Refugee Collectives Displace state Detention Centres”