Category: anti-nationalist

Networks of Resistance Part 2 – Infrastructure; Exarcheia and Coop Integral

Athens, Greece – The challenges of building everyday infrastructure for radical movements are broad and often hard to overcome.

from unicorn riot, with thanks.     From the perspective of participants of the Networks of Resistance: 1st European Local Struggles Conference in Athens, Greece, exchanging the best tactics and proven practices strengthens the abilities for all anti-capitalist resistance movements to have an effective future.Image result for ExarcheiaNet

Day two of the conference featured a presentation of technical projects focusing on building infrastructure, and the autonomous zones of Exarcheia in Athens and the Catalan Integral Cooperativa (Catalonia, Spain).

For the first day of the Networks of Resistance conference, see: Networks of Resistance Conference Part 1 – ZAD, Bure, Hambach Forest

The two-day conference during a hot weekend in the summer of 2017, took place inside of the self-organized squat, Embros Theater, in the Psiri district of Athens, close to the Acropolis. Continue reading “Networks of Resistance Part 2 – Infrastructure; Exarcheia and Coop Integral”

ZAD, Bure, Hambach Forest: Networks of Resistance Part 1

Greece: Networks of Resistance Conference Part 1 – ZAD, Bure, Hambach Forest

Athens, Greece   from unicorn riot, with thanks.         – In the summer of 2017, folks in Athens organized the Networks of Resistance: 1st European Local Struggles Conference to “create an open source platform” to expand upon and share the experiences, knowledge, and ideas that have arisen from organically created resistance encampments currently building new alternatives outside of capitalism and nation-states.

The two-day conference was held in the self-organized Embros Theater, which is a squatted ex-factory in the Psiri District of Athens.

Navigating through the dynamics of building strong grassroots movements that impact radical change is a arduous task. The resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in the United States was monumental, but it didn’t stop the project nor the flow of oil. In Europe, resistance to development and fossil fuel extraction projects continues to grow in waves, similar to the USA, and like the resistance camps around Standing Rock, autonomous experiments of building an alternative society outside of capitalism and void of consumerism and hierarchy have existed for years now. Continue reading “ZAD, Bure, Hambach Forest: Networks of Resistance Part 1”

The Feminist Army Spreading Women’s revolution.. Leading the Fight against ISIS

 

Kurdish women hold a photo of Arin Mirkan, killed in fight against IS

Dilar Dirik salutes militant women-organised democracy in action in Rojava

It was in the autumn of 2014, only months after so-called Islamic State (ISIS) achieved massive territorial gains inside Syria and Iraq, committing genocidal and femicidal massacres as it did so, that a revolutionary silver lining arose from the little-known town of Kobane.

Having overrun Mosul, Tel Afar and Sinjar in Iraq, as well as a vast expanse of territory inside Syria, ISIS prepared to launch an attack on the north of Syria, known by Kurds as Rojava.

What it did not anticipate in Kobane was to encounter an enemy of a different kind – an organised, political community that was ready to defend itself courageously by all means necessary, and with a worldview that turns ISIS’s death ideology on its head.

Arîn Mîrkan, a young, revolutionary Kurdish woman, would become the symbol of Kobane’s victory.

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Emergency: Bolivia permits Highway through TIPNIS, the Most Beautiful Jungle

Emergency in TIPNIS (Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure)

from Contra Info   first part translated by Earth First! Journal  

TIPNIS [Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Secure] is a territory where the Pacha (Earth) is being devastated by people who see it as a space to plunder for their own enrichment;

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It is not only the fauna that they attempt to destroy (thousands of species of animals and communities that have been thrived before the advance of Capital and ‘civilization’.

TIPNIS is located between the north of Cochabamba Dept. and the south of Beni. From the year 2000 to 2012, there were nine protest marches through the territory, demanding that those in Power respect their self-determination and not interfere in their behavior with the natural environment. This place has a lot of diversity as far as nature is concerned, and therefore is attractive to exploiters.

While Morales was enacting the new law, in the streets of Trinidad indigenous of the TIPNIS, environmental activists and settlers marched against Law 266 because they consider that the highway will only allow the expansion of the coca crops. According to the latest report of the  Oficina de las Naciones Unidas Contra la Droga y el Delito (UNODC),United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), these illegal sowings grew by 150 per cent from 2015 to 2016.

In October 2011, with the arrival of thousands of TIPNIS defenders, a law was approved which grants intangibility to the protected area. However, those in Power approved this past Tuesday [August] 8 a law that removes the intangibility of TIPNIS.

This was based on a false consultation, in which native communities resisted participation and those who did vote were the colonizers, bribed people and senior leaders who were later expelled by the real TIPNIS communities. Continue reading “Emergency: Bolivia permits Highway through TIPNIS, the Most Beautiful Jungle”

Saudi Arabia Defends Decision to Execute 14 shia youth Activists

Saudi Arabia: 14 shia protestors facing ‘imminent’ beheading

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by LouSaudi Arabia defended its decision to execute more than a dozen Shia activists involved in demonstrations during the 2011 and 2012 Arab Spring revolts.

Image result for shocking pink protest saudi execution 14 activistssee also.. Saudis Slaughter More Women and Children in U.S.-Backed War

In a rare statement, the Saudi authorities said it had sentenced the activists to death based on a fair trial. 

Human-rights activists claim that some of the sentenced men were tortured and forced into making false confessions. This later led to them being convicted to death in a secretive counter-terrorism court.

The group included a teenager who was arrested at the airport before boarding a flight to visit a university in Michigan, and a youth who is half-deaf and nearly blind, activists said.

Shias in the Sunni-majority kingdom have long complained of discrimination and harassment by fanatical Sunni authorities. Image result for code pink protest saudi execution 14 activists

Middle East Eye this week reported on the continued siege Saudi authorities have imposed on a Shia-majority town in the east of the country.  see.. Saudi Arabia’s Orwellian “Development Plans” For The Shia Town It Just Flattened

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Pussy Riot Members Detained After Protest In Siberia

They were protesting  Ukrainian filmmaker Sentsov’s 20-year prison sentence.

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Maria Alyokhina, right, was reportedly detained in Russia on Monday. 

By Katherine Brooks        Two members of the Russian punk activist group Pussy Riot were detained in Russia on Monday after participating in a protest outside of a Siberian prison, The Associated Press reports.

Maria Alyokhina, one of three Pussy Riot members famously arrested after performing in a Moscow cathedral in 2012, tweeted that she and Olga Borisova were taken into custody by police after protesting the imprisonment of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov in Yakutsk, a remote city in Siberia located approximately 3,000 miles east of Moscow. Continue reading “Pussy Riot Members Detained After Protest In Siberia”

Terrorismo Económico contra Cataluña: la mano negra del Estado Español

    Los Guardias de Seguridad en el aeropuerto de Barcelona siguen su huelga parcial. Aunque hoy la situación ha mejorada bastante miles de personas han tenido que esperar más de dos horas en línea esta semana.
El 25% de los ingresos de Barcelona vienen de los turistas y hay sospechas que el Estado está detrás de una ola de intentos por sabotear la indústria (entre otras) que coinciden con el referéndum de la independencia.

Los trabajadores en huelga han tenido negociaciones con la dirección de Eulen que ha mostrado poco interés en satisfacer las demandas de salario de los trabajadores, alimentando rumores en Cataluña, que algo más siniestro puede estar en marcha.

La Generalitat siempre ha reclamado sin éxito que la gestión de El Prat pase de Madrid a Cataluña..

Después de todo, Eulen está a cargo de la seguridad privada en más de 30 aeropuertos de toda España, sin embargo, El Prat de Barcelona es el único aeropuerto que experimenta una acción industrial que involucra a sus trabajadores este verano.

Además, la compañía tiene lazos muy estrechos con el gobernante Partido Popular (PP): los mayores accionistas de Eulen incluyen a los hermanos del ex ministro de Defensa de España, Jaime Mayor Oreja, e incluso se le ha acusado de pagar ‘comisiones’ ilegales al Partido Popular’.

El PP ha amenazado reiteradamente con castigar financieramente a Cataluña por sus aspiraciones separatistas.

Ataque a un neumático de un Bus Turístico  destacado en Titulares por Todo el MundoImage result for tourist bus sabotaged in barcelona

La semana pasada jóvenes de ARRAN dañaron ligeramente un autobús turístico en Barcelona como parte de la campaña contra la saturación de turistas en la ciudad.. La noticia daba vuelto de todo el mundo, promovida por los medios españoles. ¿Pero es mera casualidad que la peligrosa revuelta anti turistas estalla justo antes que el Referéndum, después de tantos años de soportarlos?  ¿O puede ser relevante los rumores del ‘GAL mediàtic’ del Estado con un ´Pressupost il-limitada’ policial que incluye ‘Infiltracions en … entitats sobiranistes’.? ver abajo.

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