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Cops accuse us of ‘Aggravated Activism’ – Ok! we take it and we own it

By thecollective at Anarchist Newsand Netpol via thefreeonline

From Freedom News UK Anarchist Bookfair workshop supports call for celebration of all the “Aggravated Activists”.

Participants at a workshop organised by Netpol at this year’s Anarchist Bookfair in London have supported a proposal to take on, own and embrace the new police label of “aggravated activism” – by proclaiming and promoting 15 February 2023…

From Freedom News UK

Anarchist Bookfair workshop supports call for celebration of all the “Aggravated Activists”

Participants at a workshop organised by Netpol at this year’s Anarchist Bookfair in London have supported a proposal to take on, own and embrace the new police label of “aggravated activism” – by proclaiming and promoting 15 February 2023 as Aggravated Activist Day.

This is a call to publicly celebrate the many campaigns and community initiatives, influenced by anarchist principles, who are trying to assist working class and racialised communities to survive and to resist a government that is interested only in the interests of the rich and powerful.

The idea is to challenge state propaganda portraying this kind of practical organising as automatically a threat – what the police are describing as “activities in furtherance of ideology”.

Lost in the Matrix

Netpol has always believed in talking directly to campaigners at risk of becoming the targets of intensive police surveillance.

That is why we held a workshop, on Saturday 17 September at Toynbee Hall, to share information at Britain’s largest anarchist gathering. Netpol explained how the Matrix – more precisely the “threshold and terminology matrix” – is the method the police have adopted for determining who is categorised as an “aggravated activist” and at what level: low, moderate or substantial.

This Odious Global System! – Capitalism is …. by Paul Cudenec

Posted on September 21, 2022 by winter oak by Paul Cudenec /Audio version via thefrteeonline

Throughout my adult life I have tended to describe the thing to which I am primarily opposed as “capitalism”.Over the last couple of years, however, I have started to wonder whether this is quite the right word.

Not only does it hinder communication with people used to different political terminologies, but it is looking increasingly outmoded as the powers-that-be try to push us into a harsh new totalitarian era.

I have gradually stopped using the term and, when I share pieces of my older writing which contain the word, I feel slightly awkward and don’t quite know how to reply to people who feel it is not altogether appropriate.

Facing up to the crime in progress | winter oak

The funny thing, though, is that my views have not actually changed. The entity which I have spent my life combatting remains the same, regardless of the label I might stick on it.

It is not really an “-ism”, an abstract ideological concept which mysteriously casts our societies under its motivational spell, but a real and physical system, built on capital, which is maintained by real and physical players.

Capitalism is…..

It is an arrangement by which a tiny minority of extremely wealthy people possess all the power and privilege in the world at the expense of the vast majority of us, whom they regard as both dangerous and dispensible.

It is accumulation for the few, dispossession for the many.

It is a plutocracy, a dictatorship of the ultra-rich hiding behind the rhetoric of democracy while knowing that real democracy would be incompatible with its ongoing supremacy and thus doing all it can to prevent it from ever flourishing.

Uprising Intensifies in Haiti as Fuel Costs Continue to Rise / by It’s Going Down

Report on ongoing rebellion in Haiti as fuel costs continue to rise and the city of Port-au-Prince is barricaded amidst growing class conflict

— Sep 19, 22 from Abolition Media by : Its going Down via thefreeonline

The Haitian government announced last week that it will be doubling the already absurdly high fuel prices in the country. The fuel prices are but one of many reasons behind their rebellion.

However, this latest offense has kicked off an accelerated round of rebel action. Youth have taken to the streets and have barricaded Port-au-Prince.

There's civil unrest in Haiti as people hit the streets to protest inflation and fuel costspic.twitter.com/RBMZmlnxi1
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) September 18, 2022

Multiple banks have been burned, while the homes of politicians and their bourgeois supporters have been attacked.

On September 15^th, Haitian rebels in Port-au-Prince stormed the offices of State media and set fire to three vehicles.

Haitian fight back a always. #FreeHaiti https://t.co/3ZhK22nTV9
— Madame Boukman – Justice 4 Haiti 🇭🇹 (@madanboukman) September 13, 2022

They also expropriated food and other supplies from two warehouses in Les Gonaïves: one belonging to Caritas, a Catholic NGO; and the other belonging to the World Food Program.

REVEALED: How the US and UK SABOTAGED PEACE DEAL in Ukraine

Sept 18, 2022 via Zara Ali By Lee Camp at Mint Press News via thefreeonline

A new report shows that Russia and Ukraine had negotiated a peace deal back in April, but the U.S. and U.K. intervened to stop it.

So Russia and Ukraine wanted to end the war four months ago.

Report: Russia, Ukraine Tentatively Agreed on Peace Deal in April – scheerpost.com

They were going to end the horror and death traumatizing the Ukrainian people but NATO refused because they wanted their proxy war to continue.

Let’s take a step back a moment and think about this.

Let’s forget the fact that the U.S. and NATO helped create the war in Ukraine by breaking their promise to Russia not to expand NATO.

Let’s forget that the U.S. perpetrated the 2014 coup in Ukraine.

Let’s forget the fact that many top US officials, including former CIA head Leon Panetta, have admitted that this is a proxy war between the U.S., NATO, and Russia.

Let’s forget the fact that Biden and Congress have sent tens of billions of dollars of weapons and aid to an army that is at least partially Nazis who don’t do a very good job of hiding that they’re Nazis.

And let’s forget the fact that even U.S. propaganda mouthpieces CBS and CNN have admitted that only about 30% of the billions of dollars of weapons have made it to the frontlines in Ukraine. The rest has been stolen and sold on the black market to terrorists and people who like using grenade launchers as coasters. Monetary aid to Ukraine is now around $50B.