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Channel Zero: A 24-7 Horizontal Anarchist Radio Station

August 12, 2017 Chris Steele, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
By Chris Steele. Channel Zero is a newly formed network of several anarchist and anti-authoritarian English language podcasts that launched on August 9, 2017. The 24-7 audio stream and website was organized to make radical podcasts more accessible. Current shows include: The Final Straw Radio, Kite Line Radio, Rust Belt Abolition Radio, the Crimethinc Ex-Worker Podcast, SubMedia, The Rebel Beat, A-Radio Berlin, The Danthropology Podcast, the Solecast, Which Side Podcast, Resonance: an Anarchist Audio Distro and the IGDCAST. According to Channel Zero: Our goal is to expand the reach of anarchist analysis into a larger and more public audience, within a horizontally run organization that is lead by the podcasters themselves.

Who Will Stand Up To Trump? We Will!

December 21, 2016 Keith McHenry, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
By Keith McHenry. We the people will stand up to Trump. Not Cohen’s list of politicians and leaders who have been benefiting from the corrupt system that put Trump in power. The post-inauguration chaos could well take America and the world into uncharted territory, so creating a strategy on how to transform America into a sustainable, post-capitalist society will take imagination. Beware of groups seeking to hijack the anti-Trump movement for their own benefit. You can become disheartened if you spend energy supporting an organization only to discover that the group, presenting itself as the “vanguard of the revolution” or as a well intentioned (and well financed) reform organization, is more interested in its own well-being, in “organization building,” than in transforming society. A lot of these groups will try to recruit you as the crisis deepens, but you don’t need them. There are things we ourselves can do to prepare, to fight back.

“Unruly Equality”: A Brief History Of Anarchism

October 6, 2016 Andrew Cornell, www.towardfreedom.com ,
By Andrew Cornell for Towards Freedom - In recent years anarchists have played prominent and controversial roles in radical social movements, domestically and internationally. Yet discussing the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary anarchism, in relation to other sectors of the Left, has proven challenging. The very terms anarchy, anarchism, and anarchist are so overcoded with meanings and burdened by associations that people frequently talk past one another, or resort to awkward attempts at humor, even when attempting to discuss them in good faith.

Anarchist And Intersectional Feminist Who Inspired May Day

May 1, 2016 Laura Flanders, www.commondreams.org , , ,
By Laura Flanders for Commondreams. Workers shouldn't strike and go out and starve, but strike and remain in, and take possession, said Lucy parsons. Lifelong partner of Albert parsons, one of the American Labor Leaders, most associated with the founding of the American May Day tradition. lucy_parsonsLucy Parsons was of Mexican American, African American, and Native American Descent. She was born into slavery and she was an intersectional thinker and activist a century before the term was coined. Her work after emancipation led her directly into conflict with the Ku Klux Clan and into a lifelong partnership with radical typographer and organizer Albert Parsons.

Anniversary Of The Paris Commune, 1871

March 18, 2016 The Days of the Paris Commune, www.daysofthecommune.com , ,
By The Days of the Paris Commune, The Paris Commune was 72 days when the working class seized power in Paris and put in place their own government. During the Commune workers occupied their own city, creating a progressive democratic assembly from March 18 to May 28, 1871 before being brutally destroyed by the French Government.The commune has been talked about and analyzed by many for the lessons it taught. We thought on this anniversary we'd remember some of the lessons of the Paris Commune.

Don’t Count On Elections: Organize Or Die

January 24, 2016 Jean Allen and Frank Castro, www.medium.com , , , , ,
By Jean Allen and Frank Castro for Medium. Voting is a limited expression of popular will, choosing which parties or candidates come into political office. In strict terms, it is nothing more or less than the choice of which politician you want to delegate your power to at a specific point in time. Oligarchy and Plutocracy. Voting is not only limited as an act, it is limited in its influence and powers. Though there have been major and recent concerns about the capture of the state by a small portion of the people, this is a feature, not a bug. The very system of representative government is designed to limit popular engagement. This fear of truly popular government can be seen in the desperate fretting our esteemed Founding Fathers had as they designed the Constitution.

Food Sovereignty: This is What Anarchy Looks Like

December 27, 2015 Boyan Atzev, www.resilience.org , , ,
By Boyan Atzev for Resilience. The principles of food sovereignty are best followed in anarchy. The definition states that one should have direct control and choice over the kind of food one consumes and produces. The beauty of anarchy is that rather than worrying about a large scale, complex, centralized society one can focus on the immediate matters of one’s community. In case of peasants' movements these immediate matters are exactly the production and distribution of food locally. The knowledge coming from direct involvement with food production ensures well informed appropriate decisions made directly by the peasants based on their immediate needs.

Black Bloc: The Activist’s Militia

November 22, 2015 Awakened Media, www.thefifthcolumnnews.org , , ,
By Awakened Media for The Fifth Column News. Seattle, Washington (TFC) – A Black Bloc is not a group or organization; in fact, it is a tactic that has greatly evolved since its beginnings in Germany, 1980. Many view the participants as hooligans and violent Anarchists. Some are there only to agitate and be destructive. Some are there to express their anger towards the buildings that signify our addictions and act as a reminder to the ruling class. But, most are there to show solidarity and provide security for the peaceful protesters. They are prepared to fight back against law enforcement when they decide to attack peaceful demonstrators. The dress code is black head to toe for many reasons. To show solidarity and to allow anonymity for those who choose to take certain actions. This allows the Bloc to prevent arrests and “unarrest” those who have been detained. Behind the black uniform and mask are people just like you and I.

Anarchists Have Taken Over A Building In Athens To House Refugees

September 29, 2015 Melpomeni Maragkidou, www.vice.com , ,
By Melpomeni Maragkidou - A huge banner reading "Refugees Welcome Home" is draped across the front of a derelict building in Exarchia, Athens – a district that's generally regarded as the spiritual home to the city's anarchist movement. On Tuesday morning, members of the Anti-authoritarian Movement Athens (AK) occupied a former university dining hall, with the aim of transforming it into a temporary residence for refugees. They want to fix up the space and make it fit to accommodate refugee and migrant families arriving in Athens. Crossing a rubble-strewn courtyard, I entered the building to find members of AK making plans for an open meeting later that day. They offered to show me around and explained that before any refugees can be housed, they'll need to work together to clean, disinfect and make the place habitable.

Radicalized: A Revolutionary Documentary Film

July 26, 2015 Patti Beers, theantimedia.org , , ,
By Patti Beers in The AntiMedia. Los Angeles, CA - On October 1, 2011 I showed up for the revolution. That summer, I had been watching the Young Turks on Youtube and had come to the conclusion that Obama was not the great savior that was sold to us. It was clear to me— with Congress completely sold out to corporate interests and the Supreme Court’s-then recent, shady ruling regarding corporate personhood—that if Obama was not for the people, then revolution—peaceful if possible—was the only way to make things right. Looking back, I see myself as having a naive, reformist perspective. In college, I got an “A+” in Political Science without any effort. I had no idea how much education on politics, specifically on the subject of anarchy, that I was about to get from the Occupy experience and the events that happened after.

The Mother Of Nonviolent Direct Action: Lucy Parsons

March 16, 2015 William Loren Katz, www.zinnedproject.org , , , ,
She called for the use of nonviolence that would have broad meaning for the world’s protest movements. She told delegates workers shouldn’t “strike and go out and starve, but to strike and remain in and take possession of the necessary property of production.” A year later Mahatma Gandhi, speaking to fellow Indians at the Johannesburg Empire Theater, advocated nonviolence to fight colonialism, but he was still 25 years away from leading fellow Indians in nonviolent marches against India’s British rulers. Eventually Lucy Parsons’ principle traveled to the U.S. sit-down strikers of the 1930s, Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the antiwar movements that followed, and finally to today’s Arab Spring and the Occupy movements.

Protesters Occupy Athens Law School

March 15, 2015 Staff, www.worldbulletin.net , ,
A group of 150 anarchists has occupied the main School of Law building in downtown Athens demanding the release of convicted Greek leftists and the repeal of anti-terror laws. According to Greek media, individuals stormed the building at around 8 a.m. local time, forcing students and others present to flee the premises. Protestors are demanding the release of jailed leftist bomber Savvas Xiros along with the abolition of high-security “Type C” prisons (Type C) and Greek counter-terrorism legislation. Similar occupations are also underway at the offices of the ruling Syriza party on the island of Crete and at the offices of left-wing Thessaloniki newspaper “Avgi.” A similar occupation took place earlier this week at the headquarters the Syriza party in Athens in a protest over the construction of Type C prisons and laws concerning terrorism.

Anarchists Storm Greek Ruling Party HQ

March 9, 2015 AFP, www.france24.com , , , ,
Anarchists occupied Greece's ruling party headquarters on Sunday in support of hunger strikers protesting against conditions in the country's maximum-security jails. A group of 50 anarchists burst into the offices of the radical left-wing Syriza party in downtown Athens on Sunday, forcing staff to leave the building, party officials said. "I was inside my office giving my first official interview to a radio station," the party's new spokeswoman Rania Svigou told AFP. "I had locked the door so I wouldn't be disturbed. Then I heard banging and shouting." she said. "I finished the interview and went out to see what was happening and they told us to get out," she added. Svigou said party workers did not call the police. Syriza has often criticised heavy-handed policing of anti-austerity protests in the past.

Announcing To Change Everything!

January 16, 2015 CrimethInc, www.crimethinc.com ,
After months of labor and coordination, we are proud to present our most ambitious effort yet. To Change Everything is a new multimedia overview of the anarchist project, updated for the 21st century. It is a primer for the curious, a polemic for the entrenched, a point of departure for everyone who longs for another world. To Change Everything includes a free full-color 48-page print publication, a video bySubmedia.tv, a responsive website featuring the text in 6 languages (with 14 more to come), and a sticker and poster campaign. Collectives in 19 countries across five continents have prepared two dozen different versions of the project, each tailored to match the local context.

Thousands March In Barcelona In Support Of Anarchist Prisoners

December 28, 2014 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , ,
Thousands of people took the streets of Barcelona Saturday to demand the release of 11 anarchists arrested by the police last week. The demonstration comes after a judge sentenced seven of the 11 anarchists to serve prison time without bail. The remaining will be released on probation. Tens of thousands of people also marched in Madrid in solidarity with the Barcelona protests. Anarchist groups consider the ongoing investigation on the 2012-2013 bomb plots – dubbed Operation Pandora – as an excuse to crack down on the strong Spanish anarchist movement. Critics have pointed at the fact that authorities arrested the 11 activists and then claimed they had found evidence after the raid of their possible involvement in the plots, which shows their arrest was not based on previously obtained elements. Lawmaker David Companyon from the local Parliament has accused the government of using Operation Pandora and the arrest of the 11 activists as stunt to garner support for the recently approved “gag law,” which was received with massive demonstrations and widespread criticism over concerns that it will lead to government-sanctioned human rights abuses.
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