Today's Topics:
1. Philadelphia: Tearing Down Walls By ANA (pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. anarkismo.net: The struggle continues by MACG
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, AFED (From the London group): SOLIDARITY DEMO FOR
EXARCHEIA (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Czech, AFED: Hole in the wall #1 - Review of a magazine
intended for people in prison [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
September 7, 2019 | 11 am (10:00 warm up yoga) | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park ---- The
group Philadelphia Anarchist Black Cross presents our second annual " Running down the
walls " (RDTW)! Join us for another revolutionary 5km run / hike / bike / skate and a day
of solidarity. If you would like to participate in light yoga and warm-up stretches
before, please arrive around 10 am and bring a mat if you can. ---- Running is not
required! You can also walk, bike, skate or skate. 5 km is two laps in the park and a walk
will take around 45 to 60 minutes. Light meals and socializing will take place in the park
later. ---- This year's event is co-sponsored by Never Give Up! - A project to release the
remaining incarcerated members of MOVE 9 , and to provide long term support after release.
Following the release of his parents, Mike Africa Jr. founded Never Give Up! to ease the
financial strain of rebuilding life after decades of imprisonment. When his uncle Chuck
Africa overcame colon cancer, the project aligned with the broader and ongoing fight
against cancer.
The MOVE organization never gave up. Not even after her house was flooded, gas-poisoned,
and riddled with bullets. Not even after the police installed explosives and let them burn
alive. Not after PADOC murdered Phil and Merle Africa.
After 40 years in prison and never giving up her beliefs and others, Debbie was released
on probation on June 16, 2018, shortly thereafter followed by Mike Africa Sr. on October
23. Janet and Janine were released on May 25, 2019 and then Eddie on June 21. The next to
go on parole are Delbert in September and Chuck in November.
As supporters, we never give up either! Philadelphia RDTW 2019 is dedicated to amplifying
their voice, raising them in their struggles, and maintaining post-release material support.
If you are unable to attend the event, or would like to make an additional contribution,
please sponsor one participant outside or inside the prison or one of each. Contact us for
more sponsorship information.
Proceeds will be split between the Warchest program and the Never Give Up! . The ABCF
Warchest program sends monthly grants to political prisoners and prisoners of war who have
insufficient, little or no financial support.
Read more and register here: phillyabc.wordpress.com/rdtw/
phillyabc.wordpress.com
Translation> Brulego
Related Content:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2018/08/20/your-libertem-o-move-9-libertem-all-prisoners-politics/
anarchist news agency-ana
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It is these things: Liberal arrogance, the danger of recession, accelerating climate
change and the Fascist threat that, together, form significant elements of the political
terrain in Australia today. And it is these things that will guide the MACG in the next
few years. ---- The struggle continues ---- The dust is settling in Australia after Labor
lost the Federal election everybody expected it to win. The Liberals are triumphant and,
for now, united behind Scott Morrison. Meanwhile, Labor is in shock and has retreated into
its shell, after signalling that it will be dumping the policies that drew the most heat
from the Liberals and the media. Meanwhile, the Greens, having improved their vote and
retained all their seats, confounded their mainstream critics and have emerged with a
restored reputation.
The immediate temptation for the political Left is to trim its sails and adapt to the new
conventional wisdom. Fortunately, many have resisted this. Instead, they are angry at the
ALP for running a complacent campaign and under-estimating the push-back there would be
from vested interests. In a way, it is a small-scale equivalent of Labor's mistake over
bank nationalisation in 1949. Labor approached its policies as technocratic, mildly
progressive reforms, but the political Right saw them as a fundamental assault on their
power base. The visceral anger of millionaire retiree investors and the genuine fear of
coal mining communities for their future swept Labor's technocratic reforms out of the
public arena. The media campaign waged by the Murdoch press, the Liberals and Clive Palmer
took votes off a Labor Party that doesn't know how to fight.
How should Anarchists react?
Firstly, we know there's no Parliamentary road to libertarian communism, so we're not
going there. Secondly, we're not in the business of giving advice to the Labor Party on
how to run its campaigns better. And thirdly, we're not going to say "Oh, goody, the
Greens are on the way back." Instead, we analyse the political landscape because we want
to advance the argument for building an Anarchist Communist movement that can contribute
to the working class struggle. We want to know what to do next.
And in deciding what to do next, we have to assess what's coming next. To what events will
we need to respond?
The most immediate thing is that the Liberals reckon they're invincible. If they can spend
three years consuming themselves in internal warfare while pursuing policies most people
detest, and still win an election, their arrogance will know no bounds. They will go for
the jugular on policy and ignore its unpopularity. Similarly, the Liberal Right and its
noisy backers in the Murdoch press and on Sky after dark will decide that party discipline
is for sissies. They will pursue their pet culture war issues and, if Morrison decides
they need to tone it down, they'll set out to nobble him like they nobbled Turnbull. If a
good election campaign can get people to forget the previous three years of disaster, the
next campaign can get the coming three years forgotten.
Beyond that, dark economic storm clouds are brewing. The Australian economy is slowing to
a stall, while real wages haven't grown in the last few years and don't look like growing
any time soon. Meanwhile, the trade war between the United States and China is deepening.
This threatens to plunge the world into recession, one which would particularly hit
Australia, given its great reliance on trade with China. It's been nearly thirty years
since Australia had a recession, so most people with jobs now didn't have one then. A
recession now would be a massive political shock as well as an economic one.
Next, and contrary to the fatuous Right wing commentator Andrew Bolt, climate change is an
issue that won't go away. In fact, as climate change accelerates, so will both the
environmental disasters it brings and the movement of young people against the climate
emergency. The next hot summer will definitely make climate change impossible to ignore
and might possibly kill the Great Barrier Reef. Already, Morrison is copping unprecedented
flak from leaders of South Pacific island countries. He has met a problem he wasn't
expecting. His bullying tactics in protecting the interests of coal mining companies are
opening South Pacific doors to China and undermining Australia's imperialist interests there.
Finally, Fascism is continuing to rise worldwide. Open Fascist parties have large
delegations in a number of European Parliaments, while crypto-Fascist parties are even
junior partners in some governments. Meanwhile, Fascists have come to power atop
democratic governments in places like Brazil, India and the Philippines. And in the United
States, Donald Trump seems to be doing his best to encourage its growth, even as Fascist
groups on the ground suffer setbacks in the wake of the continuing fallout from the
murderous Unite the Right mobilisation in Charlottesville in 2017. Here in Australia,
while the wider Fascist milieu is broadening, Fascist groups have continued to have
difficulties.
It is these things: Liberal arrogance, the danger of recession, accelerating climate
change and the Fascist threat that, together, form significant elements of the political
terrain in Australia today. And it is these things that will guide the MACG in the next
few years.
IF YOU DON'T FIGHT, YOU LOSE
*Article included in "The Anvil", Newsletter of Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group
(MACG), issue 8/4, July-August 2019.
Related Link: https://melbacg.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/anvil-201908-v-web.pdf
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31535
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On the 2nd of September we held a solidarity demo outside the Greek embassy, which got
about 30 people out on a Monday afternoon. We handed out copies of the Anarchist
Federation's statement on the brutal attacks on immigrants and anarchists by the Greek
state, although the embassy refused to allow us to deliver a copy to their staff.
We would like to thank everyone who came, including the people over at Anarcha Feminism
who helped us promote it. Solidarity with our comrades suffering in Greece and down with
the false borders used to divide us!
http://afed.org.uk/solidarity-demo-for-exarcheia/
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Message: 4
Experience with detention in the police efforts to criminalize the anarchist movement did
not wait long and one of the outcomes is a new magazine looking for its target group among
people behind bars. The state of most of them is determined by socio-economic
relationships within the capitalist machinery that pushes them and places them in prison
where they are. The poorer you are and protect yourself from having a different skin color
than white, the more likely you are to be here. ---- But it is not just a magazine for
prisoners, Hole in the Wall has the ambition to be a space for the texts of prisoners
themselves and released. However, it is somewhat naïve to say that "those who are already
in that situation know that the walls that surround them need to be demolished." Such a
level of awareness would be fine, but not yet from this world.
Inside the issue you will find, besides "prison poetry", a critique of the labor
exploitation of prisoners at Všehrdy prison; a readable narrative of the experience of
commencing punishment; an interesting interview with a prisoner about the conditions and
practice of prison employment and his very ridiculous remuneration; a theoretical
reflection by Susan L. Brown on the meaning of wage labor (in fact slavery) and how the
job would look free; interview with the Berlin Solidarity Group of the Unions Prisoners on
employment practices in German prisons and on possibilities for external support; a
description of the three-week strike of prisoners in the US in 2018; in a jail written
review of London's Waylander after the Stars, and finally an article taken from the a2larm
about the solitary torture of prisoners in the United States and protests against him.
The hole in the wall is definitely a unique achievement and I hope to be able to write a
review for the next issue soon, although it is known that many of the zines and magazines
produced from the bottom will often not reach the second issue. But the support of this
project and the effort of a wider circle of readers "from outside" to get it "in" to
fulfill its purpose will be crucial. If you know someone who is rotting in a hole, send
them at least one copy, which will undoubtedly find their way to others.
Hole in the Wall No. 1 May 2019. 20 pages A4. Download at
https://abcnews.noblogs.org/files/2019/05/DIRA1-final.pdf .
https://www.afed.cz/text/7019/dira-ve-zdi-c-1
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