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| | Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 3:19 pm - Our Campaign Continues! pozor_vostoka **Dear friends and comrades,**Last week, the Khimki hostages, Maxim Solopov and Alexei Gaskarov, were released from police custody on their own recognizance by the Khimki municipal court.The fact that we secured their release is important, but it is still not a complete victory. We must redouble our efforts and continue our campaign because:* The criminal case against Alexei and Maxim has not been closed. If they are tried and convicted, they could face up to seven years in prison.* Prosecutors have now formally charged Alexei and Maxim (with disorderly conduct) and are demanding that the activists be returned to jail pending trial.* Prosecutors have now added other social activists to the list of possible defendants and suspects in their investigation of the July 28 demonstration in Khimki. If charged and convicted, these activists could also receive lengthy terms in prison.* The law enforcement officials responsible for the coercion and torture of witnesses during the course of the investigation have not yet been charged or punished for their actions.* In the recent past, there have been cases in Russia where an accused person has been released pending trial (the same procedure that led to the release of Maxim and Alexei last week) only to later wind up behind bars again with a hefty prison sentence. For example, the Siberian trade union activist Valentin Urusov was released on his own recognizance after an appellate court overturned his conviction (on a fabricated drugs possession charge) in May 2009, but in June of the same year the original lower court reaffirmed its verdict and sentenced him to six years in prison. A higher court later reduced this sentence only to five years.Therefore, we must force the Russian authorities to drop all charges and close their criminal investigation.As before, we call on you to join us in the struggle for Alexei and Maxim’s freedom. That is why we renew our appeal for you to join us in the International Days of Action scheduled for November 12–15, when we will be demanding that the authorities close their criminal case and free Alexei and Maxim unconditionally.Campaign for the Release of the Khimki HostagesTelephone: +7 (915) 053-5912E-mail: info@khimkibattle.orgWebsite: http://khimkibattle.org [fear the sexiness] Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 6:15 pm corvus I just saw a post on RevLeft by nachie. It reminded me of this community which never really got off the ground. Oh, well. Less drama, more stupid. Or is it the other way around? [fear the sexiness] Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 12:13 pm - A CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION pozor_vostoka A Call for International Days of Action in Support of Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim SolopovSeptember 17–20, 2010On July 28, 2010, more than two hundred young antifascists and anarchists carried out a spontaneous demonstration outside the town administration building in Khimki, a suburb of Moscow. They demonstrated in defense of the Khimki Forest, which was at that time in the process of beings cutting down for the needs of big business. The demonstration, during which several windows were broken, received a great deal of public attention. The authorities responded with a wave of repressions. The day after the demonstration, two well-known social activists, Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov, were arrested. They are now threatened with up to seven years in prison for disorderly conduct, although there is no evidence of their complicity in illegal activities. Meanwhile, the police continue to hunt down and harass other activists, especially those involved in the antifascist movement.( Read more...Collapse )We ask you to hold protests outside of Russian Federation embassies, consulates, trade missions, and cultural centers, as well as at public events and concerts connected to Russia. We also ask you to send faxes, e-mails, and protest letters to the court, the prosecutor’s office, and the country’s political leadership. In the very nearfuture we will inform you of addresses where you can send these protests as well as more details about the ongoing repressions in Russia. Look for this information on our website http://khimkibattle.org in English, German, Russian, and French.Join our campaign!Campaign for the Release of the Khimki Hostages+7 (915) 053-5912 * info@khimkibattle.org * http://khimkibattle.orghttp://khimkibattle.org/?p=302〈=en [fear the sexiness] Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 8:10 pm - 15,000 Strong Demonstration in Montreal Against the Budget flintultrasparc a report from Union Communiste Libertaire (UCL)Against privatization and price increases: ONLY THE STRUGGLE PAYS!On April 1st 2010, some 15,000 people descended on the business district in Montreal at the call of more than 95 unions, popular, feminist and student groups. Is this the first stage of a response against the Liberal budget? Only time will tell. In any case, it was a nice demonstration--a popular grand procession, very diverse and militant (at least in discourse).We now know that the budget tabled on March 30th by Minister Bachand introduced a host of measures, each more regressive than the one before. The introduction of new fees for healthcare or the rapid growth of sales tax (QST) are examples. The rich will fare quite well, as usual. Nothing in this budget calls into question their privilege and their little schemes to stash their money in tax-free havens. Again, we are required to sacrifice for them. Enough!( Read more...Collapse ) [fear the sexiness] Thursday, June 25th, 2009 3:14 pm - Red and Black is the New Black and Gold Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 12:09 pm Thursday, November 6th, 2008 5:37 pm Friday, May 23rd, 2008 8:51 pm - The SacRed War 1:06 pm - Greeting to My Comrades! redstar08 Hello to all my comrades! I have just joined the community and I would just like to alert you to A community I just created.red_revolt. I need a couple of maintainers and members please consider thank you.current mood: anxious [3 firebombs xXx fear the sexiness] Sunday, February 24th, 2008 6:50 pm - radical pedagogy workshop seasontoseason Radical Pedagogy Workshop Series • A series of monthly four-hour workshops on various topics in radical pedagogical theory and practice. Organized by the Anarchist Free University in Toronto.Workshop 1: Marxism and Education • When: Sunday 24 February ◦ Time: 1 - 5pm • Where: Centre for Social Innovation. 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 120. (Spadina between Dundas and Queen) CONFIRMED • Organizers/Presenters: Maggie Flynn and Christian Whittall • Contact: christian@anarchistu.org[ok, I just realized that this one, on Marxism and Education, already happened, earlier today. But there will be more. click the link above where it says "radical pedagogy workshop series" for more info on upcoming workshops.] [fear the sexiness] Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 5:38 am - WE WANT REBEL MUSIC - POLITICAL PUNK BLOG/ZINE xinsurgencex From the COMMON CAUSE BENEFIT myspace page: WE WANT REBEL MUSIC is a new blog/zine dedicated to political punk. A work in progress that will have interviews, reviews, show info and who the heck know what else... Please check it out. So far there are interviews with Broadcast Zero, The Rebel Spell, The Fallout and Knucklehead... Cheers! [fear the sexiness] Sunday, February 17th, 2008 10:19 pm - a new community theoryquotes seasontoseason YOU HAVE ALWAYS ALREADY JOINED US.a new community, theoryquotes.(kind of like the wildly popular literaryquotes, but with theory.)Some may think that theory is not well suited to being quoted at all, but quoting theory is an interesting exercise and allows us to appreciate the moments when style, wit, vitriol, or personality shine in theoretical prose. This is literature, and can be as affecting as fiction or poetry. [fear the sexiness] Saturday, January 5th, 2008 8:24 pm Sunday, December 9th, 2007 10:18 am - Have you checked out this anarchist podcast yet? Friday, April 27th, 2007 2:43 pm - Comunicado sobre a manifestação antiautoritária contra o fascismo e o capitalismo. chapeleirolouco Com o intuito de protestar contra a crescente visibilidade da extrema-direita e a sua componente racista e xenófoba, contra a cada vez maior exploração capitalista, contra a precariedade social imposta pelo capitalismo, contra o crescente totalitarismo democrático, pela liberdade, solidariedade e dignidade humana, por um mundo sem fronteiras uma plataforma de grupos e indivíduos de várias tendências anti autoritárias, anarquistas, anti capitalistas e antifascistas convocou para o dia 25 de Abril pelas 18:00H na praça da figueira uma manifestação anti autoritária. A manifestação reuniu cerca de 400 pessoas que percorreram o Rossio, a Rua do Carmo e a Rua Garrett até ao Largo de Camões num ambiente contestatário mas festivo e sem incidentes. Muitos transeuntes aplaudiram e aderiram à manifestação. Após um breve período em que a manifestação permaneceu no largo Camões esta continuou espontaneamente pela Rua Garrett em direcção ao Rossio. A meio da Rua do Carmo, duas hordas de elementos do corpo de intervenção da PSP encurralaram os manifestantes na rua fechando as saídas e sem qualquer ordem ou aviso de dispersão começaram a agredir brutal e indiscriminadamente manifestantes, transeuntes e até mesmo turistas.Com isto a polícia não tentou dispersar ninguém, mas por outro lado quis bater, espancar e atacar os manifestantes. Pessoas que caíram no chão indefesas foram ainda agredidas por vários polícias à bastonada e ao pontapé. Aqueles que tentaram fugir foram perseguídas por toda abaixa e muitos transeuntes e lojistas somaram-se aos manifestantes no fundo da Rua do Carmo em protesto contra a brutalidade policial. As únicas agressões à polícia foram em legítima defesa, que é um direito ao qual não renunciamos. Foram detidas doze pessoas de forma bastante violenta e é impossível contabilizar todos os feridos entre manifestantes e pessoas alheias ao protesto. Foi mobilizado um aparato policial desmedido (dezenas de carrinhas do corpo de intervenção da PSP com certamente mais de uma centena de elementos) que impôs o terror na baixa de Lisboa por várias horas Um grupo de indivíduos que se queria juntar à manifestação e que tinha ficado para trás foi cercado e escoltado até ao cais do sodré (possivelmente pela sua cor de pele). Os detidos foram levados para a esquadra da 1ª divisão da PSP na Rua Gomes Freire onde foi negada qualquer informação aos seus amigos e durante muito tempo foi impedida a entrada aos advogados. Houve uma tentativa de levar os detidos a constituírem-se arguídos sem a presença dos advogados o que é ilegal. Em solidariedade com os detidos cerca de 50 pessoas concentraram-se em frente à esquadra aguardando a sua transferência para os calabouços do comando da PSP de Lisboa. Mesmo em frente à esquadra a polícia continuou com o abuso de poder e expulsou as pessoas aos empurrões impedindo que estas pudessem continuar a demonstrar a sua solidariedade. O que tem vindo a ser noticiado nos variados órgãos de comunicação social está repleto de incoerências e desvios daquilo que realmente aconteceu na baixa de Lisboa. Nomeadamente, a confusão com outras manifestações, a aceitação da versão policial dos acontecimentos e a necessidade de caracterizar como ilegal uma característica natural das pessoas que é o ajuntamento e a manifestação, que a democracia diz defender. Num período em que foram muitos os ajuntamentos,manifestações, acções e encontros este era também um protesto de repúdio aos tempos que se vivem e aos ataques constantes do poder às pessoas. Caricatamente é no dia 25 de Abril que a polícia defende cartazes de partidos fascistas e ataca manifestações antifascistas. Num momento em que já se sabia que os cravos estão murchos todos estes acontecimentos servem para o reconfirmar. Plataforma antiautoritária contra o fascismo e o capitalismo.pictures+ pictures++ picturesvideo disclaimer: sorry the text is in portuguese, but you an still see the pictures, and theres a link in english '25 de abrill' for those who not know what it means can, at least have a very general idea.about the protest: on april 25 there was a anti-authoritarin, anti-fascist, anti-racist manif in lisbon (portugal) that went very well joing people with various political tendencies and ages. then a hour later or something like that the people who remained longer on the place the manif ended spontainiously decided to do the same traject they did before, but backwards. needless to say we where 1/4 of the people we where on the first manif. when we reached rua do carmo we where blocked by the police and couldn't run. 12 people we're arrested, and many many people beaten, including pepolpe who were only on the street watching the manif go by. (sorry for my english) [3 firebombs xXx fear the sexiness] Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 1:02 pm - An Anarchist Study of the Rotinonshón:ni Polity flintultrasparc "Where License Reigns With All Impunity"The traditional society of the Rotinonshón:ni (Iroquois), "The People of the Longhouse," was a densely settled, matrilineal, communal, and extensively horticultural society. The Rotinonshón:ni formed a confederacy of five nations. Generations before historical contact with Europeans, these nations united through the Kaianere'kó:wa into the same polity and ended blood feuding without economic exploitation, stratification, or the formation of a centralized state.IntroductionHow Peace Came to the Rotinonshón:ni"One Bowl": The Communal Economy of the Rotinonshón:ni"We are left to answer for our women"The Beaver Wars, which were Not Only about the Fur TradeKaianere'kó:wa as Constitution of a Stateless Polity?Anarcho-IndigenismBibliographyGlossary: Concepts, Nations, People, PlacesEnd Notes( Read the IntroductionCollapse ) current mood: accomplished [fear the sexiness] Saturday, January 27th, 2007 6:32 am - New Reading Group papakat23 Ever just get the urge to talk about a book you just read?Do you think you have something to contribute to others?Are you disappointed with the anti-intellectual streak that's so prevalent?Do you think that radical thought is more than just mental masturbation - that without revolutionary theories and ideas there can be no revolution?Then come join us at dialecticus! We're a new reading group and we're still in the process of deciding on a reading list so come join us and help us get this group off the ground.cross-posted a bunch of places... [fear the sexiness] Saturday, December 9th, 2006 10:54 am - Happy birthday Pete! Friday, August 25th, 2006 10:31 am bucketofpuke Does anyone know of any info shops in Ireland? (I'm not really sure what sites to check -- infoshop.org didn't have any listings.) Currently I'm more than likely going to stay around Cork City for a few days, possibly travel West if I have the money and/or if I find a travel partner. Has anyone been to Cork County? Anything I should check out? [1 firebomb xXx fear the sexiness] Friday, August 11th, 2006 4:05 pm militant_mind What are some favorite sources for information on parkour? I'm interested in learning and just want to ask for some good solid start information. 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