From ANews Podcast
Welcome to this week’s podcast. This podcast is on anarchist activity, ideas, and comments from the previous week on anarchistnews.org.
Topic of the week – This week we’re taking some time to reflect and digest some statements and questions posed in a recent article titled “2022 in Review: A Year to Endure” by CrimethInc.
Olga "Tisha" Volkova was an anarchist and feminist from Kharkiv. She was active in a local community center where she was involved in educational activities such as teaching children to play the guitar and other things.
After the start of the Russian invasion, she served in the Kharkiv Territorial Defense as a medic and organized a mini-hospital for military and civilians in her apartment.
During combat operations, she suffered from artillery fire and was withdrawn from the front. She died of a heart attack while recovering.
From It's Going Down
...Against Backdrop of Increasing Police Violence and Growing Prisoner Resistance
On New Year’s Eve, anarchists, abolitionists, and angry community members across the so-called United States, Canada, and the world, all took part in yearly noise demonstrations outside of jails, prisons, detention centers, and juvenile hall facilities.
https://bab2023.espivblogs.net/
20 years of Balkan Anarchist Bookfair: Over the walls of nationalism and war!
We are excited to announce that next Balkan Anarchist Bookfair (BAB) will take place from 7th to 9th of July 2023 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This decision was made by the general assembly of the last BAB that took place between 24th and 26th of June 2022 in Cluj, Romania (you can read the full statement of the assembly here).
From Freedom News UK
None of us can live an authentic, total anarchism in a capitalist world. Taking that world onto your shoulders and expecting to be able to carry it is a promise to be crushed and broken. As activists, our goal is to transform the world-devouring system into something more creative, not to perfect ourselves within that system.
From Athens Indymedia, machine translated
Statement by fellow hunger and thirst striker (since 12/19) Th. Hatziangelos, member of the Anarchist Action Organization, who is on the 14th day of strike.
Unfortunately for my tormentors, I still have many breaths to defend political responsibility. The red line is in my veins. If blood is spilled, it won't just be mine.
From Athens Indymedia, Translated by Act for freedom now!
On Thursday 22 December we carried out an expropriation at the Market supermarket in the neighbourhood of Iisia and the products were shared among the people at the adjacent street market. [...] Expropriation is the principle against conformity and submission. We call for the immediate multiplication of similar actions in all cities.
From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
Last night I broke into a Bank of America in Portland, Oregon and started a large fire. According to news reports, the fire grew quickly and took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish.
From Abolition Media
Full title: Omar Nioi – Scripta Manent: a Political Trial against 20 Years of History of Revolutionary Anarchism
Letter – Intervention of the anarchist comrade from Sardinia, Omar Nioi (convicted in the trial of “Operation Scripta Manent”) at the event held in Athens (A.S.O.E.E.) on December 19, 2022, regarding the anarcho-nihilist hunger striker Alfredo Cospito.
From Support Eric King
Eric’s release fundriser is LIVE and can be found here https://www.gofundme.com/f/release-funds-for-political-prisoner-eric-king
From Historical Seditions
Seditious Texts, From and Against History
Historical Seditions is pleased to release two new zines. Each is available in two formats: a PDF imposed for letter-sized printing and one for digital reading.
In Search of Freedom and Self Determination: A Tour Through the Anarchist Movements in Graz, Austria, 1918–1938 contains a translation of a 2018 article by historian Reinhard Müller. Graz was a major node of anarchism in Central Europe during the interwar years.
From La Nemesi
Full original title: Demonstration in the city centre in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike to the bitter end against 41 bis and life imprisonment without possibility of parole (Milan, Italy, December 29, 2022)
This evening [December 29th, 71st day of hunger strike by Alfredo Cospito] a presence of about 300 comrades gathered at the end of via Torino, on the edge of piazza Duomo, heavily enclosed for the occasion by almost 30 armoured vehicles and a large contingent of police agents.
From La Nemesi
Full original title: Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 71st day of hunger strike (Italy, December 29, 2022)
On December 29th, 71st day of the hunger strike to the bitter end against 41 bis and life imprisonment without possibility of parole, the antagonist radio station Radio Onda d’Urto broadcast a speech by the doctor who is regularly visiting anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, imprisoned in the Bancali prison in Sassari. We report a partial transcript of the speech and, at the end of the update, the recording of the broadcast (in italian language).
Full original title: Update on the health condition of the Anarchist comrade Thanos Chatzianggelou on hunger and thirst strike. (Greece)
After today’s blood tests done by comrade Th.Hatzianggelou, the measurements are in a very bad place. The potassium and sodium levels are very high, which causes kidney failure and at any moment he could have a heart attack.
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
