Welcome to Bad News: Angry Voices from Around The World for January of 2024. This month, we’re bringing you segments from four members of the Network of Anarchist and Anti-authoritarian radios and podcasts.
TotW: Harm Reduction?
The No State Solution: A Dialogue with Palestinian sociologist Bamyeh & Uri Gordon
Sunset Labs (1824 Store St.)
Victoria, BC, Canada
Saturday, January 28, 2024
Doors at 11:30 am
Zoom link: https://camas.ca/nostate
The systemic oppression and displacement of Palestinian people and the unequal cycle of deadly violence that continues to consume the lives of Israelis and Palestinians arises historically from the creation of a hypermiltarized Jewish ethnostate in Palestine.
B(A)D NEWS: Episode 75
From A-Radio Network
Bad News: Angry Voices from Around The World for January of 2024: Episode 75 (1/2024)
Call for Participation: Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2024
With great excitement we announce that, for the first time ever, the 16th edition of Balkan Anarchist Bookfair (BAB) will be held in Prishtina, Kosova, from 5th – 7th of July 2024. BAB is not merely a platform to promote books, but also place to exchange information and ideas, create new initiatives, and strengthen organizations. As such, for more than 20 years, it stands as a testament to our collective commitment to solidarity, resistance, and collaboration across the artificial borders of Balkans.
What Happened to David Graeber?
From Los Angeles Review of Books
I BOW TO few in my admiration for the anthropologist, economist, radical leader, and delightful prose stylist David Graeber, who died unexpectedly in 2020 at the age of 59. Since I read his little book Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology in 2004, I’ve been telling anyone who seemed inclined to listen that he was the most important anarchist thinker since Peter Kropotkin, who died in 1921. His ideas, including those beautifully captured in his book Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), helped motivate and shape the Occupy movement, which took inspiration from his commitments to radical democracy, egalitarianism, and “prefigurative politics”—the idea that people seeking to make a revolution should try to live and organize now in a way they’d want to arrange their lives together in the future.
Dissident Island Radio: London Anarchist Bookfair Radio 2023 (Part 1 & 2)
From Dissident Island Radio #1 & #2
Dissident Island & Radio Ava present a selection of interviews from the 2023 edition of the London Anarchist Bookfair interspersed with tunes from the bookfiar mixtape.
Live Like the World is Dying: Eric King on Surviving Prison
From Live Like the World is Dying, S1E105
This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Eric King talks to Margaret about navigating and surviving prison.
Confessions of a communard: All-in for the revolution
From Freedom News UK
One of the most common statements I hear from people who spend time at Bentley Urban Farm, the anarchist-led ‘upcycled market garden’ project just north of Doncaster, is: “I wish I could live like this every day.”
How to Host a Haunted House
From CrimethInc.
A Guide for Anarchists with a Video Walkthrough
In the following account, a participant describes how people involved in an anarchist social center set up a haunted house last October as a fundraiser to support defendants facing RICO charges as a consequence of repression targeting the movement to Stop Cop City. This is an excellent example of how creative efforts can add a joyous element to political outreach and legal support.
The Year Ahead in 2024
From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos
Hey everyone,
The second round of chemo has knocked me on my ass but, writing from bed, I wanted to get out a little newsletter.
This is a partially facetious, partially serious forecast for the next 15 years, or more specifically, an adjustment to what we might expect out of the next 15 years, as seen from this current bend in the road at the very beginning of 2024.
The Brisbane Solidarity Network: A Retrospective Assessment
From Non State Actor
January 6, 2024
Spain: Formation of the Albacete Mountain Anarchist Group
From Grupo Anarquista de Montaña de Albacete
December 21, 2023
Faced with the brutalized and monetized capitalist leisure and sports, Albacete's libertarian sensibility is organized to offer alternatives:
Last Wednesday, November 1, a group of anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist militants met in an assembly with the aim of forming the Albacete Mountain Anarchist Group, as well as to make the first agreements for its operation.
Graffiti in Memory of Tortuguita
Self-styled anarchists raid NTUA building
From ekathimerini.com
Unidentified assailants raided the Administration Building of the National Technical University of Athens in the Zografou area of the capital on Monday morning.