ANews Podcast 352 – 2.16.24
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
The Anarchists of Dune
From The Transmetropolitan Review
Across the world, the movie-watching public will soon behold the Fremen of Dune sack and destroy the Empire, starting on their homeworld of Arrakis. This irresistible moment, where the rebels actually win, is sure to sink into the mass-public consciousness, but despite all the Arabic names and parallels between spice and petroleum, the true story of the Fremen deserves to be told, especially now, given what’s at stake.
Anarchist participation in the farmers struggles in Berlin on Jan 15
From de.indymedia.org
February 15, 2024
They Tried to Bury Us, They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds!
Call for anarchist blocs in Warsaw and Berlin on February 24
From Pramen
We publish appeals by comrades from two European cities for the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Comrades from Germany report that their call on the German indymedia has already been removed without explanation.
Meetings places:
Warsaw — Skwer Tarasa Szewczenki // 15:30
Berlin — Unter den Linden (U-Bahn station) // 12:00
Join the anarchist block on February 24 in Berlin!
Netherlands: Annual 2.DH5 Festival, Feb 23-25
From 2.Dh5
The annual 2.Dh5 festival returns to Amsterdam at the Ru Paré for its eighteenth edition from 23rd to 25th February 2024.
2.Dh5 is an annual festival for the exchange of radical ideas, strategies and practices by grassroots groups, collective projects and direct action campaigns in the Netherlands and beyond.
The inspiring Spanish anarchist collectives: Look what we must do!
From resilience dot org by Ted Trainer
We are entering can era of severe scarcity in which centralised and top-down systems will fail to provide for us and we will have to develop cooperative and self-sufficient localized economies. The achievements of the Spanish anarchist workers collectives in the 1930s show what miracles ordinary people can do.
Directors Report: C4SS in 2023 (and beyond)
From C4SS
Anarchism is an odd beast and effective advocacy takes a multitude of forms. During the past year, the team behind the Center for a Stateless Society has been focused on exploring how we can best explain and defend the idea of vibrant social cooperation without aggression, oppression, or centralized authority. With limited resources, both financially and in terms of contributor’s time, we must take the time to reflect on our goals, our tactics, and our path forward, changing with the world around us, the social landscape, and the available communications technology.
The gentle embrace of censorship
In Berlin on February 24, the Ukrainian diaspora is holding an action on the anniversary of the start of the full-scale invasion. Local groups (mostly made up of immigrants from Belarus/Russia) have called to join this action in the format of an anarchist bloc, in response to the Pramen collective's call for this kind of action across Europe. One of the comrades involved in the preparations for the action today threw me the information that their call was removed from the local indymedia without any comments – the German indymedia is still alive and actively filled with various content, from authoritarian left to anarchist. It's hard for me not to comment on such a situation.
Might Doesn’t Determine Right…
From Center for a Stateless Society by Trevor Hauge, February 15th, 2024
…but It Did Determine Our Regime of Property
“You fools! If you took might, freedom would come of itself.”- Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
Waymo Vehicles Attacked in Solidarity With Palestine and Atlanta
From Indybay
In the past several weeks, we used hammers and knives to sabotage multiple Waymo self-driving vehicles in San Francisco. We attacked Waymo in solidarity with the Palestinian people and resistance. Waymo is owned by Alphabet, Google's parent company. Google, together with Amazon, has a $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to "Israel" and its military as part of Project Nimbus.
Abolish Israel
From Institute of Barbarian Books
Anarchists are, after all, people who tend to be committed by principle to working towards abolishing not just the police and incarceration systems, but the very States we live in themselves (along with having dispensed of any illusion about justice under international law). Israel is a culmination of the worst aspects of authority and State power anarchists profess to oppose. Abolition is not only a natural objective, but a necessary one.
Thai journalists arrested for news coverage of anarchist graffiti on temple
From Reuters
February 13, 2024 BANGKOK - Two Thai journalists have been arrested for their story about an activist spray painting an anarchist symbol and a symbol critical of "lese majeste" laws on a Bangkok temple wall almost a year ago, the police and their lawyers said on Tuesday.
Update from the Defence Actions of the Evicted Anarchist Steki Utopia A.D.
Via Dark Nights
Komotini, Greece:
A few hours after today’s eviction of the Anarchist Steki Utopia A.D., an open assembly was held in which a large number of people in solidarity were informed about the situation.
Human Rights Discourse Has Failed to Stop the Genocide in Gaza
From CrimethInc.
An Anarchist from Jaffa on the Necessity of Anti-Colonial Strategies for Liberation