Anews Podcast 244 – 1.7.21
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Welcome to the anews podcast. This podcast is on anarchist activity, ideas, and conversations from the previous week on anarchistnews.org.
From Freedom News UK
I’ve been thinking recently about the various themes that I’ve written about since starting this regular column for Freedom in 2016. I try really hard not to repeat myself too much but history has a way of making that pretty tough. These are the themes I think will recur time and again in 2022.
From Freedom Press UK
a review of Anarchism and the Black Revolution and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition
From From Embers
This episode features an interview with Cid V. Brunet about their recent memoir "This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir. We talk about stripping, sex work, anarchist community, sex, gender and much more.
From Anarchist Agency
2021. Can’t say we’re sad to see you go.
Beginning with a literal attempt at an insurrectionary coup by Trump’s fascist goons and closing out with still another deadly wave of COVID-19, 2021 won’t go down in the record books as a great year.
From It's Going Down
Why Moxie’s Departure is Not the End of Signal
Technical discourse almost always generates an odd sort of distortion when it collides with life outside of disciplinary separations. This is very much the case when it comes to radicals and information security. Communications, computer science and cryptography are highly complex, to the point that even people working in the security industry full time have difficulty grasping the complexities from time to time. As we saw with the Snowden leaks, the combination of highly complex technical content and the possibility of danger in the form of surveillance, tended to generate a discourse grounded in hyperbole and conspiracizing. This approach often led people to either attempt to completely go dark, or to modify their practices base on false, misconstrued or misunderstood information.
Jersey Counter-Info (https://jerseycounterinfo.noblogs.org/) is a counter-information platform to promote and spread anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, abolitionist, and other radical ideas, news, and events in occupied Lenapehoking or so-called “New Jersey” and the surrounding areas.
This project is intended to fill a need for anarchists groups and collectives in the region who may not encounter each other to share their analyses and reportbacks securely and anonymously.
November 27, 2021
Obituary by Jeff Paterson
https://couragetoresist.org/bob-meola-1952-2021/
Courage to Resist is deeply saddened by the passing of our friend and comrade Robert “Bob” Meola. Bob was well known throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for his lifelong commitment to anti-militarism efforts.
Immediatism's favorite online anarchist study group is taking a three-week deep dive into spirituality and religion in the anarchist sphere. (See each week's reading list and links to pdf's at https://chi.st/study-group/.) To support participants and newcomers with the reading, Immediatism has available two of the texts for Thursday 1/13 and is in the process of putting out the 10 episodes of the lengthier text for 1/20 and 1/27/22. The Shamanic Trace is PLW's large scale theory of religion -- its roots and its relationship with the state.
from Publicación Refractario, English translation by Act for freedom now!
Statement from anarchist comrade prisoner Ignacio Avaca
There are many things I’d like to say to you and in my opinion words will always fall short to express the intensity and particularity of what I feel. I would like to thank each and every one of you without having to repeat “thank you”, but rather with a hand when you need it, with deeds, not letters. However, at this moment, perhaps the only action I have left is to continue resisting as I have done till now, together with my blood brother, and with the subversive brothers and sisters here in Rancagua, Santiago or any prison in the world.
from CrimethInc.
Eyewitness Accounts from Almaty; Analysis from Russian Anarchists
Following up our coverage of last week’s uprising in Kazakhstan, we have translated an array of perspectives on the situation from various Russian anarchist sources and interviewed two anarchists from Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan and the place where the fighting became most intense.
This year’s Radical Bookfair will take place in Derry as the city commemorates the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. This year will mark the 6th Derry Radical Bookfair and the first since the global pandemic closed the majority of public gatherings. A spokesperson for the Derry Radical Bookfair said:
“We are delighted to announce that the forthcoming Derry Radical Bookfair will be taking place once again at Pilots Row. It’s now viewed by many who attend to be the rightful home of the book fair, an ideal space right in the heart of the Bogside particularly at this time.
By Matt Dagher-margosian
December 31, 2021
https://asiaarttours.com/sea-library-knowledge-building-resistance-in-so...
I spoke to the Southeast Asia Anarchist Library on how their project came together, Southeast Asia and how organizing must be local and global to build a better world.
Asia Art Tours: How did Southeast Asian Anarchist Library come together? And outside of your website, could you describe the resources available for anarchism in Southeast Asia?