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Anarchist Collective Shares Instructions to Make DIY Abortion Pills
from Vice by Jason Koebler
DIY medicine collectives are preparing for the horrifying prospect that Roe v. Wade will be overturned.
What is May Day? For the most part, the opposite of capitalism
via NPR
For a day that celebrates reform and revolution, political discussions and petitions, said Linebaugh, there's something in it for everyone. Well, maybe not.
"There's nothing in it for the capitalist class," he said.
The Hilton Opened an ‘Anarchist’ Cocktail Bar in London. The Drinks Are £14.
From Vice News by Simon Childs
The hotel chain changed the branding of its "Freedom Cafe" in East London, after a local anarchist group complained that it ripped them off.
East London anarchists have accused the Hilton hotel chain of copying their radical image and history as branding for a luxury bar for “wanky City types” where cocktails cost up to £14.
Dining across the divide
from The Guardian by Sam Wollaston
‘I didn’t really know what an anarchist would be like. Now I know!’
Can a socialist find common ground with someone who doesn’t believe in government?
UK: Laurens Otter obituary
from The Guardian by Tim Dawes
My friend Laurens Otter, who has died aged 91, was a committed peace activist. Originally active in the Peace Pledge Union in the 1950s, Laurens joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament on its creation, attending the first Aldermaston march in 1958.
The Dark Century of Elsa Morante and Elena Ferrante
From The Transmetropolitian Review
This is an in-depth essay about the works of Elsa Morante and Elena Ferrante, specifically La Storia and The Neapolitan Quartet. Between these five novels, the entire twentieth century is stripped bare, revealing a horrible darkness we are still barely emerging from. While reading any further might lead to some spoilers, these books are too rich to taint with my basic overview, which will dwell on the anarchism, history, celebrity, and anonymity of these Italian authors, one who is far better known than the other. Just like Elsa Morante, I write these words for those who can’t read, the illiterate.
TOTW: The future of anarchist media
Anarchists are Building DIY Heaters to Keep Unhoused People Warm
From Vice News by Ella Fassler
Open-source blueprints are inspiring activists to distribute tent-safe heaters that can be built for as little as $7.
As temperatures fall sharply and the number of unhoused people swells throughout the United States, anarchists are forming a decentralized network that builds and distributes tent-safe, alcohol-based heaters to those without shelter.
Soe Hok Gie’s diary
from coconuts.co By Kevin Ng
The life of celebrated Chinese-Indonesian intellectual, anarchist, and activist
For many, it’s difficult to determine Gie’s political beliefs, as he had never committed to any mainstream political groups. But it was apparent that he was, first and foremost, a humanist, as well as anti-authoritarian and anti-establishment. In Gie’s obituary written by political scientist and friend Benedict Anderson in a journal, Gie used to refer to himself as an “anarchist,” often saying it with a smile. “I write in part simply to relieve my sense of nausea at our condition. Sometimes, though, I feel as if it’s all useless. I feel that all there is in my articles is a few firecrackers. And I’d like to fill them with bombs,” Gie wrote to Anderson in a letter.
‘Revolutionary Action’ case sent to court. 10 political prisoners involved in it
from belsat.eu
The Belarusian Investigative Committee has submitted the case of human rights activist Marfa Rabkova and nine other political prisoners has to court, HRC Viasna reports.
Marfa Rabkova, Andrey Chapyuk, Akikhiro Hayeuski-Khanada, Alyaksandr Frantskevich, Alyaksei Halauko, Alyaksandr Kazlyanka, Pavel Shpetny, Mikita Dranets, Andrey Marach, Danila Chul are accused of organising and running leading three anarchist groups (Revolutionary Action and other), or participating in them. They will be for the events that occured in 2016-2020. The case file consists of 160 volumes.
Agency 2021 Year In Review
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.
What We Can Learn From Portland’s “Queen of the Bolsheviks”
From The Nation by Kim Kelly
More than a century ago, the US government tried to silence Marie Equi, a radical queer abortionist.
Elon Musk Says That Politically, He’s a “Utopian Anarchist”
From Futurism.com
"I don’t mean to suggest chaos, but rather that you’re not under anyone’s thumb."
Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn’t one to follow rules, particularly when he thinks they’re bogus.
Framing the Mentally Ill
from Bright Lights Film Journal
An Anarchist-Theoretical Understanding of Two “Jokers” by David Christopher
This article aims to demonstrate the ways in which media interests at the levels of cinematic production through to their journalistic reception work to control and marginalize certain progressive ideologies that run counter to their interests, in this particular case by deploying widespread stereotypes of mental illness and instability that map neatly, in the arena of normative ideology, onto the image of the insane clown (always an “anarchist”). It also intends, more specifically, to demonstrate the ways in which progressive anarchist philosophy remains an ideological scapegoat for even ostensibly left-inflected political stances.