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Elephant in the room - Feminist Strike 2019
There was a demonstration in Chemnitz on Saturday to the womens prison, we tell you what you were missing. Also today we are talking about the international women strike at the 8th of March. What was happening and how does it actually work. And on 15th of March is the International Day against police violence.
- Demonstration in Chemnitz to women prison
- feminist strike introduction and voices from Dresden action
- discussion about some ...
Elephant in the room - Repression in Russia and Belarus - April 2019
We are talking in this show about the Network Case in Russia. The lawyer of one of the accused gave a press converence on the case of his defendant. And we have an interview with an activist from Minsk, Belarus who is facing several charges because of Extremism.
Elephant in the room - tactics in climat movements
Today we talked about different forms of action in movements and protests with the examples of "extinction rebellion" and "Ende Gelände". Do we really need the categories of violence and nonvilence?
In the beginning of the show we also gave some informationen about the 11th of June - International Day of Solidarity with long-term prisoners.
Elephant in the room - political developement and recent situation in Ukraine
The uprising in Ukraine is 5 years ago. Back than everybody could follow those incidents via livestream. Today there is almost no intrest in the situation in the country anymore. Not so many people are aware that since almost 5 years a war is ongoing. Nationalism and patriotic sentimens are present in politics and society. However just yesterday 7000-8000 people attand the pride in Kiev. The developement inside the society is complex. We talked ...
Elephant in the room - tasers, racist murder, strategic voting
Today we talked about police brutality, focusing the use of tasers. We remembered the death of William Tonou Mbobda, who was killed by security guards of the UKE-hospital in Hamburg in april.
And last but not least: strategic voting. How suddenly everybody votes CDU to stop AFD-candidates, as if it wasn't a right-conservative party itself.
Music by feral booty, sharp knives and others.
Elephant in the room - International Week of Solidarity with anarchist prisoners
Introduction to the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners and interview with the Anarchist Federation UK about recent politics.
Freedom to Navalny protests in Russia
We got in touch with several anarchist comrades to talk about the recent protests on the streets of different cities in Russia. We looked into political events of 2020 and how they brought people to the situation with protests. We managed to clarify if Navalny is a nazi and the whole protest should be ignored by the anarchists or leftists. And of course we talked about anarchists and their participation in protest movement.
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Elephant in the room - Interview with Leila Al-Shami
In this edition of Elephant in the Room we are talking to activist and author Leila Al-Shami on current economical, social and political situation in Syria with details of horrors perpetrated by regime today.
In second part of interview we look into history of revolution and examples of anti-authoritarian struggle during the first years of uprising.
Bringing down the dictatorship - Interview on protests in Belarus
Since Sunday streets in Belarus are filled with rage of protesters trying to bring down the dictatorship. People from all parts of the society have been clashing in the night of August 9 in 33 different cities around the country. They are fighting against president Lukashenko who is ruling the country for the last 26 years.
We got together with one of comrades from Belarus who is living in emigration and clarified some things that are happening ...
Elephant in the room - Nine month after uprising in Belarus
In August 2020 the uprising against dictator Lukashenko started in Belarus, already before the re-election. After the falsified elections thousands of people went to the streets and were protesting for month. The regime hit back with massive violence. While at the beginning people were building barricades and fought the cops back, the liberals were calling for peaceful protest. This seem one of the key points why the uprising was eventually crashed ...
FAU and anarchist syndicalism in Germany #23
Anarchists were and are still an essential part of the workers struggle all around the world. From anarchist syndicates to smaller affinity groups for direct actions against bosses. Today we meet one of the activists of the anarchist union FAU from Jena, who will tell us a bit more about the past, present and the future of syndicalism in Germany.
Belarus-EU refugees war
For many years authoritarian regime of Lukashenko was providing EU with border security. The deal was simple - dictator prevents refugees going through Belarus to EU and for that get's money and trainings for the border guards. Despite sanctions from 2011 to 2015 Frontex was actively supporting belarusian border regime.
Situation have changed recently when EU stopped sending money to Minsk. Lukashenko gave up protecting borders and made ...
Elephant in the room - Activists at the belarusian-polish border - A call for ...
Since several weeks now the situation is becoming more and more dramatic at the polish-belarusian border. People try to cross and get pushed back by the polish border guards. Police, military and other forces hunting people in the forest to prevent them coming to poland. The weather is cold, the area swampy, people don´t have food, suffering from hypotermia, are injured from the fences and often get pushed back several times. More and more activists ...
Elephant in the room #37 - Anarchists and war in Ukraine
For weeks, Putin has been moving military forces in the direction of Ukraine. Over 120 000 soldiers with military equipment spread all around the border. The chance of military invasion is extremely high with Ukrainian government mobilizing forces and different countries sending military support. Putin continues to build up military pressure. Official reason: attempt to stop expansion of NATO. In reality, we see Russian imperial politics in action ...
Elephant in the room #38 - Update on the situation at the polish-belarusian border
For many years the authoritarian regime of Lukashenko was providing the European Union with border security. The deal was simple – the dictator prevents refugees going through Belarus to the EU and gets money and training for the border guards in return. Despite sanctions from 2011 to 2015 Frontex was actively supporting and developing the Belarusian border regime.
At the end of 2020 the Situation changed. The EU imposed sanctions in response ...
Elephant in the Room #42 – Situation of prisoners in Ukraine and Russia during ...
The war in Ukraine has kept everyone’s attention for over eight months now. Many were horrified by the atrocities that accompany war efforts and are ongoing. We see dead soldiers, tortured civilians, sad faces of those who found their relatives killed and happy cries of locals on de-occupied territories. However, not much is known about one of the most marginalized and invisible groups of the population – the prisoners.
In this interview ...
Elephant in the room #45 - Medical Self-Defense Network in Ukraine and beyond
In the last episode of this year we are talking with Alexis from Medical Self Defense Network - left and anarchists aiming to build up grassroot organizing of the health care as well as providing medical aid to the people in the war zones. MSDN is currently active in Ukraine and in the region of Northern Syria.
Elephant in the room #45 - Medical Self-Defense Network in Ukraine and beyond
In the last episode of this year we are talking with Alexis from Medical Self-Defense Network - left and anarchists aiming to build up grassroots organizing of the health care as well as providing medical aid to the people in the war zones. MSDN is currently active in Ukraine and in the region of Northern Syria.
The website of the project is https://msdnetwork.org/. You can also follow them on twitter in case it survives Elon Musk - twitter.com/msd_network ...
Elephant in the Room #46 - Myth of 13 February and bombing of Dresden
In 1945 the city of Dresden was bombed by the allies. The story was used by multiple different political group in their attempt to appropriate this event. Starting from the crumbling Nazi regime and ending up with GDR's so-called socialists. From 90th, neonazis are also using this day to rewrite the history and make Dresden as one of the biggest victims of the second world war.
For many years, anarchists and antifascists are resisting ...
Elephant in the room #48 - Anti-authoritarian left in Ukraine before and during ...
The full scale war continues in Europe for 446 days. And even though Putin's plans to conquer Ukraine on a couple of days failed, Kremlin is not giving up their plans on taking over large parts of the country. In the struggle against invaders, a lot of different powers took to arms, including leftists and anarchists. With the anti-authoritarian unit gone, most of those people were scattered around different units on the front lines. But their ...
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