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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. Music: Группа ...
Elephant in the room - Liberate Hong Kong an interview about the protest
Today the trial against some of the most famous protestors in Hong Kong began. Joshua Wong (24), Agnes Chow (23) and the 26 years old Ivan Lam. The prosecution accuses the three activists of having been present at an unauthorized demonstration outside a Hong Kong police station in June last year. They are also alleged to have asked others to join the illegal protest action. The three are facing up to five years in prison. The activists said this ...
Elephant in the Room - Interview on recent Protest in Poland
Abortion in Poland was legal during Communism and became illegal (with a few exceptions) after the political shift to democracy. Since then, feminists have been active in resisting the abortion law but with little success in gaining public support or influencing legislation. This changed in 2016, when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in what became known as the Czarny Protest, or Black Protest. It was a victory for the feminist ...
Review and update on two month of protest in Belarus an Interview
For two month people have been protesting in the street in Belarus. The 9th of August was the election day and Lukashenko hoped to be reelected like in the past 5 election periods. But this didn´t happen. First time in his ruling period real results were published. And to no ones surprise Lukashenko didn´t achieve 80 % as he usually orders everybody to announce. Svetlana Tichanovskaja won the election, the women wo stepped in running for ...
Elephant in the Room - Feminist Union Organizers in Sri Lanka and Indonesia -
This show was inspired of the recent strikes in Bangladesh concerning the garment industry. Due to difficult labor conditions and a lack of enforced work safety regulation the textile industry and especially the workers in those factories are facing many problems. One year ago we conducted an interview with two women from Sri Lanka and Indonesia working in unions with a feminist and queerfeminist mindset. Dian and Chamilla paint us a picture ...
Elephant in the room - International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners
23.-30. September - International Week of Solidarity with Anarchsit Prisoners A new decade has started on this planet. With the rise of right-wing movements and the slow decline of social democracy, we are looking into coming years of intense struggle with the state and capitalism. There are already many anarchists sitting in prisons for taking on this fight—forgotten or ignored by liberals and human rights NGOs for “violent” actions. ...
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 - conversation with anarchist from Belarus on politics in ...
In this edition of Elephant in the Room we are talking to a friend and comrade from Belarus, country that some call last dictatorship in Europe. Belarus is one of the few countries in the world that didn't take quarantine measures against coronavirus. At the same time government was trying to prevent any information spread on COVID-19 in the country. With growth of the virus in society people started organizing by themselves to save community ...
Elephant in the Room - Coronavirus in France
France is one of the leading countries in the world with amount of cases of COVID-19. The governmental response to the epidemic seems quite chaotic as in many other countries while the virus strikes hardest poorest communities in the country. We've invited a friend from Paris who came for couple of weeks to Dresden to talk about the current situation in the country and response to the crisis from different parts of population. Music: ...
Feminism in Poland- Elephant in the room
In this radio show we talk about feminism in poland. Our guests tell us about the history of feminist struggle, the abortion movement, current feminist debates and everyday madness.
Elephant in the room - Abolishing Prisons with Nazis?
On 7 March 2020, under the motto "Solidarity with the imprisoned trade unionists of the GGBO", around 150 people demonstrated to the Chemnitz prison (JVA) for the fourth time, in order to make the struggles of the prisoners, the poor working conditions and medical care visible on the occasion of the International Women's Day. Since last year Beate Tschäpe one of the most known nazi-terrorist of Germany is sitting in Chemnitz as ...
Perspektives on Womens prison- Elephant in the Room
According to the Federal Statistical Office 2996 women were in German prisons on 30 November. Who are these women? What are they being punished for? How many of them even identify themselves as women? Prison fulfils a structural function, for example in the administration of poverty. But what role do women*prisons fulfil? How do they help to maintain a patriarchal gender-biased system? Tops: Indroduction History of Women's prisons Women ...
Elephant in the room - repressions against anarchists in Russia and cooperation ...
Network case in Penza, Russia shocked a lot of people by sentences that can compete with those given to political opponents during Gulag times. We are talking to Tanya one of the people behind solidarity campaign with prosecuted anarchists and antifascists in Russia about the sentencing and the role repressions and tortures played in anarchist movement in the country. In the second part of the show we talk with an anarchist from Thuringen, ...
Elephant in the room - 20 years anniversary of indymedia
The resistance is global… a trans-pacific collaboration has brought this web site into existence. Thats how The first entry on an Indymedia website began on November 24, 1999. Indymedia went online a few days before the protests against the WTO (world-trade-organisation) meeting in Seattle, and it was to be the alternative platform for reports on these protests. A group of activist-journalists set up a newsroom in a donated storefront. They ...
Elephant in the room - Adventures at the Chaos Communication Congress
We wish you a new year full of struggle, interesting challenges and awesome people. We spend the time between Christmas and New Years in Leipzig at the Chaos Communication Congress and wanna share our adventures with you. We also invited a person from the local CCC in Dresden who will give us some thoughts and information about the whole idea behind the Congress. At the beginning of the show we are having a short look back to the rally in front ...
Elephant in the room - Interview with Anarchist Union of Afghanistan & Iran
In this edition of Elephant in the room we spoke to translator of Anarchist Union of Afghanistan and Iran about the recent protests that were happening in Iran, repressions against population and possible development in upcoming months. On top of that we read a mail from one of the labor activists from Iran who was sentenced to 5,5 years in jail for participation in protests in Mai this year. Music: Godspeed you black emperor A silver ...
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.
Elephant in the room - Real Estate Topic
In today's issue of Elephant in The Room we are talking about Capitalism around the housing topic. We introduce the problem with Vonovia company in Germany and get comments from the person who lives in one of the houses owned by the company as well as attempt to maximize profits by the company through illegal ways. You will also find a description of the current housing struggles happening in city of Dresden.
Elephant in the room - Zimbabwe and Kurdistan
This week edition of the elephant in the room includes a review of the current situation in Zimbabwe and Interview with anarchists fighting in Rojava in combat medic batallion.
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.