Serie: Elephant in the Room
ID
Datum Titel AutorInnen Sprache Beitragsart Serie Länge
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 ...
Elephant in the room #47 - March 8 - Voices of Women and Queers fighting in Ukraine
For March 8 Solidarity Collectives gathered statements from women and Queers fighting and resisting the Russian invasion. We recorded those statements to give this perspectives a voice
March 8. A day symbolizing freedom, a day motivating to fight, a day when the voices of feminists can be heard by millions of protesters walking the common path of equality.
But the path of Ukrainian women changed dramatically on February 24, 2022. The beginning ...
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 #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 #44 - No Borders Team about the developement at the polish-belarusian ...
In this interview we are talking with people of the No Borders Team, an anarchist collective from Polans, about the situation at the polish-belarusian border in the past year.
Elephant in the Room #43 – Feminist perspective on the Revolution in Iran and ...
Baharak is an Iranian living in exile for some years already. She had to leave Iran and is now located in Leipzig. We talked about the feminist aspects of the revolution in Iran and the problems which appear with the uprising in the diaspora. The diaspora is as diverse as the people today in the streets of Iran. And different groups claim the revolution for their believes.
Information from anarchist perspective in the region -The Federation ...
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 ...
Solidarity Collectives - Interview about solidarity work with Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is going on now for 5 month and our solidarity is still necessary. We talked with Yuri a member of the network Solidarity Collectives about the challenges the activists are facing within their work, why the initiative Operation Solidarity was transformed, what is the focus of the new initiative and what are the wishes and advices towards the comrades from abroad.
Elephant in the room - No one will be left alone – prisoner solidarity in Belarus #40
ABC Belarus is calling urgently for donations to continue their support of the anarchist and antifascist prisoners in Belarus. Since the uprising in 2020 the repression keeps going and right now there are 30 Antifascists and Anarchists imprisoned. The number is growing. In this interview a member of the solidarity campaign is explaining the recent situation in Belarus in general, as well as the situation of imprisoned people, how the repression ...
Elephant in the room - A russian perspective on the war in Ukraine #39
Already on March 2, we conducted an interview with the independent journalist Dmitry Okrest. We talked about his perspective on the war, the reaction of society in general and the anarchist movement specifically, the ideology behind the war, and the impact the war has on russian society.
More information from russian anarchists: avtonom.org
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 #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 #36 - Steps to food sovereignty in Germany
In this show we talk about food sovereignty. The right for people to define their agricultural and food policy without any interference of market policies. We learn about concepts implemented in Germany, which try to apply basic principles of food sovereignty. We discuss developments and challenges in already established structures and learn about self education projects for organic farmer.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
A talk about the Kurdish Community in Germany (Dresden)
At the 12th of February the Kurdish activist Halil Şen, who set himself on fire in front of the Saxon state parliament in Dresden, died as a result of his injuries.
The last place where he lived and was political active was Dresden. Halil´s life is an example how a community is facing repressions not only at the place where the Kurdish People come from but also here in Germany. The Kurdish movement is the main target for state repressions inside ...
Italy after first wave of coronavirus
In august 2020 we escaped Germany to visit some comrades in Northern Italy. On one of the super hot nights we recorded an interview with couple of them in their flat talking about coronavirus, self-organization and possible anarchist response to epidemic in the world without a state.
Music:
* Selbslaut - https://selbstlaut.bandcamp.com/
* Dreg - https://dregspunx.bandcamp.com/album/built-to-rot-ep
- Wenn Sie Beiträge finden, bei denen Sie einen Urheberrechtsverstoß vermuten, melden Sie sich bitte umgehend bei uns über den Navigationspunkt Kontakt > E-Mail.
- Impressum
- Datenschutzerklärung
