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My Body Is Not Your Capital-Producing Machine – Or Is It?

Written by Dr. Susan Rosenthal MD, author of the book “The Social Sources of Sickness: What I Learned From 50 Years in Medicine”. ____ There are three basic freedoms: freedom to say NO; freedom to move away; and freedom to change what does not work. Individual freedom requires social support. To say NO, you need others to respect your choice and not force you to obey. To move freely, you… …

Theory

Make Anarchism Great Again

“If we succeed in clearing the soil from the rubbish of the past and present, we will leave to posterity the greatest and safest heritage of all ages.” – Emma Goldman, 1910 Humans are an extraordinary result of evolution. It is a great power to be the most highly evolved creature in our conceivable knowledge and, in that, each one of us has a great responsibility. Problem solving is something… …

Global movement

Can the pandemic labor shortage help us envision a world without work?

written by Abigail Susik As the omicron variant sweeps through American communities, many of our workplaces and institutions are grinding to a halt. With nurses, teachers and other essential workers getting ill or quarantining, we are facing disruptions at schools and in hospitals. Some employers are seeking stopgap measures, trying to hire rapidly to fill open jobs, begging for community volunteers to help keep things running and even lowering requirements… …

Global movement

Myanmar- Youth brave bullets and arrest to keep protests alive

Ko Kyaw Htet is a frontline member of a protest group that has been gathering each day in Yangon’s Sanchaung Township for several weeks. The 23-year-old, who like every other protester in this article has been given a pseudonym for their safety, uses a shield fashioned from a SkyNet satellite dish for protection against rubber bullets. The activist also wears a yellow plastic hardhat and goggles to protect his eyes… …

Global movement

Embat: The King has no clothes. The authoritarian drift of the state – Pablo Hasél case and beyond

A statement by Embat, a Libertarian Organization from Catalonia, on the Pablo Hasél case and the authoritarian drift of the state in general. Originally published by Embat. Translated by Riot Turtle. After the imprisonment of rapper Pablo Hasél for a song against the monarchy, after the violent repression of the protests against his imprisonment, after the totally unpunished demonstration of neo-Nazis in Madrid praising the Blue Division, after the unleashed police action… …

Theory

Feeding Dual Power: Food Sovereignty, Anti-Fascism and other Pandemic Struggles

VOID NETWORK (Athens-Greece) written by Gene Ray and George Sotiropoulos “Seek ye first for food and clothing, then the kingdom of God will fall to you also” G.W.F. Hegel, letter to Knebel, 30 August 1807 We watch in horror, as the global explosion of the Sars-CoV-2 virus continues. The spreading medical emergency starkly reveals the real wages of neoliberalism and its extractive austerities. Gutted national healthcare systems that put profit… …

Global movement

SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION for migrants and spaces of struggle VICTORIA SQ. 2 Nov. 2019 Athens Greece

SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION FOR MIGRANTS AND SPACES OF STRUGGLE AGAINST THE STATE AND CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT VICTORIA SQUARE NOVEMBER 2, 2019, starts at 12:00 Athens Greece _____________________________ If you are a migrant… Migrants are undervalued and attacked in all aspects of their lives. They follow the path of migration to escape war, poverty, and sometimes because of a desire for a better life. Wars are fomented by bosses and their states to… …

Global movement

‘Yellow Vests’ Riot in Paris, but Their Anger Is Rooted Deep in France- By Adam Nossiter

GUÉRET, France — At the bare bottom of Florian Dou’s shopping cart at the discount supermarket, there was a packet of $6 sausages and not much else. It was the end of last week, and the end of last month. At that point, “my salary and my wife’s have been gone for 10 days,” he lamented. How to survive those days between when the money runs out and when his… …

Global movement

Week of International Support in Lead Up to Nationwide Prison Strike

A call from a variety of groups to make some noise for the upcoming prison strike, kicking off on August 21st, 2018. This is a challenge to every anarchist, abolitionist, rebel and determined fighter against prison society and white supremacy in Amerikkka: Between Monday, July 16 and Saturday, July 21, we’re calling on you to help unleash a concerted and spectacular array of solidarity actions before the upcoming prison strikes! Prepare now, bring… …

Local movement

Ενημέρωση- Εκδήλωση ενάντια στις Εξορύξεις Υδρογονανθράκων στην Ήπειρο- ΕΜΠΡΟΣ Τετ. 21/03/2018

Συζήτηση- ενημέρωση: Εξορύξεις Υδρογονανθράκων στην Ήπειρο και στην Ελλάδα – ΣΩΣΤΕ ΤΗΝ ΦΥΣΗ ομιλητές: Πρωτοβουλία κατοίκων -ΣΩΣΤΕ ΤΗΝ ΗΠΕΙΡΟ – Ενεργοί πολίτες @ θα ακολουθήσει live μουσική με τους αλληλέγγυους FOLK FUSIONAL HYBRIDIAN Βιολί: Στέφανος Φίλος (Elektrobalcana) Κρουστά: Γιώργος Φασόλης και Γιώργος Αναγνωστόπουλος Λαούτο: Γιάννης Βαρβαρηγος ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ 21/3 ώρα έναρξης 20.00 Ελεύθερο Αυτοδιαχειριζόμενο Θέατρο ΕΜΠΡΟΣ Ρήγα Παλαμήδη 2, 10554 Αθήνα http://embros.gr ΣΥΜΒΑΣΗ ΕΚΜΕΤΑΛΛΕΥΣΗΣ ΥΔΡΟΓΟΝΑΝΘΡΑΚΩΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΗΠΕΙΡΟ – ΜΕΡΙΚΑ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΑ ΓΕΝΙΚΑ… …

Global movement

Anarchy in the UK: The Social Centres roundup in England

For all its small size and general impoverishment the libertarian socialist movement actually runs a surprisingly large amount of real estate around Britain, all on non-hierarchical lines, by and for the people of the cities and towns we’re in. Housing co-ops, bookshops, bike collectives, archives, distros, printers and the like are all part of the collective mix. Below, Freedom News briefly rounds up some goings-on at 15 radical social centres… …

Global movement

Why We Fought in Charlottesville- A Letter from an Anti-Fascist on the Dangers Ahead

I am one of the thousands of people who confronted Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend. I am a blue-collar person, with a job, family, and responsibilities. I would have preferred to do other things with my weekend. However, I had to ask myself: If these people are allowed to run roughshod over this town, what will they do next? “We would have been crushed like cockroaches if… …

Local movement

Τριήμερο Εκδηλώσεων στο Βοτανικό Κήπο Πετρούπολης- 3 days events at occupied Botanic Garden of Petroupolis- Athens

Η πιο όμορφη κατάληψη της πόλης μας καλεί σε μια 3ημερη γιορτή αυτοοργάνωσης και ελευθερίας -Παρ.16-Σαββ.17-Κυρ.18/6/2017 / The most beautiful occupied social center in Athens invite us to a 3 days celebration of self-organization and Freedom Τριήμερο Εκδηλώσεων στο Βοτανικό Κήπο Πετρούπολης Οι ΔΗΜΟΣΙΟΙ ΧΩΡΟΙ από το κράτος και τους ιδιώτες στη κοινωνία και το άτομο. Αυτό σημαίνει ΕΠΑΝΟΙΚΕΙΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ. Παρασκευή 16 ΙΟΥΝΗ 8.00 μμ – Το Internet: πολιτικοί, κοινωνικοί, φιλοσοφικοί… …

Global movement

Last remaining housing occupation in Bologna has been evicted // Η τελευταία εναπομείνασα κατάληψη στέγης στην Μπολόνια, εκκενώθηκε

The eviction of the last remaining housing occupation in Bologna – around 100 people, 34 of them children, living in a building in Via Mario De Maria, in the working-class neighborhood of Bolognina – started at dawn on October 11. The police and the carabinieri surrounded the block and raided the building, beating people and even using pepper spray, the residents say. The newly elected council member for the housing emergency, Virginia… …

Void Network News

UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE PsyTrance AΣΟΕΕ Fr.29.1.2016 benefit event for the creation new Free Social Space

        UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE  PSYCHEDELIC TRANCE EXPERIENCE FRIDAY 29 JAN. 2016 | starts 23.00 | ΑΣΟΕΕ Οικονομική Σχολή Αθηνών  (Πατησίων 76 / Πλ.Βικτωρίας) 23.00-01.00  WAR (Void Network) 01.00-02.00  CACTUS ARISING                       (Timewarp rec / Void Network) 02.00-03.00  RISING GALAXY 03.00-04.30  JUNIOR X (Void Network) 04.30-0.530  CRYSTAL ZERO                       (Void Network) 05.30-07.00… …

Void Network News

BLACK PANTHER Party: Το Κοινωνικό Πρόγραμμα των Μαύρων Πανθήρων για την ανατροπή της Κυριαρχίας OMIΛΙΑ: GEORGE KATSIAFICAS ΠΑΡ.17/4 ΕΜΠΡΟΣ The social Programme of the Black Panthers against domination at Occupied Theatre Embros in Athens Greece

VOID NETWORK[Theory, Utopia, Empathy, Ephmeral Arts] KENO ΔΙΚΤΥΟ [Θεωρία, Ουτοπία, Συναίσθηση, Εφήμερες Τέχνες] http://voidinternational@gmail.com BLACK PANTHER Party Το Κοινωνικό Πρόγραμμα των Μαύρων Πανθήρων για την ανατροπή της Κυριαρχίας  BLACK PANTHER PARTY The social Programme of the Black Panthers against dominationa lecture and open talk byGEORGE KATSIAFICAS  ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ 17 ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΥ 2015 ΩΡΑ ΕΝΑΡΞΗΣ 20.00friday 17/4/2015 starts at 20.00the talk will be in English with Greek translation ΔΙΑΛΕΞΗ/ANOIXTH ΣΥΖΗΤΗΣΗ: GEORGE KATSIAFICAS (U.S.A.) Καθ. Κοινωνιολογίας, μαθητής… …

Void Network News

ΚΕΝΟ ΔΙΚΤΥΟ: Πολιτική Ανακοίνωση / κάλεσμα συστράτευσης με τους αγωνιζόμενους κατοίκους στις Σκουριές // Void Network: Political Announcement / Open Call for action in solidarity of the struggle against gold-mine in Skouries

ΚENO ΔΙΚΤΥΟ[Θεωρία, Ουτοπία, Συναίσθηση, Εφήμερες Τέχνες]http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com  Πρέπει να γνωρίζουμε τη θέση μας κάθε στιγμή στα κοινωνικά μέτωπα που αναδύονται γύρω μας και πρέπει να είμαστε σε θέση να βαδίζουμε, να αγαπάμε και να πολεμάμε με τα κεφάλια ψηλά! Τις προηγούμενες ημέρες έχουμε γίνει μάρτυρες δύο σημαντικών αγώνων, που διεξάγονται, εν μέσω αριστερής διαχείρισης του συστήματος. Ο σκληρός αγώνας των πολιτικών κρατούμενων, με τη χρήση του ύστατου μέσου κατά την διάρκεια… …

Void Network News

Void Network introduces: “The Philosophy of Anonymous / Ontological Politics without Identity” by Harry Halpin

Ranging from WikiLeaks to the global struggle against treaties such as ACTA, over the last few years the Web has become a centre of political struggle in and of itself rather than a mere adjunct of other struggles. At the same time, a new social force has emerged from the Internet: Anonymous.  It is unclear at this moment even what Anonymous is, much less where is it going.  Is Anonymous… …

Void Network News

Greece / General Strike 15 June 2011 : For all those wondering about “Violence” or “Non Violnence”, by Tasos Sagris /// “…Για όλους όσους αναρωτιούνται σχετικά με την “Βία” ή την “Μη-Βία”

ΕΛΛΑΔΑ / ΓΕΝΙΚΗ ΑΠΕΡΓΙΑ 15 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ 2011 Για όσους αναρωτιούνται σχετικά με την “Βία” ή την “Μη-Βία” Βία είναι τα μέτρα λιτότητας, Βία είναι ο εκβιασμός της εμπορευματικής οικονομίας, Βία είναι να μην μπορείς να παντρευτείς γιατί δεν έχεις ούτε να νοικιάσεις σπίτι με την αγαπημένη σου, Βία είναι να είσαι άνεργος ή να δουλεύεις όλη τη μέρα σε μια δουλειά που μισείς, Βία είναι να μην έχεις λεφτά να… …

Void Network News

In Solidarity to the students of New York University that occupied the building of the University to liberate space and time!

We are expressing our solidarity to the occupation of New York University…All you students, activists and friends from New York you have to know that we will fight here for all of you as you fight for us there …We are happy that you can liberate your time and space and you can fight to take back your basic rights as students of university and human beings…As you stay in… …

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