The Story of Kuwasi Balagoon Part 1 ft. Andrew
From It Could Happen Here
Andrew walks us through the early years and political development of Black anarchist Kuwasi Balagoon.
From It Could Happen Here
Andrew walks us through the early years and political development of Black anarchist Kuwasi Balagoon.
The lyrics are concerned with the name sake of the group, Kanno Sugako, a Japanese anarchist journalist interested in the liberation of women and humanity as a whole. She was executed by hanging on January 25, 1911 by the Japanese government due to her connections to the High Treason Incident, a plot by a group of socialists and anarchist to assassinate the Emperor Meiji. 26 people were arrested of which twelve were hanged to death despite the lack of direct evidence. Two more were sentenced to eight and eleven years of prison respectively and the remaining twelve were sentenced to life imprisonment. Sugako was the last person to be killed.
Accounts from the Defense of the Atlanta Forest
In Atlanta, Georgia, the city government intends to destroy large swaths of what remains of the South River Forest—also known by the Muskogee name for the river, Weelaunee. In place of one stretch of woods, they aim to build a police training compound; they have sold the neighboring part to Blackhall Studios executive Ryan Millsap, who intends to build a giant soundstage. Yet for more than a year now, activists have protected the forest against their plans.
From It's Going Down
Action report on banner drops in the so-called Miami area. Originally posted to Tequesta Black Star.
From CrimethInc.
Reports on Two CrimethInc. Tours in the So-Called Americas
From ANews Podcast
Welcome to this week’s podcast. This podcast is on anarchist activity, ideas, and comments from the previous week on anarchistnews.org.
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation
This document was produced by the Brazilian Anarchist Coordinator [Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira] (CAB), a group of anarchist organizations working collaboratively across Brazil. It is translated and reprinted here with the permission of our sister organizations participating in CAB.
Translation by Enrique Guerrero-López
This week, we spoke with Alex, an anarchist squatter in the Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia. They talk about repression by the New Democracy party, struggles against green washing wind turbines around rural Greece, the fires raging through the country, resistance to rape culture, fighting against the building of a metro station in Exarchia and the privatization of public spaces like Strefi Hill, police presence at Universities, anarcho-tourism and the hunger strike of anarchist prisoner Giannis Michialidas.
From Jacobin by Ian Birchall
French socialist thinker Daniel Guérin lived a life of extraordinary political commitment, from anti-fascist and anti-colonial struggles to his pioneering advocacy of gay liberation. Guérin’s writings and record should be a touchstone for the modern left.
From Anarchist Black Cross Federation
Since 1999, prisoners and supporters throughout North America have participated in the annual event known as Running Down the Walls (RDTW) often running or walking simultaneously in many cities and prisons at once. This is a 5k non-competitive run/jog/walk/roll in order to raise awareness and funds for political prisoners currently held in North American prisons. Over the years, we have raised thousands of dollars and lots of awareness around the struggle to free political prisoners. Many places will be hosting RDTW 2022 on either September 11th or 18th – stay tuned to our blog for more details from all of the locations participating this year!
From Pop Matters By Beau Lee Gambold / 2 August 2022
An Anarchist Critique of ‘Avatar: The Legend of Korra’
The optimism found in Avatar: The Last Airbender darkens to cynicism and violence in the follow-up series, Avatar: The Legend of Korra. Why did this happen?
From The Guardian Jermyn Street theatre, London
The first winner of the Woven Voices prize for migrant playwrights is an open-hearted play that layers a Belarusian woman’s past and present.
Leather jackets and protest banners, bootleg booze and molotov cocktails hang from above. These are the props from Dasha’s teenage years growing up in Belarus, back when she was an anarchist and, amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, change felt possible. Now middle-aged, Dasha has a chance to move to the US but, if she is to get away, she’ll have to help quell the unrest that rumbles around yet another corrupt election. Should she flee and thrive – or stay and fight?
The funeral of Dod ‘ACAB’ Copland – one of Aberdeen’s best known personalities – will take place on Friday, August 5.
The former frontman of punk band Toxik Ephex, popular piper and ‘weel kent’ city centre busker passed away on Thursday July 28 after a period of illness aged 59.
Portland police announced on Thursday that they arrested 47-year-old Christopher Knipe on second-degree murder charges, for the 2019 murder of a 23-year old anarchist, Sean “Armenio” Kealiher. Kealiher, a well known anarchist and antifascist in the Portland area, was murdered in a hit and run a few blocks away from Cider Riot, a local brewery known for hosting antifascist events and the center of a violent far-Right attack on May Day of that same year. Kealiher’s murder set off a wave of far-Right harassment against his family, which was documented in the podcast series, Dying for a Fight.