Breaking Borders: on Anarchist Solidarity with Migrants in Chicago
From It's Going Down
January 24, 2024
A critical report, reflection, and analysis on anarchist organizing in Chicago, IL in solidarity with migrants, largely from Venezuela.
From It's Going Down
January 24, 2024
A critical report, reflection, and analysis on anarchist organizing in Chicago, IL in solidarity with migrants, largely from Venezuela.
From The Federation of Anarchism Era
It is necessary for Iranian people, especially anarchists, to form anti-fascist groups to neutralize this regime’s tool of power and authority.
This week, we’re sharing a recent chat with Devi Machete, an anarchist involved in the Tijuana mutual aid project known as Contra Viento y Marea Comedor which distributes clothing, medical supplies, meals and packaged food throughout the week near the border with the USA.
by Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis
Three years ago, on July 13, 2019 in the state of Washington, the antifascist anarchist Willem Van Spronsen fought his last battle in an armed attentat against a migrant detention center. [...] Precisely in this way, in the borders of the E.U. and the Greek territory, a long-running class massacre is being carried out, no less political than the intra-imperialist war in the Russian-Ukrainian zone. A massacre that is met with indifference by the comfortable Europeans and Greeks, bipartisans and leftitsts, just like the Germans who «didn't know» about the nazi death camps. Comrade Willem broke through an invisible border, blowing up the complicit silence, attacking the miserable class distinction, the antisocial cannibalism of those that don't risk their own skin while they inhabit the slaughterhouse, in the territories of the masters, with their own body. With gun at hand.
...for G.Michailidis and the struggle of the migrants in Elaionas
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF HUNGER STRIKER GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS
IMMEDIATE FULFILLMENT OF ELEONAS CAMP’S RESIDENTS’ DEMANDS
UNTIL THE ABOLITION OF PRISONS, BORDERS, AND STATES
from Center for a Stateless Society by William Gillis
Many years ago a latinx friend of mine designed stickers that simply read “Migrants Welcome, Against Borders” (versions in English and Spanish) under a circle-A and the two of us covered the Bay Area with hundreds of them. Amusingly, this provoked the ire of a prominent white anarchist who denounced the phrase as pro-gentrification. She emphatically preferred “Refugees Welcome” because it distinguished those who are coercively displaced from their proper homes by various forms of western imperialism in contrast to those who voluntarily choose to migrate, like (her example) those moving to the bay for tech jobs.
English translation via Dark Nights
AGAINST THE CIES, THE NATIONS, THE BORDERS AND THE SYSTEM THAT PERPETUATES THEM
March on Thursday December 30th.
from It's Going Down
This May Day, A Call For Anarchists To Build Transnational Bridges Of Solidarity With Refugees And Migrants
A special May Day message encouraging the building of bonds across borders and for anarchists, refugees and migrants to find common cause.
by Machete
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CxdXKOdCys
Greece, the edge of “Fortress Europe”, where since the 28th of February 2020 a brutal and inhuman geopolitical “game” has been at play. On the one side Turkey’s Erdogan, that tricked tens of thousands of migrants into believing that the borders to Europe, through Greece, are open for them to enter, in order for Turkey to blackmail the EU into supporting his terror campaign against the Kurds in Syria.