Netherlands: Rave for the Underground, May 2

From Rave Voor De Rafelranden

Like every year, we as Rave Voor De Rafelranden, stand up against the established society. For and with people who do not fit into it, and who do not want to. This demonstration is for the underground, the free thinkers, the activists and the makers. What was once ours has become unaffordable. We demand spaces to create, to play, to experiment and to exist. An Utrecht with space for everyone. We break through learned helplessness and together take back power over our own lives. We refuse to be reduced to consumers and spectators.

TOTW: Persistence or Purity? The Mirror of Non-State Power

What does it say about anarchism that it so often chooses immediacy, aversion to form, and radical transparency—does it desire to win, or merely to remain pure while disappearing?

Zeal for insurrection burns bright and dies young.

However, if there is anything to be learned from formations like Hezbollah or the Houthis, it is not their ideology but their refusal of immediacy—their stubborn commitment to duration.

As they did not erupt fully formed, they sedimented. Layer by layer, year by year, they became difficult to uproot.

These Women Provided Illegal Abortions Before Roe v. Wade. Will Activists Have to Go Underground Again?

from democracy now.

As Roe v. Wade faces unprecedented attacks across the country, we look at the history of a radical underground feminist organization called Jane that provided safe abortions for women despite the procedure being illegal. The story begins in 1969, when a group of women in Chicago set up a hotline to offer counseling and provide abortion services to women in need. To reach the underground feminist abortion service, all you had to do was call a phone number and ask for Jane. The group went on to provide at least 11,000 women with abortions before Roe was decided in 1973. In Part 2 of our discussion, we speak with two former members of Jane: Laura Kaplan and Alice Fox. Laura Kaplan is the author of “The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service.”

Hoodie Melo takes anarchist resistance underground

Over the last couple of years, we here at ANEWS have been on the cutting edge of reporting live and directly on the NBA’s most famous anarchist basketball player, Carmelo Anthony. We’ve covered stories of him wearing a black arm band in solidarity with anarchist resistance world wide and hoodie Melo single handly keeping the NY Knicks franchise afloat in the worst place on earth, NYC. Today, we’re taking a look at Melo and answering the question of – where is he now? The answer may surprise some.

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