Open letter from Warsaw: We do not agree with the destruction of the ROD gardens!

Our friends from ROD garden in Warsaw needs support! Here you can read their open letter. Only contact them via mail, if you want to support their struggle.

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Warsaw, August 10th 2016

ROD is the name of a community garden project located in Warsaw city, Poland. It is cared for by a collective linked to the European network Reclaim the Fields. RTF opposes itself to land-grabbing in Europe and to the global food market. On the area of abandoned allotment gardens, the collective garden allows for the production of high-quality food, independent energy sources and technologies alternative to those having a destructive impact on our environment. ROD is a horizontaly-organized open space in which knowledge and skills are transferred freely and in an accessible way.

The gardens at ROD are now under threat of destruction by the construction company Dom Development. Dom Development has announced that within 10 days a large part of the area, including all buildings and a wind turbine will be completely demolished. The wind turbine provides clean energy to the project and was built by an international group of artists. The wind turbine has been the subject of workshops on renewable energy at ROD. Continue reading “Open letter from Warsaw: We do not agree with the destruction of the ROD gardens!”

SOCIAL CENTERS FOR ALL! Events by Internationalist Center

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The incidents after No Border Camp affected us deeply. The evictions of several self-organized solidarity-projects in Thessaloniki, Athens and Mytilini were a hard blow to the desire for a good life for all. However, our comrades still fighting on. But we as well will not give up! Therefore we want to discuss further about self-managed spaces and possibilities of common organization togehter with you. For this we are looking forward to two events on the topic of “Social Centers”.

 

 

25/08 5pm Rudolfstraße/Ottostraße: barbecue + solidarity-bar and lecture

03/09 6pm Streetfestival Rudolfstraße: Workshop

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Pictures of the destroyed Orfanotrofeio

On Wednesday the 27th of July three self-organized projects from Refugees and other activists in Thessaloniki were evicted by Cops. The eviction went along with the complete destruction of the Ofranotrofeio, a house jointly occuppied and managed by refugees and other activists. These projects were a token of political solidarity and self-organization. The Orfanotrofeio in specific was contact point for refugees, international activists and many more. The projects and his activists are our friends and comrades. You got our solidarity and support – you are not alone!

Below you see the pictures of the destroyed Orfanotrofeio. Declare your solidarity, take the streets – against the fortress and their fans.

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Women*space Athens calls for solidarity!

For over six months, we have been working to establish a place where women*, queer, trans, and nonbinary people can meet and organize in a safe environment. Away from the usual male dominated spheres, this project is organized with a radical, antiracist, antipatriarchal, and queer feminist framework to fight for the liberation of women*, with and without papers.

 Our project has been highly successful in bringing together many diverse women* living in Athens. We forged a community which is welcoming to migrant women*, who must not only endure the harsh realities that most migrants face, but also must navigate the specific societal oppressions that come with their gender and the intersection of their gender with their race, nationality and religion. Through self-organization, we regularly hold assemblies, events, discussions, film screenings, and moments for casual socializing. Twice we have been forced to relocate our project: one time due to manarchism and the second time by the police, directed by the logics of property and ownership. Despite this, we will continue to resist all efforts that prevent us from taking up the space in society that belongs to us.

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An evening of Solidarity for Rojava

Cafe und Bar Wulberts / 19 Uhr / 30th of July / Rudolfstraße 2 / Dresden

We warmly invite you for the tomorrows event at WULBERTS. We would like to talk with you about the revolution in Rojava and the democratic confederalism. There will be a film screening and information tables. with books and leaflets. Our comrade Ahmado is a refugee from Afrin, Rojava (Northern Syria) and will present his sociocritical rapps. Kurdish food will be served as well. The Internationalist Center is part of the campaign Dresden helps Kobanê and will give informations about the current solidarity work.

*WALK* TOMORROW 2PM MARTIN-LUTHER-PLATZ

Since Thursday, 7/28 4:30pm we occupied the office of the party DIE LINKE („Wir-AG“). The occassion were the forcilby eviction of three self-organized house projects by and for refugees in Thessaloniki the day before. As a first recation anarchists occupied the office of SYRIZA, current ruling party in greece. We declare our solidarity with our comrades and friends in greece. Tomorrow we finish our occupation with a joint walk. Afterwords there are several events at „glitter riot and friends“ festival in Löbtau, where we want to go togehter.

Join us at saturday 2pm at Martin-Luther-Platz! Jointly and solidaric for free spaces and self-organization in greece and everywhere!

SOLIDARITY OCCUPATION

Everyone is mostly welcome to join!

Today (07/28) at 4.30pm we occupied the office of the party DIE LINKE (the so called Wir-AG) in Dresden Neustadt. Thus, we want to declare our solidarity to our comrades and friends in Thessaloniki, Greece. Yesterday at 27th of July 5 am the greek police evicted violently several solidarity projects by and for refugees. The police is directly subordinated to ministry of internal affairs, governd by current ruling SYRIZA-Party. In turn, SYRIZA and DIE LINKE are related to eachother.

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Open preparation meeting for the “Solidarity4All” Camp in Bamberg

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Dear friends, dear comrades,

as you have probably already heard, the “Solidarity4All” Camp will take place in Bamberg from August 4 to August 7. Tere are just a few weeks left and that is why we want to invite everybody who is interested to join us on Monday, August 1 at 7 PM at AZ Conni. At this meeting together we can discuss the journey to Greece, the program and different open tasks.

We’re looking forward to see ya!

In solidarity
critique’n’act

IZ goes NBC

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Since 07/11 the Internationalist Center Dresden is on the way to the No-Border-Camp (NBC) in Thessaloniki. Starting from Frankfurt/Main we’ll go via Milan and Ancona to Greece where on 07/15 the NBC will start. Through the Group “AusserKontrolle” (Out of controll) we were part of the prepetation assembly. At the place we’ll get  activly involved in the creation and set up off the camp via the antikapitalist and antiauthoritorian plattform “Beyond Europe”.

At the NBC, hundreds of people come together to share the experiences that have been made over the last months in particular since the “Summer of Migration”. All over Euope and beyond there are Networks of Solidarity thatl strengthen themselves and fight together against boarder fences, isolation and nationalism. Together they are a transnational movement looking for joint strategies to open up free spaces in order to crack and abolish the European boarder regime. In opposition to a selective Europe and the developments of the last summer, the No Border Camp stands for a further moment of solidarity and the struggle for the freedom of movement. At the camp, common spaces, sharing knowledge and direct actions will be set up to strengthen the movement further.

We share the ideas of the No Border Camp and consider it as a chance to continue working on issues we’ve been dealing with since our “delegation tour” to Greece past winter. Once again, we will get engaged in the current situation of refugees, particularly in Thessaloniki, and report it back to you. Since our tour, we have been intensively dealing with the appropriation and shaping of autonomous spaces. In the city itself, Orfanotrofio, a house squatted by both refugees and other activists as well as the social center Micropolis are examples for diverse solidary networks and self-managed spaces. Furthermore, we want to deepen the networks we’ve been build up so far and looking to set up new ones. Again its suppose to be focussed on the self-organised projects by refugees and activists of the antiauthoritarian space. Following our journey in January, we organised Soli-Parties, wrote articles for the antiracist zine ZAG and antifacist zine AIB (will be published in the next edition), did lectures, shared messages of solidarity and were part of the European-wide Actionday for “Solidarity without Limits” on February 2nd 2016.

With the intension to connect  glocal – global and local – fights of emancipatory manner, we are currently working on the idea of “social centers for all”. So far, we’ve been researching practices and possibilies of social centers nationwide to bring up the idea of building a center such in the city of Dresden. In Thessaloniki, we want to take the chance to deepen our engagements with such projects, update our knowledge and looking for common strategies. Therefore, we will discuss these topics with comrades from Italy, Greece and Germany. We will keep you updated on that issue and report – at the latest – in a workshop we will hold at the Rudolfstraßenfest (3/09/16, Rudolfstraße, 01097 Dresden) to discuss our newly gained knowledge with you. Lookoing on the named practices, we are still working on a paper for an antiauthoritarian internationalism that hopefully will be published in September 2016.