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PDF: “Akcja Bezpośrednia” – Latest anarchist attacks and reports 2011-2015 (Poland)
Wednesday, September 16th, 2015
Issue about latest direct actions in Poland since 2011 to this year’s summer.
The title is translated as: “Direct Action”
Polish language PDF here: Akcja Bezpośrednia
Long live Black Praxis
Tags: Akcja Bezpośrednia, ALF, Animal Liberation, Anti-Fascist, Black International of Anarchists of Praxis, Grecja w Ogniu, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), International Revolutionary Front, PDF, Poland, Zine
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Dark Nights #43 : ‘Beyond right and wrong’ & ‘Evi Statiri on hunger strike 14/9′ – Sept 2015 (ACN)
Sunday, September 13th, 2015
September 2015 version of the international anarchist anti-prisons newsletter, released with intent to spread info about the hunger strike of Evi Statiri, life companion of Gerasimos Tsakalos of CCF.
PDF: Dark Nights #43 – Sept 2015
1. “Beyond right and wrong” by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – FAI/IRF.
2. 14th Sept: Evi Statiri starting hunger strike in Korydallos prison.
3. “From the land of the forgotten against oblivion…” by Olga Ekonomidou of CCF.
4. Direct Action Chronology.
5. Chile: Words from anarchist prisoner Sergio Álvarez in memory of Sebastián
‘Angry’ Oversluij.
6. Malaysia: Police raid anarchist centre Rumah Api.
http://325.nostate.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/dark-nights-43.pdf
Tags: Chile, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire : Imprisoned Members Cell, Dark Nights, Evi Statiri, Greece, Hunger Strike, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), International Revolutionary Front, Korydallos Prison, Malaysia, Olga Economidou, PDF, Rumah Api (social center/house project), Sebastián Oversluij Seguel, Sergio Alvarez, Zine, “Beyond right and wrong”
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‘Keep on Rockin’ – Chapter 11 of the book ‘Radical Peace: People Refusing War’ By William T. Hathaway (USA)
Friday, September 11th, 2015
Keep On Rockin’
Chapter 11 of the book
RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War
By William T. Hathaway
RADICAL PEACE is a collection of reports from antiwar activists, the true stories of their efforts to change our warrior culture. An American exchange student in one of my courses here in Germany contributed the following essay about how she became an anarchist for peace. Because of her activism she wishes to remain anonymous.
Jason was my boy-friend for a while in high school. It wasn’t a match made in heaven. Looking back, I think the main thing we had in common was that I wanted a boy-friend and he wanted a girl-friend. Other than that there wasn’t much between us, as we discovered whenever we tried to talk about anything. I broke up with him when he asked me to go rabbit hunting with him. We stayed friends, though, probably because since it was obvious we could never be a real couple, neither of us had hard feelings.
We both left town after graduation; I went to college, Jason went to the marines. Two years later we were both back home; I was on summer vacation, Jason was on medical leave after having half his leg blown off in Iraq. He’d been riding in a truck that hit a mine. (more…)
Tags: Anti-Militarism, Anti-War, Iraq, Radical Peace: People Refusing War, Sabotage, USA, William T. Hathaway
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“Our Day Will Come” : In solidarity with Evi Statiri and CCF – Imprisoned Members Cell (Book)
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
This booklet is being re-edited to correct numerous errors in grammar and spelling. New version coming soon…
Attending to the solidarity call to Evi Statiri we share with you a book which speaks about what was triggered after the arrest of the fugitive Christos Xiros, the discovery of an escape plan by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – Imprisoned Members Cell; the subsequent manhunt against comrade Aggeliki Spyropoulo and her detention with relatives and friends of CCF comrades, and finally, the hunger strike for over 30 days in which they put their lives at risk.
This book also contains a prologue by CCF- Imprisoned Members Cell.
We are interested that the experiences of CCF`s escape attempt and subsequent hunger strike could be transmitted as an expression of anarchic ability to build our offense in an autonomous way, as a part of our defense and dissemination of every indomitable and antagonist attitude against Power.
The most of the text were taken from the related anarchic webs.
Also, this book has a Spanish version, with translations made by us and other comrades.
Comrades interested in the edition of this book on their own territories, could write to our e-mail.
Without another word, we share this book with you.
Sin Banderas Ni Fronteras, núcleo de agitación antiautoritaria.
sinbanderas.nifronteras@riseup.net
Chile/ Septiembre 2015.
Tags: Aggeliki Spyropoulou, CCF Escape case, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire : Imprisoned Members Cell, Evi Statiri, Greece, PDF, Sin Banderas Ni Fronteras, Zine
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‘The Transformer’ – Chapter 10 of the book ‘Radical Peace: People Refusing War’ By William T. Hathaway (USA)
Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
The Transformer
Chapter 10 of the book
RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War
By William T. Hathaway
A former student of mine works as a janitor. After graduating from college he worked as a market researcher and an advertising salesperson, but both jobs soured him on the corporate world. He hated being a junior suit, and the thought of becoming a senior suit was even worse.
He finds being a janitor a much better job. He’s left alone, it’s low pressure, and what he does improves the world rather than worsens it. The pay’s lousy but that’s standard these days. He loves music, so he loads up his MP3 and grooves to the sounds. Although the work is routine, it’s brightened by occasional bits of human interest: used condoms in executive wastebaskets, marijuana butts in the emergency stairwell, a twenty-dollar bill under a desk. His shift is from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., and afterwards he hits the late-night clubs, where he can enjoy the scene with the advantage of being sober. He works for a janitorial service company, and one of their clients is a defense contractor — not secret weapons, just ordinary supplies. (more…)
Tags: Anti-War, Radical Peace: People Refusing War, Sabotage, USA, William T. Hathaway
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Propaganda en memoria del compañero Sebastián Oversluij (Chile)
Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
En memoria del compañero anarquista Sebastián “Angry” Oversluij, difundimos folletos que toman ilustraciones y frases que el compañero plasmó en sus canciones. Cualquiera puede imprimirlos y nosotros/as ya lo estamos difundiendo entre compañeros/as y espacios afines.
Invitamos a visitar nuestro blog, el cual funciona hoy como un archivo de la memoria en torno al compañero Angry, en donde todos/as pueden encontrar sus dibujos, reflexiones y los discos de sus proyectos musicales.
Pronto actualizaremos el blog con motivo de los 2 años desde que el compañero fue asesinado al momento de asaltar un banco.
http://nuncaderodillasblog.wordpress.com/
nuncaderodillas pdf
CON SEBASTIÁN OVERSLUIJ, CLAUDIA LÓPEZ, JHONY CARIQUE Y MAURICIO MORALES EN LA MEMORIA
LA REVUELTA GERMINA, LA INSURRECCIÓN NUNCA TERMINA!
Tags: Chile, Counter-info, Santiago, Sebastián Oversluij Seguel
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PDF: The Phoenix Project – Initiatives of Combative Anarchy, 2013-2014
Monday, August 24th, 2015
Sent from Untorelli Press:
A publication collecting the first 14 actions of the Phoenix Project.
This is a minor contribution to the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist
Prisoners. Strength to all imprisoned comrades and those on the run!
For reading:
http://untorellipress.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/phoenix-project.pdf
For printing:
http://untorellipress.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/phoenix-project-imposed.pdf
Tags: International Week for Anarchist Prisoners, PDF, Phoenix Project, Zine
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PDF: Conspiración Acrata #21 – Publicacion Anarquista Insurreccional e Internacionalista (Mexico)
Sunday, August 23rd, 2015
Tags: Conspiracion Acrata, Mexico, PDF, Zine
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‘The Split’ – Chapter 9 of the book ‘Radical Peace: People Refusing War’ By William T. Hathaway (USA, Israel)
Thursday, August 20th, 2015
The Split
Differences over Israel tear apart a Jewish marriage
Chapter 9 the book
RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War
By William T. Hathaway
Stan and Hannah Cooper are friends of mine from college days. Both are Jewish, but they have diametrically opposed views about Israel, and their differences have become so bitter that they’ve decided to divorce. As the three of us talked about this, it became clear that their dispute is a microcosm of the conflict that is tearing the Jewish community apart and also destroying lives in an increasingly large part of the world.
William: Your differences must have become quite serious if you’ve decided to end your marriage after all these years.
Stan: Well, these are very serious issues. If you take the Holocaust seriously, you have to support Israel. And Hannah doesn’t. If she has her way, if the people she supports come to power in Israel and the USA, they’ll stop resisting the terrorists and become holier than thou pacifists while the Arabs push the Jews into the sea and blow up half the USA. Then the pacifists will cry about what a tragedy it all is.
Well, I’m not going through another tragedy. I’m not going to see America and Israel destroyed because we didn’t have the courage to stand up to fanatics. I’m not going to have our generation go through something like our grandparent’s went through. Once is enough, once was way too many, and now we finally have to defend ourselves. (more…)
Tags: Anti-Semitism, Anti-War, Israel, Palestine, Radical Peace: People Refusing War, USA, William T. Hathaway
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PDF: Anarchism and Prisons / Anarquismo y Carceles (Rodolfo Montes de Oca)
Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
325 receives and transmits:
From 23 to August 30, 2015, you will be conducting a week of solidarity and agitation by anarchist’s prisoners; within the framework of this mobilization we will be doing a series of deliveries of brochures and books to further deepen together in abolitionism topic and prisoner’s solidarity.
To continue the delivery of information, we refer the brochure “Anarchism and Prisons” of Rodolfo Montes de Oca has been published in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Spain, Mexico and Venezuela.
“The future anarchist society cannot be conceivable to the existence of prisons and psychiatric institutions, as these absorb and steal itself, the genesis of all libertarian transformation, which is, as we have repeated many times, freedom the individual. In addition, the libertarian thought, sees prison as one of the pillars on which the whole capitalist socio-economic system is sustained. On this the Sardinian anarchist prisoner, Federico Pais, wrote: To attack jail is to attack capital!”
Anarchism and prisons, is a brochure that includes a didactic way of the abolitionist thought of anarchist thinkers, in order to generate ideas and proposals that contribute to generate movement of solidarity with persons deprived of their liberty. But above all to reveal the true purpose of prisons and galleys.
To read the booklet in Spanish here:
http://corazondefuegorecs.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/anarquismo-y-carceles_web.pdf
For total freedom and an end to the prosecution of: Ignacio Muñoz Delgado, Javier Pino, Juan Flores, Nataly Casanova, Sergio Álvarez, Natalia Collado, Enrique Guzmán, Guillermo Duran, Manuel Espinoza, Víctor Zuñiga Quijada, Felipe Román Toledo, Natalia Alvarado Gattas, María Paz Vera, Diego González, Hans Niemeyer Salinas, Tamara Sol Farías Vergara, Marcelo Villarroel and prissoners of Security Bank assault (Chile); Fernando Barcenas, Abraham Cortés and Coordinación Informal de Presxs en Resistencia (México); Mónica Caballero, Francisco Solar, Claudio Lavazza, Gabriel Pombo Da Silva, Enrique Balaguer Pérez, Paul Jara Zevallos, Javier García Castro, José María Pirla Oliván, Honorio Gómez Alfaro, Noelia Cotelo Riveiro, Jorge Linares Izquierdo and Javier Grijalbo Adan (Spain); Marco Camenisch (Switzerland); Prisoners of case “Breite Strasse” and Thomas Meyer-Falk (Germany); Silvia Guerini, Costantino Ragusa, Billy Bernasconi, Francesco Puglisi, Sergio Maria Stefani, Alfredo Cospito and Nicola Gai (Italy); Argiris Dalios, Fivos Harisis, Giannis Mihailidis, Dimitris Politis, Grigoris Sarafoudis, Nikolas Romanos, Grigoris Tsironis, Evi Statiri, Spyros Christodoulou, Argyris Ntalios, Andreas-Dimitris Bourzoukos, Giorgos Karagiannidis, Tasos Theofilou, Nikos Maziotis, Kostas Gournas, Spyros Mandylas, Antonis Stamboulos, prisoners of the Freedom Fighter prisoner’s network (DAK) and CCF prisoner cell (Greece); Fénix Operation (Czech Republic); Ihar Alinevich, Mikalai Dziadok, Artsiom Prakapenka, Pavel Syramolatau, Aliaksandr Frantskievich y Jauhen Vas’kovich (Bieloruusia); Ilya Romano, Stepan Zimin, Alexey Polikhovich y Aleksandr Kolchenko (Rusia); Nicole Kish (Canada); Taame Iti y Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara (New Zealand); José Manuel Del Moral (Venezuela).
For the end of the prosecution against: Felicity Ryder, Gustavo Rodríguez, Mario “el tripa” Lopez and Carlo “el chivo” López.
In memory of Sacco and Vanzetti: Enough of criminalizing Freedom Fighters and Class War Prisoners.
Tags: Anarquismo y Carceles, International Week for Anarchist Prisoners, PDF, Rodolfo Montes de Oca, Zine
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Anarchy Live! – The Writings of Anarchist Prisoner Michael Kimble (USA)
Sunday, August 16th, 2015
From Anarchy Live!
For reading: http://anarchylive.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/anarchylive.pdf
For printing: http://anarchylive.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/anarchylive-imposed.pdf
A collection of some of Michael Kimble’s recent writings; plus a new interview with
Michael on his life, prison struggle in Alabama, being gay, prison solidarity,
recent anti-police struggles, civilization, and anarchy.
CONTENTS
Introduction
“To My Comrades”
“Where Do We Go From Here”
“Up the Ante”
“From Afar”
“To the Carrboro Bookfair”
“Revolution Versus Reform”
June 11th statement
Interview
Tags: Michael Kimble, PDF, USA, Zine
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‘Generations of Resistance to War’ – Chapter 8 of the book ‘Radical Peace: People Refusing War’ By William T. Hathaway (USA)
Saturday, August 15th, 2015
Generations of Resistance to War
Chapter 8 the book
RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War
By William T. Hathaway
A Granny for Peace told of finding young allies in the struggle against military recruiting. Due to the PATRIOT Act, she wishes to remain nameless.
It’s never easy being a parent or a child. The generations always have friction between them, a conflict between the elders’ need to give guidance and youths’ need to find their own way. I grew up in the 1950s, when the USA was very conservative and bound by traditions. My parents’ generation had grown up in the Depression amid poverty and then struggled through World War Two with its threat of death and destruction. By the time they were ready to start families, they were fixated on stability and security. They measured their progress by their possessions: buying their first car, first television, first house. Their morality centered on controlling sexuality and protecting private property. Their religion was a death cult of stern patriarchs, obedient virgins, innocent babies, and threats of eternal torture. Their deepest philosophy was, “There is no free lunch.” The peak of their scientific achievement was the hydrogen bomb. Fear was their strongest emotion. (more…)
Tags: Anti-War, Radical Peace: People Refusing War, USA, William T. Hathaway
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Dark Nights #42 : ‘In Cold Blood’, ‘The Fleas and the Jackal’ – August 2015 (ACN)
Thursday, August 13th, 2015
PDF: Dark Nights #42
1. ‘In Cold Blood’ by CCF/FAI-IRF.
2. ‘The Fleas and the Jackal’ by L.
3. International Solidarity Week for Imprisoned Anarchists – August 23-30 2015.
4. Direct Action Chronology.
5. Letter from anarchic nihilist comrade Sergio Alvarez.
6. Letter from Anarchist prisoner Claudio Lavazza.
7. Vatan Budak, wounded in Suruç bombing died.
8. Anarchist Ignacio Munoz Delgado detained for carrying an explosive device.
9. Update about imprisoned comrades Javier Pino and Natalia Collado.
10. Solidarity with Evi Statiri, Athena Tsakalos and Nikos Romanos.
Resist / Organise / Replicate
http://325.nostate.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dark-nights-42.pdf
Tags: Athena Tsakalou, Claudio Lavazza, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire : Imprisoned Members Cell, Dark Nights, Evi Statiri, Ignacio Munoz Delgado, International Week for Anarchist Prisoners, Javier Pino, Natalia Collao, Nikos Romanos, PDF, Sergio Alvarez, The Fleas and the Jackal, Vatan Budak, Zine
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Three CCF text (re)designs by Untorelli Press / Announcement of New Publication Series (Untorelli Press)
Thursday, August 13th, 2015
From Untorelli Press:
Three Conspiracy of Cells of Fire texts, newly (re)designed for easy distribution.
THE SUN STILL RISES
(http://untorellipress.noblogs.org/post/2015/08/04/the-sun-still-rises/)
Formative text of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – Imprisoned Members Cell critiquing authoritarian power and advocating for the new anarchist guerrilla.
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ANARCHISTS
(http://untorellipress.noblogs.org/post/2015/08/04/a-conversation-between-anarchists/)
A dialogue between Mexican anarchists and the imprisoned members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire.
COMMUNIZATION: THE SENILE DECAY OF ANARCHY
(http://untorellipress.noblogs.org/post/2015/08/04/communization-the-senile-decay-of-anarchy/)
Recent text by the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – Imprisoned Members Cell critiquing the pseudo-anarchist marxism that has gained popularity in recent years.
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These are the first three texts in our new series of publications echoing the words and deeds of the informal anarchist war against power. The Anarchist Guerrilla Series is dedicated to Darko Mathers, nihilist-anarchist of Dark Matter Publications, who passed away in 2014. More publications in the series will be released in the coming months.
Tags: Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Greece, PDF, Zine
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Wildfire: An Anarchist Prison Newsletter #2 (USA)
Thursday, August 13th, 2015
From Wildfire
Download Issue #2 – http://wildfire.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/wildfire-2.pdf
Anti-prison zine produced by stateside comrades. Check it out.
CONTENTS
- “All Prisoners are Political” by Sean Swain
- “Remember the Dead, Solidarity for the Living” by Brandon Baxter
- A letter from Manuel Salas
- Call for support from Anarchist Black Cross – Florida Prison Chapter
- A letter from Todd Shepard
- Introduction by Christopher L. Young
- “From an Alabama Prison” by Fahamivu Amon
- An update from Gender Anarky
- A letter from Julia Wheelwright
- “Silent Scream” by Francisca Orellana Polanko
- “Buckin in the BOP” by anonymous
- “Federal Sentencing Reforms” by anonymous
- A letter from Michael Kimble
- “Chaotic Confinement” by Charles Chatman
- A Letter from Blacc Lion
- A chronology of the last four months of revolt, repression, and attack.
- “For Spyros Dravilas: Awaiting the Hour of Vengeance”
Tags: PDF, USA, Wildfire (Prison Zine), Zine
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‘From Cheerleader to Enemy of the State’ – Chapter 7 of the book ‘Radical Peace: People Refusing War’ By William T. Hathaway (USA)
Sunday, July 19th, 2015
From Cheerleader to Enemy of the State
Chapter 7 of the book
RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War
By William T. Hathaway
The long, flouncy curls from Judy Davis’s cheerleader days are gone. Her straight blonde hair is now cut short. Large blue eyes stand out in a face pale without makeup. Her soft Southern drawl has an undertone of determination. “It’s taken me awhile, but now I’m glad to be considered an ‘unsuitable influence.’ That was how the school board justified my firing. That and ‘deviating from the curriculum.’ It’s like they were implying I was a deviant. And according to their norms, I am.”
The twenty-nine-year-old was fired for teaching her high school students how US foreign policy has provoked terrorism. This struggle with her school board turned her from a Republican into a revolutionary for peace.
“I taught my tenth grade American history class about what the USA has done for decades in the countries in which we now have terrorism. We work with the local oligarchs there to keep the country under control for our economic advantage. We support dictators and also the kind of managed democracy we have in the USA, where the only political parties that have a chance are those aligned with business and the private ownership of resources. People in those countries are tired of being kept at the bottom. They’re tired of CIA coups and assassinations of progressive leaders. So now they’re defending themselves the only way they can. And they’re getting pretty good at it. (more…)
Tags: Anti-War, Radical Peace: People Refusing War, USA, William T. Hathaway
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‘Exit Free’ – Chapter 6 of the book ‘Radical Peace: People Refusing War’ By William T. Hathaway (USA)
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
Exit Free
Chapter 6 of the book
RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War
By William T. Hathaway
The following report was contributed by one of the founders of Exit Free, a collective in the USA that helps women leave the military by discharge or desertion.
I’ve become a criminal for peace. How I got there is a complicated story, beginning when the community college where I teach reduced most of its humanities faculty to adjunct status. It saved them a bundle on salaries. We now teach a maximum of three courses per semester, for a really miserable hourly wage with no benefits. They brought in other part-timers to fill the gaps. So the faculty are now mostly freelancers. I ended up with a lot less money but a lot more time.
Several other women I knew were also broke — laid off or dropped out of the McJob economy. We decided to share the misery and formed a collective to make ends meet. One of us had a big empty-nester house from her divorce settlement, so we all moved in. We buy food in bulk, share two cars, planted a big garden, help each other with the things each of us is good at, sometimes quarrel and cry, but mostly we like being together. We feel stronger now than before when it was each of us alone against the neo-con world. (more…)
Tags: Anti-War, Desertion, Exit Free, Radical Peace: People Refusing War, USA, War, William T. Hathaway
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Fragmento del folleto “FAI Recargada” de lxs compañerxs de la Conspiración de Células del Fuego (Grecia)
Tuesday, June 30th, 2015
Compañerxs les compartimos la traducción del fragmento folleto “FAI Recargada” de lxs compañerxs de la Conspiración de Células del Fuego.
Para leer y difundir el texto:
Tags: 'FAI Reloaded', Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire : Imprisoned Members Cell, Greece, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)
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‘Coming Home’ – Chapter 5 of ‘Radical Peace: People Refusing War’ by William T. Hathaway (USA, Iraq, Afghanistan)
Sunday, June 28th, 2015
Coming Home
Chapter 5 of the book
RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War
By William T. Hathaway
RADICAL PEACE is a collection of reports from antiwar activists, the true stories of their efforts to change our warrior culture. In this chapter a mother tells of her son’s return from combat. She wishes to remain anonymous.
My son spent a year fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq in Delta Force. It was the worst year of his life … and of mine. As he told me later, there were times he thought he’d never come home. That was also my constant fear. For 365 days, every time the phone rang I thought it would be a voice from the Pentagon telling me with well-practiced condolence that my son had died a hero.
Jim had joined the army after college. I think he was trying to finally win his father’s approval. The old man was a West Pointer who had served a long military career, including two tours in Vietnam, and retired a colonel. He probably would’ve made general if it hadn’t been for his drinking. He never showed much interest in Jim and me, preferring the camaraderie of his soldier buddies.
We divorced when Jim was in high school. The colonel didn’t ask for visitation rights, and Jim was crushed when it became obvious that his dad didn’t care about seeing him. (more…)
Tags: Afghanistan, Anti-War, Iraq, Radical Peace: People Refusing War, War, William T. Hathaway
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‘Comparing Evils’ – Chapter 4 of the book ‘Radical Peace: People Refusing War’ By William T. Hathaway (USA, Germany, Afghanistan)
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015
Comparing Evils
Chapter 4 of the book
RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War
By William T. Hathaway
Jamal Khan is an Afghan journalist who fled his country because of Taliban persecution and now lives in Germany. We met in the apartment of a mutual friend from the Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft, the German Peace Society. Jamal is mid-forties, thin, with curly brown hair, tan skin, and clear green eyes that take everything in.
Hathaway: “Do you miss your country?”
Khan: “Only when I’m drunk, which isn’t very often. Then I get stupidly sentimental.
“Actually I’m not a big fan of any country. They’re all inhuman. They exist mainly as platforms for power. The rulers promote cultural rituals that make people identify with the place they live. Then they manipulate the people’s patriotic emotions to get them to fight wars for them. We cling to the identification because it gives us a sense of security, of belonging to something greater. But the insecurity we feel is actually generated by the power the rulers have over us.
(more…)
Tags: Afghanistan, Germany, Radical Peace: People Refusing War, USA, William T. Hathaway
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