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It was just announced that Monica and Francisco, two comrades arrested in Barcelona in November, 2013, and accused of terrorism, just a couple years after being fully acquitted of similar charges in Chile, have been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, after having already been locked up over two years awaiting trial.

We ought to share some observations, because in the
management of judicial cases that concern the actions of the
organization as a whole as well as other joined cases, the state
authorities use a series of legal tactics. We think that it is somewhat
important to submit the experience that has been gained after 5 years of
us continuously being in a judicial process, convicted and indicted at
the same time.

As Anarchist Radio Berlin we present an audio recording of a former anarchist prisoner in Belarus who tells about his experiences in jail and how he survived.

The following recording has been made by the Anarchist Group Dortmund (in cooperation with A-Radio Berlin) during a presentation on March 6, 2016.

LISTEN HERE: http://archive.org/details/AnarchyRadio03292016

Report on Rojava: Paul Z. Simons in studio. Radical developments in northern Syria
discussed, also collapse, nihilism, what is at stake. 2.7% of American kids are healthy,
3/4 of UK kids are outside less than prison inmates. AI-produced novel almost wins Ja-
panese literary prize. Eugene Morozov: tech firms now run things, not govts. Action
news, two calls.

Radical Sobriety Montreal welcomes the discussion initiated by Alexander McClelland and Zoe Dodd's article “The revolution will not be sober: the problem with notions of 'radical sobriety' & 'intoxication culture'”. However, we feel an obligation to clear up a number of misconceptions. While we cannot speak for all groups using the term 'radical sobriety', since the term does not refer to a unified discourse, we are able to speak for our group and the positions it holds. Please note that below, unless otherwise specified, we use the terms 'addict' and 'drug user' to also include alcoholics and people who drink.

I should say that my views have changed and that the prior posts of this blog are no longer accurate of how I feel now. I should say how that is, a little, apropos the ism in general, anarchism, primitivism, nihilism, and radical ecology.
Firstly I’ve changed my attitude toward the act of identifying with or believing in something. Beliefs change and restructure with each other all the time. The mind or soul is something of an open space for these, something I like to garden or tend to like a garden, but I am not trying to keep any of the crops in it eternally alive or perfectly protected, and this includes any principle which an attitude of an ism can seize and protect and attempt to keep alive. Maybe some are like trees that will outlast me so to speak, but everything dies if it’s a thing. Another metaphor is that beliefs are like a set of sandcastles, which disappear in the waves, and the mind is where they are spontaneously being built anew, despite their inevitable disappearance. The point is the gardening or the sandcastle making activities themselves, the background conditions that allow them and must be worked with, more so than the crops or sandcastles themselves. Now, I realize this point can itself be suffixed with an ism, and in that case, I am an ist of whatever it is. But still I distance myself from the ism’d phenomenon. So what is it to ism?

From CrimethInc.

This is part of a series expressing an anarchist critique of democracy.

Democracy is the most universal political ideal of our day. George Bush invoked it to justify invading Iraq; Obama congratulated the rebels of Tahrir Square for bringing it to Egypt; Occupy Wall Street claimed to have distilled its pure form. From the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea to the autonomous region of Rojava, practically every government and popular movement calls itself democratic.

The revolution will not be sober: the problem with notions of “radical sobriety” & “intoxication culture”

From HIV HEPC Anarchist - By Zoë Dodd & Alexander McClelland

As radicals and writers working on issues of criminalization and drug liberation, we believe that altering the relationships we have with our minds and bodies through substance use is a form of resistance and emancipation. For us, drug liberation is the emancipation of drugs deemed illegal and the people who use them from the control of the state and social structures. In our experience, drug use can facilitate authentic, compassionate, and emotionally bonded social relationships that are not possible otherwise. Drug use can be therapeutic and provide autonomy outside of the pathologizing system of western medicine for coping with trauma and difficult life experiences.

UPDATE: The squat was evicted this afternoon by 12 vans of riot police, a few hours after being announced in the morning. See report on the eviction here. 8 people have been arrested. The Calais authorities clearly intend to enforce their “zero tolerance” clampdown on migrant and other autonomous spaces in the town centre, and with hundreds of CRS now stationed in Calais they have the force to do so.