The “Black Pill”

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Some inconvenient truths for white members of the working class, from a white member of the working class.

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Don’t Forget Me – Kurdish Music from a Refugee Camp #Twitterkurds

Music is therapy and this is being recognised more and more these days. If you are stuck on a remote pacific island in hellish conditions the outlet provided by music can really help you to stay positive and fulfil some of your dreams amid dank oppression. A refugee who has been accomplishing much while indefinitely incarceration is Farhad Bandesh, a Kurd who escaped from Iran’s draconian Islamic regime only to have the lead boot of another crush him again.

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Taking a Shower at #Moria on #Lesvos: Christmas 2017 in #Europe

I arrived in the Moria camp in the early afternoon. It’s December the 25th and so its Christmas. Like always the smell of burning plastic was everywhere. While many people were celebrating the birth of a refugee in Bethlehem, who was born about 2000 years ago, I went to the Moria camp on Lesvos.

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Cars of Hope at #Lesvos: “Despair in Peoples Eyes, Hunger, Broken Shoes, Improvised Tents and Wet Clothes. Welcome to Europe!”

It’s cold on Lesvos. Around 4 or 5 degrees Celsius or even less during the night. The military run Moria camp is on a hill and the wind makes it even feel colder. Images in my head. The same images that I saw many times before on the Balkan route. Despair in peoples eyes, hunger, broken shoes, improvised tents and wet clothes. Welcome to Europe!

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Kids, Klezmer and Black Bloc- #Gothenburg 30/9

I was asked to write a piece for the Swedish anarchist magazine Brand about the resistance against the Nazi march in Gothenburg 30/9. The subject of the issue was joy and militancy, here you go!

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Nikos Maziotis Attacked at #Korydallos #Prison

Nikos Maziotis was assaulted by another prisoner while recovering from his recent hunger strike. The assault left him with broken ribs and head injuries.

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The #Barcelona Interview Series: Aitor from Embat: “For me to Leave Spain is a Strategic Move”

Tomorrow there will be elections in Catalonia. On Novermber 20 we spoke with Aitor Tarradella of Embat.

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#Athens, #Greece: Solidarity Fundraiser for an Anarchist Prisoner Arrested on the 6th of December

Call for solidarity fundraiser for a comrade who was arrested during the annoversary of the police murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos on the 6th of December 2017.

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Solidarity With the ‘Strike of Closed Doors’ of 209 People in the Transit Camp #Deggendorf

On Friday, 15th of December 2017, 209 people from Sierra Leone in the transit camp in Deggendorf, Germany started a ‘strike of closed doors’. In protest, the children and young people refused to attend the German class as access to other educational institutions is denied. The adults haven’t left the accommodation and denied to work in the 80 cents jobs. On Saturday, 16th of December 2017 they started a hunger strike. The protest involves 44 children and young people, as well as 40 women (among them 12 pregnant women) and 125 men. The starting point of the protest was the violent deportation of a man from Sierra Leone on Friday morning, which was stopped in the last minute at the airport.

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The Hague #Netherlands: Comrade Arrested on Suspicion of Incitement in #Schilderswijk

Yesterday evening a comrade was arrested the Schilderswijk in The Hague. He was arrested for allegedly spreading a pamphlet about the Mitch Henriquez case. He is being accused of incitement and will be remanded in custody this afternoon. At this moment he is being held in the police station on De Heemstraat.

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