When the Rains Come Back, by Cadwell Turnbull

  • Posted on: 15 July 2019
  • By: thecollective

From We Will Remember Freedom

We Will Remember Freedom is a monthly fiction podcast series edited by Margaret Killjoy. Each episode brings a new story written by authors who are willing to imagine worlds without oppression or worlds where we fight against that oppression.

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Anews Podcast 123 – 7.12.19

  • Posted on: 14 July 2019
  • By: thecollective

From Anews Podcast

Editorial: By Max Res
TOTW- Civ or Anti-Civ, and Models for Behaviour... with Aragorn! and Ariel

sound editing by Greg;
what’s new was written by Jackie and Greg, and narrated by Chisel and Greg
Music:
1) Alpha Blondy – Abortion is a Crime
2) Kraftwerk – It's More Fun to Computer
3) The InkSpots – I Don't Want To Set the World On Fire

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On Willem Van Spronsen’s Action against the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma

  • Posted on: 14 July 2019
  • By: thecollective

From CrimethInc.

On July 13, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while apparently taking action to disable the fleet of buses that serve the Northwest Detention Center, a private immigration detainment facility. His final statement, reproduced below, conveys that he was acting in response to the continuous raids and deportations carried out by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE). His action occurred on the one-year anniversary of a hunger strike inside the Northwest Detention Center and an encampment outside. You can read a list of other acts of resistance that have occurred inside the Northwest Detention Center here.

We Are The Fire That Will Melt ICE – Rest in power, Will Van Spronsen [Olympia WA]

  • Posted on: 14 July 2019
  • By: thecollective

From Puget Sound Anarchists, Submitted Anonymously

Early this morning around 4am our friend and comrade Will Van Spronsen was shot and killed by the Tacoma police. All we know about what lead up to this comes from the cops, who are notoriously corrupt and unreliable sources for such a narrative. The story that we do have is that Will attempted to set fire to several vehicles, outbuildings and a propane tank outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma which houses hundreds of immigrants awaiting hearings or deportations. He successfully set one vehicle on fire and then exchanged gunfire with Tacoma police officers who fatally shot him. He was pronounced dead on the scene. We find his actions inspiring. The vehicles outside the detention facility are used to forcibly remove people from their homes and deport them, often to situations where they will face severe danger or death. Those vehicles being destroyed is only a start of what is needed. We wish the fires Will set had freed all the inmates and razed the entire Northwest Detention Center to the ground. And we miss our friend and wish from the bottom of our hearts that his action had not ended in his death.

An Anarchist Solution to Global Warming

  • Posted on: 13 July 2019
  • By: thecollective

From Aotearoa/New Zealand Anti-Capitalist Green Front by Peter Gelderloos

How would anarchists suggest we reorganize society in order to decrease the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and to survive an already changed world?

There is no single anarchist position, and many anarchists refuse to offer any proposal at all, arguing that if society liberates itself from State and capitalism, it will change organically, not on the lines of any blueprint. Besides, the attitude of policy, seeing the world from above and imposing changes, is inextricable from the culture that is responsible for destroying the planet and oppressing its inhabitants.

Anarchy Bang: Introducing Episode 28 - Terrorism

  • Posted on: 12 July 2019
  • By: worker

From Anarchy Bang

This week we will be discussing terrorism. Terrorism is the threat or use of violence in the pursuit of political goals. Obviously states use terrorism all the time to control and put fear in their constituent populations. The border situation terrifies both the people crossing the border and anyone living within range of ICE policing, border "asylum" camps, or the militarized border itself. This week we'll be discussing anarchist views of terror, Adam Curtis' Power of Nightmares that links 19th century and 20th century views on terror. We'll discuss how the 21st century continues in this vein and how anarchists should confound politics of terror but end up being a kind of booster for statist terror itself.

Anarchist Comrade Nikos Romanos Released from Prison in Greece

  • Posted on: 11 July 2019
  • By: rfa

Anarchist comrade Nikos Romanos was released from prison in Greece yesterday after six years of imprisonment.

Nikos was a close friend of Alexis Grigoropoulos, an anarchist teenager who was murdered in Exarcheia by the police in 2008, sparking the Greek anarchist insurrection.

Nikos Romanos was arrested in February 2013 with 3 more people and charged with attempted armed robbery at the Agricultural Bank and TT Hellenic Postbank in Velvento, Kozani.

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