ANews Podcast 280 – 9.16.22
From ANews Podcast
Welcome to this week’s podcast. This podcast is on anarchist activity, ideas, and comments from the previous week on anarchistnews.org.
Lima, Peru: New Anarchist Social Center!
We want to greet and join this new project that the cumpxs of Lima are carrying out. The Manuel Gonzalez Prada Social Center opened its doors this Saturday, September 17. It has a copious library, newspaper library, and several rooms for cultural and social events. The cumpxs inform us that soon they will inaugurate a space for the children of the neighborhood.
Cheers!
-Furia Del Libro Anarquista
“Rights and freedoms are never granted - they must be taken.”
Manuel González Prada
The Integrity of Marius Mason
From WFHB Community Radio, Kite Line
This week, we share the second part of a recorded discussion hosted by the Civil Liberties Defense Center. CLDC has been at the forefront of anti-repression legal work for decades now, working on many of the Green Scare cases, in which the FBI infamously hounded and smashed radical environmental organizing between 2000 and 2008. In this discussion, Chava and Lauren speak with Letha, a long-time supporter for Marius Mason, who is the last remaining Green Scare prisoner.
Four Months in an Anti-Authoritarian Platoon in Ukraine
Jonathan Purkis and Helen Wilkinson of King Ink
From Mixcloud, Under the Pavement Radio
Jonathan Purkis is an anarchist writer, a tutor, and an independent academic.
Noam Chomsky on David Graeber’s Pirate Enlightenment
From ArtReview by Noam Chomsky and Nika Dubrovsky
Nika Dubrovsky speaks to Noam Chomsky about pirate societies, ‘bewildered herds’ and the fragility of the present in the context of the late anthropologist David Graeber’s final book
Iranian Anarchists on Protests in Response to Police Murder of Mahsa Amini
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation by Black Rose / Rosa Negra – International Relations Committee
On September 13th, 2022, 22 year old Mahsa Amini was arrested by an Iranian Guidance Patrol (also known as ‘morality police’). Mahsa was arrested in Tehran for not abiding by laws relating to dress. Three days later, on September 16th, police informed Mahsa’s family that she had “experienced heart failure” and had fallen into a coma for two days before passing away.
Organizing Disruption: Fiction that Calls Us to Action
From The Institute for Anarchist Studies
Review: Kung Li Sun, Begin the World Over (AK Press, 2022) & Robert Evans, After the Revolution (AK Press, 2022)
Dave Foreman and the First Green Scare Case
From Counterpunch
Dave Foreman, whose vision spawned a radical wave of the US environmental movement, passed away this week at the age of 74 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was controversial, he was stubborn, but he wasn’t one to compromise the fight to save wilderness and open space. The following piece on Foreman’s foray with federal law enforcement first appeared in our book, The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink. – Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank
Romina Akemi on Chile, Anarchism, Violeta Parra, and Feminism
From Time Talks podcast
Writings by Dr. Akemi: https://wlu.academia.edu/RominaAGreenRioja
Music by AwareNess: https://awareness0.bandcamp.com/
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Anarchist history roundup Aug. 2022
The Sparrow’s Nest Another set of scans now available from the busy Nottingham comrades:
https://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/index.php/14-news-and-events/248-new-additions-to-the-digital-library-jul-aug-2022
B Traven For Beginners
Reviews of my work in the Nazi press, with few exceptions and those only recently, were always favorable. That arouses my suspicion–and even more the fact that they have not banned all of my books, but only four.
-B. Traven, private letter, June 8, 1933
I am “Bread-Pilled” by Kropotkin’s Vision of Social Utopia
From Center for a Stateless Society by Hank Pellissier
I just finished reading The Conquest of Bread by the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921). The book inspired Catalonia syndicalists in the Spanish Civil War, Magonism in Mexico, and the Occupy movement but still… I wasn’t expecting anything, I thought I’d be very bored because the book was written in 1892, I was sure it was going to be outdated, irrelevant, but instead, to my surprise…
Iran: Statement of the Federation of Anarchism Era to Anonymous fellow confreres
“FEAR HAS NO PLACE IN FREEDOM” (Anonymous)
“Anonymous” has managed to hack several government websites, including the hypocritical Radio & TV station (iribnews.ir) in recent days, after the Shia Islamic “Moral Security Police” brutal murder of the 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa (Jina) Amini. They support the uprising of the Iranian people against the ruling fascist Islamic State in Iran. We support Anonymous!