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New Zine: Starting an Anarchist Black Cross – A Guide
The Anarchist Black Cross is an international network of anarchist groups and individuals engaged in practical solidarity with prisoners and broader anti-repression struggles that started over 100 years ago. This zine is a resource for anyone wanting to start an Anarchist Black Cross group. It was a collective effort of people from various ABC groups…
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Movies for screenings
We chose couple of our favorite pop culture (not only) films about prison. Brubaker (1980) Brubaker is a 1980 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It stars Robert Redford as newly arrived prison warden Henry Brubaker, who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas…
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Call Out: International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners 2018
We are coming back with global week of solidarity with anarchist prisoners. Since last year, a lot has changed in our countries, but the general tendency is going in the worse direction with more repressions applied against anarchists not only in Europe but worldwide. With this in mind, we are calling for sixth annual week…
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This was international week of solidarity with anarchist prisoners 2017
August has passed and with it, once again, the international week of solidarity with anarchist prisoners. This year over 20 different solidarity actions were reported to us. The actions took place in Russia, Belarus, Germany, Austria, Finland, Czech, Turkey and we hope in many more other places! Graffiti, letters writing events, presentations, screenings, banner drops,…
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Report of the HAMR event on the soli week 2017
From 23rd to 30th August, 2017, the international solidarity week for anarchist prisoners was held for the fifth time. Helsinki Anarchist Black Cross (Helsingin Anarkistinen musta risti, HAMR) organised as a part of the week an event with a speaker, bingo and food on Sunday 27th. The speaker was Oleg Volin from Moscow and he…
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Three actions of solidarity in Moscow, Russia
Moscow anarchists hung a banner on the fence of the Italian embassy. With this we want to express our solidarity with the imprisoned comrades from Italy: Marina Porku, Mikolam Marino, Pierroleto Falanca, Giovanni Gezzi, Roberto Cropo, Salvatore Vespetino, Sandro Carovac, Nicola Almergone.
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Solidarity action in Saratov, Russia
At August 30, 2017 members of the Saratov regional public organization “Center for Socio-legala nd Environmental Initiatives” for the first time joined the International week of solidarity with anarchists prisoners. On this day, near the office of the Organization in the settlement Sonechny in Saratov, twenty information leaflets were pasted up.
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Solidarity event in Zlin, Czech
One more solidarity event took place in Czech republic, in town called Zlín. As few other similar events, we were talking about isolation in prison and ways how we can support prisoners, more specifically – writing letters. We raised some money for Anarchist Black Cross and wrote several postcards.
