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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
During periods of economic crises class contradictions also become more acute. The state, trying to keep power of big capital, turns to open terror. Under the hammer of the police state felt our comrades Alexander Kolchenko, Ilya Romanov and Dmitry Buchenkov, Belarusian antifascists. By fabricating cases, policemen want to punish anarchists for their activity. In …