“We are an image from the future.” — graffiti in greece, 2008 Rebellion has ruptured the placid suffering of yesterday. Those of us who have acknowledged the ongoing class war in this society, siding with the oppressed, have seen these moments before. Moments where the police are turned back, overran; …
Written by Ben Turk, published January 6, 2015, on Toward Freedom Last month Ferguson burned. Amidst the images of flames, teargas and blockages, there were as many people with cameras and cell phones as signs or molotovs. Everyone seemed to recognize the significance of these events, but there are many …
We Can’t Breathe without control of our destiny! We Can’t Breathe under neo-colonialism! We Can’t Breathe with capitalism’s hands around our throats! We Can’t Breathe under bourgeois democracy! We Can’t Breathe under genocidal violence! We Can’t Breathe under imperialism! The Can’t Breathe in overcrowded u.s. prisons! We Can’t Breathe under …
Comrades and Friends, As of 9am on Saturday, December 20, comrades of the Trayvon Martin Organizing Committee – NYC have surrendered to the custody of the NYPD, for their alleged involvement in an incident on the Brooklyn Bridge on the night of the Millions March. NYPD Detective William Aubry called the incident, …
Joel is an antifascist prisoner in Sweden. In July 2014, he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for attempted murder, violent disorder, and carrying an illegal weapon. The sentence followed a collective defense against a Nazi attack on an antifascist demonstration in Stockholm. The interview was …
As long as We beg, hat in hand, the enemy culture to indict one of their own (for a job well done) in the killing of one or ten of our nationals, We will continue to be disappointed, dismayed, mystified, and confused. Why would they bow to our pressure of spontaneous …
Melbourne Refugee and asylum seeker rights rally Saturday 27 July 2013, to protest both the Rudd Labor Government new proposal for assessment and resettlement of asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea, and the Liberal Party’s hard line stand to use the military to turn back the boats. Both Labor and …
This was the first ever migrant camp, opened in 1947. It closed in 1971 after having processed over 300,000 migrants. Some migrants had come back to visit while I was there, but I did not ask what they mean by processed. From wikipedia. via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/5bjqr7
The Refugee Action Collective organised a march and protest on Saturday 2 April 2011 against children in immigration detention outside the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation at Camp Road, Broadmeadows. Despite Labor’s October announcement that all children would be released from detention, there are still more than 1,000 children locked up …
by Farah Kobaissy via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/4BuFRm