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Learning from Hambach
Ship’s log of an Italian activist at Ende Gelände
16 / 11 / 2017
The lignite mine that jeopardizes what remains of Hambach
forest, nearby the city of Bonn, is a sci-fi landscape, a boundless chasm that
broadens as far as the eye can see.Since the pit’s width, it’s hard to sense immediately
its depth. Then, with growing awe, the gaze falls into soil for hundreds of
meters, from terracing to terracing.Each step downward, each shade - ...
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From Rojava to the world, we fight and we break the silence
The statement of the internationalist battalion for Newroz
20 / 3 / 2017
From Rojava, to all open fronts, as the Antifascist Internationalist Battalion, in this moment fighting to protect the revolution of the confedereted people of northern Syria, we make a call for solidarity and unity of actions to all the revolutionary forces of all the world.We want them to be present here and now. Also here and now we affirm our commitment to the values of ...
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Trump, the event, the paradigm
21 / 11 / 2016
Franco Barchiesi is Associate Professor in Department of African & African American Studies, The Ohio State University.And then,
inevitable, unfailing, came the white liberal shock. In the aftermath of Donald
Trump’s election, the question that prevailed across the board of American
progressivism, from op-eds and talk shows to the astonished stares of neighbors
and ...
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Germany “Big Sunday” goes to the far right
From below the five percent, Alternative für Deutschland imposes itself as a major party after thirteenth of March regional election.
22 / 3 / 2016
Migration Policies played a central role in 13th elections, especially for collecting electoral consensus. The far right xenophobic wing built a campaign based on Merkel’s depiction as a “mother” always ready to welcome refugees, a “mother” who opens the borders. This behaviour, backed by the media, provoked major internal cultural-ethnic conflicts, exemplified in ...
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Jihadism – Those who blame refugees and Muslims hide the role of the alliance between the West and the petrol-monarchies
16 / 11 / 2015
As it is well known, terrorist attacks are a manna from heaven for fascists and other xenophobic forces who point to the massacres as a confirmation of their theses: migrants and Muslims are a threat that must be erased in one way or another. To counter such views, repeating sentences like “Not all Muslims are terrorists” or “Most migrants are good people” is just a ...
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The love affair between ISIS and the Turkish JDP (AKP) government. The entire story and evidence.
Everybody knows that the menace of ISIS grew in the Middle East with the help of the JDP (Justice Development Party) government in Turkey
16 / 11 / 2015
Everybody knows that the menace of ISIS grew in the Middle East with
the help of the JDP (Justice Development Party) government in Turkey. We
get to understand this reality better with each massacre at the hands
of the jihadists. We think this is a good time to republish the case of
documents, articles and evidence of such relationship we had compiled
earlier on between ...
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Beirut is sinking. The #Youstink protest movement at a political impasse.
The Municipality in Beirut stopped collecting garbage in this year mid-July. This episode is just the tip of the iceberg.
20 / 10 / 2015
The Municipal Administration in Beirut is closely linked to the March 14th parliamentary bloc whose influence extends to the entire country, and the capitol city comprises roughly half of the state population. From the middle of July 2015, direct action on the part of local citizens due to widespread health issues and pollution in their community has forced the central ...
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Hamburg: Demonstration Never mind the papers!
8,000 people demand right to the city for all
7 / 2 / 2015
On Januar 31st, 2015, up to 8000
people marched in solidarity with refugees and for equal rights for
everybody living in Hamburg. In preparation for the municipal
elections in February 2015, the alliance "Recht auf Stadt -
Never mind the papers" ("Right to the City – Never mind
the papers") was founded in November 2014. The goal of this
alliance is to address refugees' ...
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A call of Lampedusa in Hamburg
12 / 1 / 2015
Italian versionRight to the city - never mind the papersWe are people living in Hamburg. We are refugees struggling on a daily basis with the bad living situation in overcrowded and isolated camps, we are neighbors fighting against our displacement from overpriced neighborhoods, and we are activists recapturing our right to the city. We are organized refugees of the group ...
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France - They want to keep us precarious, we will stand inflexible!
European Labor Action Day for the Right to Unemployment Insurance.
21 / 10 / 2014
Versione italiana qui.Version française ici. European governments have found their answer to « the crisis »: War on the poor. In France, the socialist government has given avail to a convention by which 2 billion euros will be saved, (to the detriment of their unemployed) In Italy, Matteo Renzi, has created a Jobs Act in which precarious jobs become the norm. In ...
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