Radical Resilience.

      A common feature among those activists who dedicate their life to trying to change the world, to attempt to create that better world for all, who stand against injustice, fight the economic system that is destroying the planet, who struggle for a system of mutual aid, sustainability and respect for all life, is the problem of "burnout". The problems seem to get bigger, the system's resistance gets more vicious, the struggle at times seems overwhelming, but the struggle can only be abandoned at our peril. The difficult dilemma, burnout and the struggle must continue.

 

     This article from Anarchists Worldwide, by means of a film trail, attempts to point to a way through this seemingly insurmountable dilemma. It would be good if the film can be brought to other cities, perhaps we could all gain something from the showing and discussion.

Radical Resilience:
      The premiere of Radical Resilience will be on Sunday the 1st March at the Alte VHS, Kasernenstraße, Bonn. Doors open at 15:30 and the film will begin at 16:00. It runs about 1 hour and afterwards there will be time for questions with the filmmakers and discussion. The film is multilingual and the subtitles will be in German. If necessary it would be no problem to do a whispering translation as a big part of the film is in English. There is no fixed price for entry as we’d like it to be accessible for all, but donations are very welcome to cover costs and hopefully help us continue our work.
     The screening will take place on the ground floor which is accessible by ramp. Unfortunately the toilet is not barrier free. There is a play room for children in the building. If you have any other needs, wishes or questions then please contact us.
      Through interviews, this film reflects on the effects of burnout within our movements, looks at reasons why it is such a common problem, and offers some tools and strategies how we can be more sustainable and inclusive in our activism.
      If you are interested in organising a screening in your area, get in contact. To stay informed about upcoming screenings, join our mailing list, or follow us on Mastodon or Twitter. Share the trailer widely if you like it! Please choose subtitles in settings on the player as the trailer is in several languages.

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111 Days, Still Going.

       Not a lot reported in our mainstream media of what is happening in Chile. This is to be expected, since the media is the propaganda mouthpiece of the state and the capitalist system. Whenever People rise up against the authority and corruption of the state and the capitalist system, the media looks the other way, it seeks out some popcorn and bubblegum incidents to try to hold your attention, for fear that you might side with the insurrection happening elsewhere.

    It must be getting harder for them to do so as in more and more places across the globe, people are taking to the streets in anger against this exploitative and destructive system that controls our lives.

    For a few years the UK media had Brexit to plaster all over the outlets, now they have coronavirus, punctuated with some celebrity crap and a few reports of sexual exploits of stars and politicians.

    However, the protests, the insurrection and the anger on the streets continues. More than a year in France and long spells of uprisings spreading across the planet. In Chile despite the silence from the Western media, the anger has not subsided. After 111 days, the people are still on the streets taking on the brutal attacks from the state, day in day out. The state's response is ever more vicious attacks, ever greater surveillance, ever more draconian laws, but still the people's anger only grows.

     The following from Enough is Enough:

111 days of social revolt.

THE INSISTENT INSURGENT SPARKS!
        During the weekend there were clashes between soccer fans and the police, like outside the National Stadium and in San Carlos de Apoquindo. In Quillota there were riots and smoking barricades. Bands, chants against the government, invasions on the playing field and fights with the guards and even with fans of the same clubs that disapproved of the protests.
         On Dignity Square on Saturday and Sunday masked people intercepted a bus throwing stones, on Sunday it went further and a bus was partially set on fire. All this in spite only a few people who took part in the protests during those days. There are also discussions between demonstrators to ask for money from the drivers passing through the zero zone.
        In the commune of Pudahuel the rage does not end and a public transport bus burned down, just like in La Pincoya.
       In Melipilla, on Saturday, an attempt at collective expropriation of a supermarket ends with four wounded people, one with a bullet in the groin and three with rifle impacts in their face, neck and arms.
       On Sunday, hundreds of cyclists arrived to protest outside the house of the judge who solved the case of the murder of “Neco”. The murderer was allowed to leave with a weekly signature.
      The government announces the installation of hundreds of facial-recognition cameras on the streets. In the summer festivals the fascist animator and boss behind the scenes “Kike” Morandé joins in, people threw stones against a humorist for being misogynistic and macho, forcing him to withdraw.
       On Monday, an ambush at Dignity Square. More than thirty masked people were arrested.
      On Monday and Tuesday, students protest against the PSU (University Selection Test) at its third day, disturbances and minor skirmishes are recorded off-site. They also protest inside several subway stations and panic takes hold of those in charge, who order them to close.
      Police train military, sailors and aviation agents in anti-riot tactics, the armed forces spend millions on implementation of social control.
      In Congress the constitutional accusation against Intendant Guevara (1) is rejected, some opposition senators are absent or abstaining. For lack of a quorum, the intendant (accused of domestic violence) goes unpunished for the thousands of injuries that resulted from the application of his “copamiento” tactic at Dignity Square.
      Serious incidents in the University of Chile’s Pre-Libertadores match, clashes between “barras bravas [soccer fans] and guards outside the National Stadium, in the gallery a cabin burns down while the game continues.
       Fans of the Südkurve (2) Zürich waving tissues in solidarity and memory of ‘Neco’ and Ariel. Masked people attack a Presbyterian church in Antofagasta.
       In another case of an attack by state mercenaries, a young hospitalized man denounces that at least six uniformed men struck him and left him with a punctured lung, this occurred in Puente Alto.
       On Wednesday night an individual gets out of his car and threatens members of “La primera línea” (3) with a gun. This happens right in front of the place where they murdered “Lambi”, when the individual left he fireds a shot. At dawn a group of unknown people set fire to three buses of the locomoção (4) collective in Recoleta.
        A 73-year-old threatens protestors with a gun from a bus , and is insulted by the driver and passengers.
        On Thursday dozens of floral arrangements give life and colour to Dignity Square. They are in honor of all those who were killed during the Revolt.
      One of the policemen of the group that murdered Alex Nuñez, admits that his colleagues have arranged to testify against him in the case. Alex was killed by cops in Maipu on October 20, 2019.

As you read this report, the president of Chile goes on vacation…

NOTHING IS OVER, EVERYTHING KEEPS GOING.

      Giannis Michailidis and Konstantina Athanasopoulou were arrested in Greece… This one goes for you too.

Read the full article HERE: 

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Fabricated Cities Of Illusion.

 

       Most cities in the western world are being shaped the same way, designed to be tourist centres, places cleansed of locals, who are excluded and/or marigalised, keeping the city safe for the foreign big money spenders. Cities unsullied by the ordinary working people and the poor, the only poor the tourists are allowed to see are in uniforms serving coffees, meals, drinks and seeing to the needs of money spending tourists in hotels. This unnatural city design will be preserved by heavy handed policing, as nothing must interrupt the flow of money to the financial and corporate powers.

     So the following article, though from Berlin, may sound rather familiar, and shows the extent to which the powers that be will go to preserve their illusion of a happy-happy-exciting but safe city for the big spenders.

The following from Act For Freedom Now:

        On Friday 24.01 around 4.00 a.m, the cops of the police station 51 (Wedekindwache), raided the flat of Maria P. on Grünberger Straße 46, after her flatmate’s phone call, and shot her dead. Police reports and its careful reproduction through mass media profile Maria as a mentally ill person attacking the cops with a knife. At the same time the state, police and the mass media are targeting persons with mental health issues, suggesting that this ‘diagnosis’ is enough for their potential execution.

      The day after the murder, people gathered in solidarity and started a spontaneous demo in Maria’s neighbourhood. This demo was attacked by the cops, completing in this way the image of zero tolerance while actively defending the provocative statements of the police union (GdP) and the public prosecutor’s office which said that they are currently assuming that their colleagues have behaved correctly.

       Berlin is a city based on the alternative tourism industry and a facade of diversity tolerance, promoting a progressive city image, which offers as products, ideas such as antiracism, antisexism and veganism/vegetarianism without hesitating to rely on the ‘friendly’ police forces (da für dich) to ensure citizen’s peace and security when needed.

      Repression and the “product” Berlin is selling go hand in hand, as in order to make notions like “alternativism” and “diversity” more marketable,the dominant system must de-politicize and deprive them from their “dangerous” elements. Berlin is actually a European metropolis where police violence is daily omnipresent. From the brutal assassinations, arrests, beatings, surveillance cameras and helicopters to the provoking and terrorizing “robocops” during demos. All these things are building up a police controlled city mosaic that leaves no space for any kind of resistance.

       This goes hand in hand with the legislation creating a profile of a sheriff-cop providing them with full freedom and initiative to act without any legal consequences. At the same time, everyone that reacts to arrests, imprisonments and fines is extremely repressed. The state and the police as the genuine dominion are patrolling the city by repressing whatever they define as dangerous against them in the pretext of security and order. This situation is also supported by the left parties, whose only suggestion against police arbitrariness is the use of tasers instead of guns, this way indicating their consent for state repression. The mass media are demonizing once again the victim and treating the murderers as heroes in order to steer social reactions.

       Even if we have no illusions about the state, the cops , reporters and politicians, the society’s indifference to this cold-blooded murder only reveals the real face of this city, completing the puzzle of conservatism, of personal interest and social cannibalism.

It’s crucial now more than ever to resist and react against police terrorism. The rallying of any radical part of society is essential, which through unmediated and anti-hierarchical struggles – from open assemblies to all types of interventions in the city- won’t let those incidents unanswered.

      For a society of equality and freedom, without dominants and oppressed, exploiters and exploited, we fight collectively for the destruction of state and capitalism.

The state arms, the cops murder

Damit wir uns nicht an den Tod gewöhnen

Open call to everyone for the demo against Bullenkongress
31.01 | 20:00 Uhr | Wismarplatz | Berlin-Friedrichshain |

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SoR Stall For You.

        As usual, folks at Spirit of Revolt have been busy, doing all the things necessary to keep the Archive growing and accessible to the public. We have also been busy at trying to reach out to all you friendly folks. Two events that we will be having a stall at in our attempt bring your history to you, and you to your history.

       First up will be our stall at the Workers Theatre Group,  www.workerstheatre.co.uk February 15th. Ceilidh, 8:00pm, Pollokshaws Burgh Hall doors open about 7:30pm. where we will have info about Spirit of Revolt Archive, leaflets, books, CDs, T-shirts, badges, etc, plus info on how you can get involved, along with friendly chat. Why not come along and have a chat with us before you dance your heart out.

        The next event that we will take part in is The Dundee Anarchist Bookfair, March 14th. 2020. dundeeanarchistbookfair.org. Again we will have a stall with lots of interesting “stuff” plus the usual friendly members on hand to give info and friendly chat.

       Both events are well worth supporting, come along, have fun, meet old friends, make new friends, gather info, network.

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Punk Fund Raiser.

 

        In London to day and at a loose end, well why not go for a punk, rap, grind music night? Not my thing but to each their own.

 South london,uk: Athenian S.W.A.G. TAKEOVER 8TH OF FEBRUARY 2020

 

        Suggested donation £5, no one turned away for lack of funds !
Cheap bar as well !
     All profits to be donated to A Place of Our Own: the North London punk venue project and SES – Suffolk And Essex Hunt Sabs

ONLY POSERS ALLOWED

Teknokrater (Athens, Greece)
https://teknokrater.bandcamp.com/
Athen’s finest noisegrind quartet ready to burst your eardrums

Vile Species (Athens, Greece)
Pioneers of the underground athenian swag scene. Best enjoyed while throwing empty cans at them

Frikeerne (Athens, Greece)
Legendary punk band from greece and eurovision finalists

Migraines (WCBH)
https://themigraines.bandcamp.com/
101% DIY hardcore skaterboys. Phlegm connoisseurs and avid golfers.

MethxCamp (Bristol)
https://methxcamp.bandcamp.com
Its fast, its loud, its RAGGO. crème de la crème of uk powerviolence (West Country Brotherhood über alles)

Binge Drinker (London)
https://bingedrinker.bandcamp.com
Fast grindy punk metal crust n roll pissartists

Sunderer (South England)
https://sundererband.bandcamp.com
Sick blackened doom/crust 2-piece band from the South of England.

Skullfucked (London)
https://skullfuckedbgka.bandcamp.com/track/crowbong
Skater greebos making death metal influenced by forest fires, heavy narcotics and Napalm Death

Doomsday Clock (London)
Local fastcore/powerviolence bois. Might sound like shit but at least its fast

Νυξ Kollektiv (Cyprus)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGroIz5WdoNqapviKEz-MOA
Chaotic experimental rap from cyprus. Dont miss em !!

AFTER PARTY TUNES BY

Milo Mang
https://soundcloud.com/milomang

s.q_r.l_
https://www.instagram.com/s.q_r.l_

FOR INFO CALL: 07534449497

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Mask Up.

 

      Most people now agree that we are facing unprecedented problems on this planet, and most can be traced back to human activity. Despite the obvious impending disaster, the controllers of the economic system responsible for this situation, still persist in their false and flawed mantra, "It's the only game in town".

     They will adjust and rearrange things as long as it doesn't alter their power, wealth and privileges, no matter the outcome for the rest of us. We are secondary, expendable, to their blind vision for our planet, blind to the fact that they die with us if this system continues.

     While states attempt to stop people wearing masks at protests, they continue to create situations where we will have to wear masks to walk our streets, as pollution poisons the air we breathe. We tolerate this crazy path at our peril, and to the detriment of our children's future.

     It is no longer  a matter of whither we should take what action we can to bring down this suicide mission of the corporate/financial out of control juggernaut, it is an obligation, so that we can give our grandchildren a future. It is also obvious that dialogue and running to a ballot box hasn't done any good  over numerous years. The beast has to be faced head on and destroyed root and branch by the mass of people taking direct action, the time for talking has long since past. Take your righteous anger onto the streets, create the change you wish to see, we change or we die. 

This from Anarchist News:

 One Way or Another, One Day We’ll All Wear Masks

       Wherever we are situated in this society, our future boils down to two options: accepting our fate and trying to reduce the harm to our bodies and the environment on a piecemeal basis—or actively resisting in order to interrupt the disaster and implement our own solutions. If there is anything that scientists, sociologists, military strategists, and day laborers all agree on, it is that we are headed for global collapse.
      Those who hold power seek to take advantage of hurricanes, forest fires, and pandemics to impose more and more invasive forms of control on us. Their responses to crises always prioritize protecting their own privileges and profits while they treat the rest of us as expendable. We can’t trust our survival to their expertise.
      If we resign ourselves to the future implied by catastrophic climate change, widespread pollution, and ecological collapse, sooner or later, the disaster will come for us. In some parts of the world, people are already forced to wear masks when they leave the house just to protect themselves from poisoned air, toxic waste, or infectious conditions.
      If we do not accept the destruction of our lives, our land, our food, and everything that connects us with each other and the biosphere as a whole, we have to fight to regain control over the conditions of our lives and the decisions that determine our survival. In a world of police, prisons, surveillance cameras, we will have to wear masks that conceal who we are so we can fight for what we really want.

Read the full article and poster HERE:

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Freedom Of Thought!!

       Freedom of thought is a fundamental human right unimpeded by coercion or force of any kind. Or it should be, but this freedom is always under attack, words are a means of expressing that right of freedom of thought, but words are attacked and attempts made to remove certain words, political correctness, is one such attack, we lose words at our peril, words lost are a diminishing of the ability to express that "freedom of thought". Be very wary of those who tell you certain words are bad and should not be used.

Wikipedia:

       The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which states that thought is inherently embedded in language, would support the claim that an effort to limit the use of words of language is actually a form of restricting freedom of thought.[citation needed] This was explored in George Orwell's novel 1984, with the idea of Newspeak, a stripped-down form of the English language alleged to lack the capacity for metaphor and limiting expression of original ideas.

      From Lucas Swaine Freedom of Thought as a Basic Liberty

      Freedom of thought has been lauded in political theory and celebrated in human rights discourse. But what kind of freedom is it? I propose that freedom of thought deserves status as a basic liberty, given the significance of thought to human life, the fundamental importance of freedom of thought in establishing and sustaining crucial rights and freedoms, and the value of being able to develop and experience one’s thoughts without undue influence from others. 

The usual words of calm wisdom from Not Buying Anything:

        Cars can be freedom machines in a way, I admit, and I have had my share of incredible moments blasting across the face of the Earth in a variety of internal combustion conveyances. But those days have been over for Linda and I since we began voluntarily limiting how much we used our vehicle. We made this decision as the rest of the world was speeding around a blind corner and on into the 2000s.
        Since then we been driving less and less and less. Overall, we have found it has not had a noticeable negative effect on our quality of life. That is because cars are sold as freedom machines, but they can only provide freedom of movement. What is the use of having an unlimited freedom to move, if we don't also have the unlimited freedom to think?
       Socrates knew that we cannot find ourselves without first thinking for ourselves. Without this freedom, we are lost.

So, do we have the freedom to think in our societies?

        Freedom of thought is the freedom to hold or consider a fact, viewpoint, or thought, independent of coercion or force to think differently.

That does not describe the world I know.

      Our freedom of expression has always been limited through censorship, arrests, book burning, and pervasive propaganda. This has destroyed any semblance of freedom of thought that we may feel we still have left.
      Educator John Dewey, himself a deep thinker, thought a lot about freedom of movement vs freedom to think, and this is what he said,

     "The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worthwhile.
       The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity."

         While we have driven around our cultural obsession with cars and freedom of movement, we have found our grey matter has been thrown in the slammer. We didn't notice because we have been stuck in traffic.
In recent years I have been willing to give up a large part of my freedom of movement. However, I will not compromise my freedom to think for myself, something on which all other freedoms are based.
        You can't be yourself if you can't think for yourself. And if you can't be yourself, you can't be free.

Freedom of thought wins.

         The time I used to spend driving and being mobile, I now spend blasting around the infinite space between my ears. I would like this to continue, unimpeded by outside forces.

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The Next Step.

         Sometimes somebody makes a calculated prediction and it seems to come true many years later. I'm no disciple that worships at the feet of Lenin, but I think, in this case, his prediction of capitalist development was spot on.

 

        Of course accepting his development of capitalism is just one step, the next step is how to stop that continuing power struggle between these financial and corporate competing imperial powers that continue to be responsible for countless millions of lives lost unnecessarily, devastation and misery for millions more and vast swaths of poverty and deprivation, not to mention the destruction of the planet's ecosystem. They won't be beaten by smart phones, but by ordinary people on the streets of every country in the world, all with the one aim, to take back control of our own lives by mutual aid, co-operation, sustainability, respect for all humanity, the planet and all its varied life forms.

The following is an extract from an article by By Pål Steigan

The imperialist powers divide the world according to the power relations between them

      Lenin gave the best and most durable explanation for this, in his essay «Imperialism – the highest stage of capitalism«. There, he explained five basic features of the era of imperialism:

1. The concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life;
2. The merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital”, of a financial oligarchy;
3. The export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;
4. The formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves; and
5. The territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed.
   

       But Lenin also pointed out that capitalist countries are developing unevenly, not least because of the uneven development of productive forces in the various capitalist countries. After a while, there arises a discrepancy between how the world is divided and the relative strength of the imperialist powers. This disparity will eventually force through a redistribution, a new division of the world based on the new relationship of strength. And, as Lenin states:

“The question is: what means other than war could there be under capitalism to overcome the disparity between the development of productive forces and the accumulation of capital on the one side, and the division of colonies and spheres of influence for finance capital on the other?“

       The two world wars were wars that arose because of unevenness in the power relationships between the imperialist powers. The British Empire was past its heyday and British capitalism lagged behind in the competition. The United States and Germany were the great powers that had the largest industrial and technological growth, and eventually this misalignment exploded. Not once, but twice.-------

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True Caspitalism.

        Across the world in developing countries we hear of brutal and draconian actions against workers who organise and act in solidarity to try to better their conditions. However here in civilised Europe we do it differently, (oops I forgot, according to our lords and masters, we are no longer Europeans) We do have dialogue and in most cases if the workers are organised enough, we get a compromise, occasionally a victory. In Germany, that so called democratic country, in one particular dispute with workers who are being treated unfairly, the gloves are off. Instead of trying to reach a compromise the bosses have decided to sack a group of workers and threatened 800 more with lay-off, if the struggle continues. Obviously the bosses feel strong enough to take on the union and confident enough to know that they will get the backing of the state if this struggle escalates. At times like this it is incumbent on all workers to stand up and show their support and solidarity with the workers at the receiving end of this brutal profit before people policy, of this capitalism with the gloves off. We surely can also stand up and take our gloves off in defence of our living conditions. When bargaining ends, real struggle begins.

This from Labour Start:

      Workers at Ameos in Germany, a private for-profit hospital corporation, are demanding fair wages, secured by a collective bargaining agreement. In the federal country of Sachsen-Anhalt in the east of Germany, for example nurses receive up to 500 EUR less than comparable employees in other hospitals. But Ameos refuses to sign a collective bargaining agreement with the union, ver.di. After massive short-term strike action in November Ameos has fired 14 workers without previous notice and has threatened 800 lay-offs should industrial action continue. The workers have now started an open-ended strike. They are fighting for better wages. Adequate payment will also help to find more people for the health professions. Adequate health care services for the region must be the priority, not ever higher profits. The workers need your support in their struggle. Please join us in sending protest emails to the regional CEO Frank-Ulrich Wiener and the Chairman of the Ameos board, Dr. Axel Paeger.

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Born Again!!

        Do you believe in the resurrection? Well we do, The Keelie died around the 1990's and was sorely missed, you can pay your respects to the Glasgow Keelie at Spirit of Revolt Archive. However, the Glasgow Keelie has been reborn, sort of born again so as to speak, and can be found hanging around Glasgow pubs, cafes and other places. Watch out for the Glasgow Keelie when you are out and about, go up and say "hello" I'm sure you will find it a very interesting occasion. You might go away with some info you didn't know about. Let us know about your experience on meeting the Glasgow Keelie, we would be delighted to hear what you think of the born again Glasgow Keelie.

The Keelie that died:

The Keelie that has been born again.

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Justice Turns Its Back.

       Not a new video, but what has changed in the 11 years since it was first released? More Palestinians dead and maimed, more of their homes destroyed, more of their land stolen and their conditions vastly deteriorated, and still the vast majority of the states of this world turn a blind eye or worse, openly support the genocide being carried out by the Zionist regime that holds sway in Israel.

      Will history record how the people of Palestine disappeared in a bloody epoch, or will it record how finally the people of the world stood up and halted this racist genocide by a deluded fanatical Zionist regime. A regime that daily brings the Jewish people into disrepute the world over. Who will write the history, religious fanaticism or rational humanity?

Thanks Loam for the link.

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Rampant Genocide.

     Obviously the only supporters of the Trump/Netanyahu "deal of the Century"  for the people of Palestine, are rabid racists, apartheid supporters, fascists and Trump worshipers. However they will do their utmost to implement this racist land-grab with the hope of obliterating the land of Palestine off the map completely. No rational person with a grain of humanity can stand by and watch this happening. This deal will not be rescinded by debate in the corridors of power, too many in that labyrinth of power and corruption pay homage to their imperial master America. It can only be opposed on the streets in countries around the world. Sadly I don't see Glasgow's name in this list though I do know that there is wide opposition to this extension of American/Zionist imperialism. Let's widely publicise our actions and show the strength of solidarity.

This from Struggle La Lucha:

      Palestinian communities and supporters of Palestine inside occupied Palestine, in the refugee camps and everywhere around the world have mobilized a series of events, actions and demonstrations to express their outrage at the latest colonial insult proffered by U.S. imperialism, the Zionist state and complicit reactionary regimes, the Trump-Netanyahu “deal of the century.”

     A list of actions is below, organized by a wide range of community groups and solidarity movements. This list focuses mostly on events outside Palestine and the camps – there are countless mobilizations taking place there. We know this list is incomplete and growing! will add your action and demonstration to the list if you send us the time, date and location. Send us a message on Facebook or email us at samidoun@samidoun.net to add your mobilization to the growing international rising that makes clear that the people of the world stand with the Palestinian people and will never accept apartheid, land theft and colonization.

UPCOMING ACTIONS

Saturday, 1 February

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
2:00 pm, Aotea Square, New Zealand. More info:
https://samidoun.net/event/auckland-palestine-human-rights-rally/
NAPOLI, ITALY
11:00 am Metro Toledo, Napoli. More info: https://www.facebook.com/giovanipalestinesi.italia/posts/2829767097086466
MILAN, ITALY
4:00 pm, Piazza Duomo/Arengario, Milan. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/giovanipalestinesi.italia/posts/2829767097086466
PARIS, FRANCE
3:00 pm, Fontaine des Innocents, Paris. More info:
https://samidoun.net/event/paris-protest-trumps-declaration-of-war-on-palestinians/
BARCELONA, CATALONIA (SPAIN)
6:30 pm, Placa Sant Jaume, Barcelona. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/comunitat.palestina/posts/2957069284326653
KOBLENZ, GERMANY
12:00 pm, Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Koblenz. More info:
https://samidoun.net/event/koblenz-no-to-the-deal-of-the-century-demonstration/
HAMBURG, GERMANY
3:00 pm, Steindamm 55, Hamburg. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/PalastinensischeGemeinschaftInDeutschlandEv/posts/3309641825727274
BORAS, SWEDEN
12:00 pm, Stora Torget, Borås. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/484555255807680/
GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN
1:00 pm, Gustaf Adolfs torg, Gothenburg. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/170475410928798/
HELSINGBORG, SWEDEN
1:00 pm, Söder, Helsingborg. More info:
https://samidoun.net/event/helsingborg-protest-the-trump-deal/
RONNEBY, SWEDEN
1:00 pm, Ronneby torg, Ronneby. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/pal.in.se/photos/a.777417652281878/2914966685193620/
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
2:00 pm, US Embassy, Dag Hammarskjolds Vag 31, Stockholm. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2692925357660447/
ODENSE, DENMARK
3:00 pm, Banegardspladsen, Odense. More info:
https://samidoun.net/event/odense-no-to-the-deal-of-the-century/
BERGEN, NORWAY
3:00 pm, Den Bla Steinen, Torgalmenningen, Bergen. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/637045693730573/
ENNIS, IRELAND
1:00 pm, The Height, O’Connell Square, Ennis. More info:
https://www.ipsc.ie/event/ennis-emergency-vigil-reject-the-trump-netanyahu-steal-of-the-century-ipsc
DUBLIN, IRELAND
2:00 pm, General Post Office, O’Connell Street, Dublin. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/185899832814621/
LIMERICK, IRELAND
3:00 pm, Bottom of Thomas Street, Limerick. More info:
https://www.ipsc.ie/event/limerick-emergency-vigil-reject-the-trump-netanyahu-steal-of-the-century-ipsc
LONDON, UK
1:00 pm, US Embassy, 33 Nine Elms Lane, London, More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2883478418385390/
MANCHESTER, UK
1:00 pm, Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/281779089464036/
BIRMINGHAM, UK
3:00 pm, opposite Waterstones (by the Bullring), Birmingham. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/birminghampalestineaction/posts/2467249560203413
TORONTO, CANADA
1:00 pm, US Consulate Toronto, 360 University Ave, Toronto. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/120157812630391/
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
1:00 pm, Norman Bethune Square, Montreal. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2649259201840051/
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, US
1:00 pm, 11000 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/519680402004224/
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, US
1:00 pm, Copley Square, Boston. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/205983373778802/
DALLAS, TEXAS, US
2:00 pm, Dealey Plaza, Dallas. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1780900755375497/
HOUSTON, TEXAS, US
3:00 pm, Corner of Westheimer and Post Oak, Houston. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/173949043954721/
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, US
5:00 pm, Five Points Fountain, Columbia. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/UofSCSJP/photos/a.764959730266462/2645478312214585/

Sunday, 2 February

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
2:00 pm, Dam Square, Amsterdam. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/837728293341115/
BERLIN, GERMANY
3:00 pm, Brandenburger Tor, Berlin. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/806759639837552/
OSLO, NORWAY
2:00 pm, Stortinget, Oslo. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1405052866339368/
COLUMBUS, OHIO, US
12:00 pm, 15th Avenue and High Street, Columbus. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/200398221090879/
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, US
1:00 pm, Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2325279181096737/
VANCOUVER, CANADA
2:30 pm, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/172540570673079/

Monday, 3 February

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
2:00 pm, US Consulate General, Museumplein 19, Amsterdam. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/774905216326149/
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
3:00 pm, US Embassy, Boltzmanngasse 16, Vienna. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/566191377123146/photos/a.586026968472920/754733871602228/

Tuesday, 4 February

GIJON, ASTURIAS, SPAIN
7:00 pm, Plaza del Parchis, Gijon (Xixon). More info:
https://www.facebook.com/causaarabe.asturies/posts/2799750740083680

Friday, 7 February

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
2:30 pm, Rond-point Schuman, Brussels. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10158109192094456&set=a.10151621688824456&type=3
HELSINKI, FINLAND
4:00 pm, Helsingin Tuomiokirkko, Helsinki. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/186304922443411/

Sunday, 9 February

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, US
3:00 pm, Oakland (Pittsburgh). More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/487529305243500/

List of COMPLETED ACTIONS

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Our Streets.

      While the propaganda machine of the Western capitalist system tries to portray a picture of a system working just fine, with everybody diligently enjoying the possibility of getting richer or perhaps becoming a celebrity, beneath this smoke and mirrors and facade of illusions, the people are on the streets in vast numbers trying to break the hold this system has over our lives.

      From Chile to France, from Ecuador to Lebanon, from Iraq to Sudan, the system is under attack by the ordinary people, calling, enough is enough. This is the time the various states unleash their guard dogs, those vicious psychopaths in police and military style uniforms, to beat, terrorise and intimidate the population, to get them back in line and subserviently accept their exploitation. However, it is getting harder and harder as the people gain in solidarity and lose their fear of the system's various control features.

      This from Catalonia, just another area where people are struggling for real change.

         The film is showing in London on the 6th. February, and Edinburgh on the 26th. February. Let's try to bring this film to Glasgow.

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Time To Be Me.

        "Not Buying Anything" is a site I visit often, and the result is always the same, I come away feeling I have learnt a little bit more of what the world could be if we all open our eyes, but I also leave feeling more eager to pick up the cudgel and do what I can to help destroy this paralysing, corrupt, unjust exploitative economic system that is responsible for so much destruction, death and misery, that will, if not brought down, eventually lead to the demise of humanity by the destruction of the Earth's fragile ecosystem.

This latest from Not Buying Anything:

 

       Like Jean Weir, "I think I experienced society like an iron vice from the day I was born." That is the main reason I find living simply so attractive - it loosens the grip of that iron vice.
      Since I was young I felt the control and exploitation that I was swimming in constantly. I thought it might drown me.
      Because I was born a sensitive, I keenly felt the stings of an obviously unjust and hypocritical system. It was everywhere - in the "father knows best" family structure, at school, the mall, in the playground and on the streets.
     I wondered, and still do, why so few could see it. Can fish perceive the water they swim in? Maybe that is the problem.
     My desire has always been to be beyond sneaky methods of control used by parents, teachers, bosses, priests and society. That is why I developed a powerful connection to nature and wild places, and honoured my desire to be far, far away from the centres of civilizational control as often as I could.
     I wanted to be away from the set of laws that seek to control everyone except the rich and powerful, who are free to do as they please.
   I wanted to leave consumerism, its garish billboards and screaming advertisements, in the dust behind me. These are the rankest forms of control of all, being subtle and based on the best neuropsychology money can buy (over 1 trillion dollars a year now).
     A saner world would see them for the mind control that they are, and resist them at every turn.
    The consumer lifestyle lulls us into creating our own gilded cages, then willingly walking into them. The authorities don't even have to monitor us after our initial training, because when we leave our cells to work for our keepers, we go right back to them at night.
    The average person prefers the cage to the perceive dangers and discomforts of more natural surroundings. Things, they say, are not convenient in nature. Therefore, it is bad, and must be controlled, destroyed and plundered.
    This shows the level of control has been complete and total. When you can successfully tear people from the land you create displaced zombies, ripe for exploitation and prone to suggestion.
     So, at an early age I decided I would not work for this sick system if that was ever possible. I had no wish to aid them in their exploitations and predations. I would rather be poor and free than complicit.
     I would go on to disassociate myself from the consumer lifestyle as much, and as soon, as I could. A life of buying less would allow me to work less. Working less would allow me to live more freely.
      Time, I thought, is the most valuable resource, and I didn't want to spend all mine working for the man. Or woman.
      Living simply is not so much about saving the world for me, although that would be a nice fringe benefit. It is about getting out of that iron vice of society.
      It is about building a real and lasting freedom for myself, and for everyone else.

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