ALTER-EE Alternative Network for Eastern EuropeThe newsgroup ALTER-EE has been created to help to coordinate anarchist activities in the region of Eastern Europe (such as solidary region wide ABC support for prisoners), and to make communication between groups of different countries easier, and to encourage the free movement of people and ideas from one community to another. We are mostly interested in establishing contact with anarchist activists from the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bielorussia, Bulgaria, Bosnia,...Support anarchist anti-fascist imprisoned in Krasnodar, Russia!- April 22, 2007 In may of 2004, Vahtang Devitlidze, anarchist and member of Federation of Revolutionary Anarchists, was hanging in centre of Krasnodar with two friends. They ran to a group of local Nazis, and soon a fight broke out. There was no choice - in order to defend himself, Vahtang had to pull a knife. As a result, he wounded one of the attackers to leg, while he was also hospitalized with less serious wounds himself. Already when a fight was over, police showed up and arrested people.http://www.alter.most.org.pl/fa/php/showart.php?artid=430 Russia: Anarchist campaign against Sochi 2014 Olympic Games candidature- April 22, 2007 Autonomous Action and other anarchists are organizing together with Russian eco-activists against Sochi candidature for 2014 Olympic Games. Currently campaign is centered on issues of ecology and socio-economic rights of the local people, but we are also developing more fundamental critique of commercial sport. There has already been one action in Moscow - 19th of January few dozen people picketed Russian Olympic Committee, and organized a guerilla theatre, where Misha the Olympic bear...http://www.alter.most.org.pl/fa/php/showart.php?artid=432 Estonian trip report and George W. Bush visiting Estonia- April 22, 2007 I was in Tallinn and Narva 29.-30. September checking the scene and it looked really good! 29th of September there was a movie screening of "Surplus" and "Colours of Resistance" (latter about year 2000 protests in Prague) with Estonian subtitres, and 80 people (!) came to the screening.. there is both Estonian and Russian speaking anarchist scene in Tallinn, in movie screening both of these were around but in general there is a serious language problem as people do not...http://www.alter.most.org.pl/fa/php/showart.php?artid=429 Poland: Actions against the Destructions of Wetlands- April 22, 2007 Anarchists, environmentalists, some NGOs and just plain citizens have been involved lately in stepping up the protest against the destruction of the Rospuda Valley Wetlands in Poland.http://www.alter.most.org.pl/fa/php/showart.php?artid=433 Apparent bomb attack against Food Not Bombs in St.Petersburg, Russia- April 22, 2007 Yesterday 4th of February a small bomb, supplied with a timing device, exploded in 4:20 PM in Vladimirskaya square of St. Petersburg, where Food Not Bombs is organised every sunday by different rotating groups.http://www.alter.most.org.pl/fa/php/showart.php?artid=431 Poland: Anti-fascist action in Krakow- April 22, 2007 On April 14, fascists from the group ONR decided to hold a march in Krakow. It was the 73rd anniversary of its founding, but also it was the time when Jewish and Israeli youth come to Krakow each year for the March of the Living, a kind of tribute to Holocaust victims. So really bad taste - and of course the march was accompanied by different antisemitic slogans, etc. etc.http://www.alter.most.org.pl/fa/php/showart.php?artid=434 Poland: POST OFFICE WORKERS SCREWED BY BOSSES AND UNIONS- April 22, 2007 On Sunday, December 17, 2007, anarchists held a picket in front of the main post office in Warsaw in order to protest the deal most trade unions made with the bosses and to show solidarity to those who had still not signed the deal and who were deciding that day whether or not to renew strike action.http://www.alter.most.org.pl/fa/php/showart.php?artid=428 Poland: Warsaw - death of a squat- April 22, 2007 Thursday evening activists from the Warsaw squat Elba met to discuss the news that their squat might be evicted. Yesterday, Frdiay, April 13, the found out that the concert and meeting space would be destroyed on Monday and that the living place shortly after and that they would have to move. So far there does not seem to be any talk of squat defence.http://www.alter.most.org.pl/fa/php/showart.php?artid=435 Campaign against Permatemps and Hewlett Packard- April 22, 2007 One of the biggest impediments to organizing is the permatemp phenomenon. In Poland, the amount of people who are forced to either set up their own company to be hired or who work through agencies or intermediary firms is extraodinarily high. Private employees feel entitled to do so because the leading pundits of economic opinion have built a consensus that the main cause of unemployment in Poland is the high cost of unemployment, meaning the cost of social benefits.http://www.alter.most.org.pl/fa/php/showart.php?artid=436 Russia: A bad turn in struggle of Yasnogorsk workers- April 22, 2007 15th of December 10 AM welder V.S. Chukanov, who has been participating to hungerstrike of Yasnogorsk car factory workers was hospitalized in a serious condition. Two other hungerstrikers are also getting worse, but this far they have refused to leave site of the strike. Hungerstrike has been going on with a varying levels of intensity since 1st of November, so many participators are in a weak condition.http://www.alter.most.org.pl/fa/php/showart.php?artid=427 |