Direct Action

Casa Encantada – A Portrait of the Fight for Housing in Belo Horizonte Going Through the Pandemic

Casa Encantada – A Portrait of the Fight for Housing in Belo Horizonte Going Through the Pandemic

The following is a interview about a book project documenting 20 squats in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil as well as a connected book tour through Europe starting in April 2024. We also learn more about the different and widespread practices of squatting and direct action in Brazil as well as the effects of the Covid pandemic and the authoritarian shifts in the country and how selforganzied movements have dealt and still deal with it.

Bad News: Episode #74

Bad News: Episode #74

Welcome to the 74th episode of Bad News – Angry voices from around the world, a monthly radio show produced by the Anarchist and Antiauthoritarian Radio Network.

In this episode, we will hear contributions from:

  • Flora Radio, Valparaiso – An update about the “anti-takeover law” or “usurpation law”. That criminalizes territorial claims of the Mapuche, the massive land takeovers and self-construction of thousands who are homeless.
Bad News: Episode #73

Bad News: Episode #73

Welcome to the 73rd episode of Bad News – Angry voices from around the world, a monthly radio show produced by the Anarchist and Antiauthoritarian Radio Network.

In this episode, we will hear contributions from:

  • FrequenzA – with an update on an ongoing labor struggle of workers at the Gallo Negro Restaurant in Leipzig. The interview got rerecorded for security purposes. For more info’s you can check a supporter webpage called: kikiriki.blackblogs.org
  • A-Radio Berlin – with an translated interview with solidarity group for the Budapest 2, anti-facist activisits under state repression from the Hungarian state. For further infos check:

Enjoy!

Length: 23 minutes and 17 seconds

Bad News: Episode #72

Bad News: Episode #72

Welcome to the 72nd episode of Bad News – Angry voices from around the world, a monthly radio show produced by the Anarchist and Antiauthoritarian Radio Network.

In this episode, we will hear contributions from:

  • The Final Straw Radio from the so-called  USA who is sharing a portion of a transcribed and re-recorded interview with three people involved or supporting the defendants in the December 8th Case in which 7 anarchists, including a former YPG fighter who goes by Libre Flot, accused of preparing a paramilitary uprising against the French state. To hear the rest of the interview, find our October 10th episode at TheFinalStrawRadoi.NoBlogs.Org, where you can also read the transcript or print off a zine of the interview. You can keep up on the case, share your solidarity actions and make donations at https://SolidarityToDecember8.Wordpress.Com
  • FrequenzA, a podcast and radioshow project from Leipzig, which prepared an interview about the Karl Helga Wagenplatz in Leipzig, which is under the threat of ever-present forces of gentrification
  • Free Social Radio 1431 AM from Thessaloniki, who shared a collection of news from so-called Greece.

This edition of Bad News was put together by Črna Luknja, anarchist radio show on Radio Student from Ljubljana.

Enjoy and keep on raging!

Length: 28 minutes 38 seconds

Bad News: Episode #71

Bad News: Episode #71

Dear Listeners,

Welcome to the 71st Episode of Bad News! This Months Host of Bad News is the Anarchist Radio Berlin. We welcome you to the show and hope y’all could cope with the shit that’s going on all around the globe!

From some of those who raise their Angry Voice we ll present you the following :

  • Frequenz A from Leipzig did a transcripted Interview with some of the organizers of an upcoming Queer feminist Congress thats gonna be held in the end of September in Leipzig. The Stronger Together Congress will take place under the motto “feminist queer militant”. Various feminist and queer struggles should be made visible and interfaces with other autonomous, anarchist and militant struggles should be sought.

https://femkongress23.noblogs.org/

  • The Final Straw Radio conducted an interview with a radical journalist in Atlanta, Georgia about continued and increasing legal repression by the city of Atlanta and state of Georgia, including against lawyers and legal support fundraising infrastructure. These recent applications are against an anarchist inflected movement thats against police militarization, ecological destruction and government corruption.

https://blockcopcity.org/

  • Anarchist Radio Berlin shares an interview about another evicted Squat in Ljubljana. Macjak was a small anarcha-queer squat in ljubjana, slovenia. Sadly it is history now. During the last days of august we spoke with two of the squatters about macjak and the future plans of squatting in ljubljana.
  • If you want to listen to another interview with the folks from macjak, have a look at page of Frequenz (A).

 

Before we’ll let you be, we want to give you some small hints:

  • November 10 – 13th 2023 call to Block Cop City through a mass action. It is useless to wait. With our future on the line and the whole world watching, we’ll take a stand to bend the course of history. If the city government does not halt construction in order to listen to the people, then we will simply have to do it ourselves – a People’s Stop Work Order. Check: blockcopcity.org
  • Come and join the tinta negra tattoo convention 13 -15 th of Oktober in Berlin, check: tintanegraconvention.noblogs.org for more Infos! We look forward to see you in October for three full days of tattoos, discussions, workshops and music for solidarity and anarchy!

 

Total length of the show: 47:20

Bad News: Episode #70

Bad News: Episode #70

Welcome to the 70th edition of B(A)D news: angry voices from around the world, a commonly produced monthly show of the anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio network, on this occasion composed by Kilavo Seme, anti-authoritarian agro-show on Radio Student from slovenia.

In this summer edition of the episode we will hear contributions of:

Anarchist Radio Berlin prepared interview on the upcoming No Border Camp in Groningen (NL). Between the 21st and the 27th of august the fifth edition of the dutch No Border Camp will take place in Groningen. We spoke with one of the organizers about the camp and the situation for people on the move in the dutch-occupied territories.

More info can be found at nobordercamps.eu or instagram.com/nobordernl/

Anarchist and Anti-authoritarian Radio Network recorded a radio-roundtable after its public event in St. Imier (swiss)- anarchist gathering that took place in end of July to commemorate 150 years from the first meeting of the Anti-authoritarian International.

Total length of the show: 67 minutes.

Bad News: Episode #69

Bad News: Episode #69

Welcome to 69th edition of BAD NEWS, Angry Voices from Around the World, which is a monthly news program produced by international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios.

This month we have contributions from three radio projects:

On the first moment of our show, Črna luknja from Ljubljana has been speaking with a comrade who is currently based in Chiapas and is engaged in different efforts in solidarity with the Zapatista struggle. The conversation starts with news about the recent paramilitary attack on za Zapatista community Moises and Gandhi and then continues with more background about the paramilitary forces involved and about the recent dynamics in Chiapas.

On our second block, A-Radio Berlin brings us news from the territory dominated by the state of Turkey:
On 28 of May, demonstrations of Erdogan fans, including Turkish fascists, celebrated his narrow victory at the presidential elections. We were not very happy that he would still be in power in Turkey. A-Radio Berlin talked with a comrade about the situation in the country, what follows after this election, what would have been the alternative and what this all means for suppressed communities and revolutionaries.

On our final block, The Final Straw Radio from so-called Asheville, North Carolina in the USA is sharing part of an interview with Matthew Scott, a journalist with ACPC in Atlanta to talk about recent developments with the struggle against Cop City, the building of a giant police training facility with a simulated cityscape for urban counter insurgency training for law enforcement from around the USA & around the world in a forest in Atlanta, Georgia. You can hear the whole interview in our June 18th, 2023 episode and you can learn more about the upcoming week of action to Stop Cop City at Stopcopcitysolidarity.org/mobilize or read Matthews work at ATLPressCollective.Com

This Bad News episode has been put together by Asamblea Anarquista Valparaiso in so called Chile, Southamerica.

List of songs and music artists (in order of appearance):

  • Que viva la resistencia (popular resistance song by struggling communities in Ecuador)
  • Asesinos (by Los Crudos)
  • Poetry and music on Solidarity with zapatistas, june 8th, Mexico city (by Ceiba, poet and musician)
  • Mapuflaite (by urban mapuche anarchist Singer from Santiago, chile)
  • La carta (Violeta Parra, from Chillán, Chile)
  • Los nadie (by Eduardo Galeano and the punk band from Venezuela “Los dólares)
  • Poeta (Atahualpa Yupanqui from Argentina)
  • No azara (by La muchacha, artist from Colombia)
Bad News: Episode #64

Bad News: Episode #64

Welcome to the 64th Edition of Bad News – Angry Voices from around the World!

We hope you’ll had a great start in to the new year and you feel ready for some segments of Bad News!

Therefore we want to make sure the smile on your face will freeze and you’ll form a fist in your Pocket.

Length: 50:00 minutes

Bad News: Episode #61

Bad News: Episode #61

Welcome to the 61st episode of Bad News, Angry Voices From Around The World, the monthly, English-language podcast from member projects of the International A-Radio Network. This month, we feature audios from comrades at:

48 minutes 38 seconds

Bad News: Episode #54

Bad News: Episode #54

Bad News #54: Angry Voices From Around The World

Welcome to #54, the March 2022 episode of BAD News: Angry Voices From Around The World. This is the monthly, English-language podcast by the A-Radio Network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios, podcasts and stations.

This month:

  1. A-Radio Berlin shares part of an interview with members of the Gorillas Workers Collective, which is organizing at the app-driven food delivery system around Berlin, Germany, about employment, data collection, precarity and labor organizing;
  2. Then, you’ll hear updates about anarchist prisoners, hunger strikes and releasees in Greece from Free Social Radio 1431 AM out of Thessaloniki;
  3. Following this, you’ll hear perspectives from a queer anarchist in Kyiv from 4 days after the Russian invasion began conducted by A-Radio Vienna in Austria;
  4. Finally, you’ll hear comrades at Črna Luknja in Ljublana, Slovenia, with an anarcho-syndicalist in Belgrade, Serbia about the role of NATO in the war in Ukraine, the need for revolution against all governments involved.

You can learn more about the network, the participants, past episodes of BAD News and how to get your project involved at A-Radio-Network.org

Length: 47:56

Bad News: Episode #52

Bad News: Episode #52

Bad News #52: Angry Voices From Around The World

Welcome to the 52nd edition of Bad News. This is our Angry Voices From Around The World for Janaury, 2022. A report from the international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios.

Check out all the shows. Look for the a-radio-network collection on archive.org or at our website, a-radio-network.org.

Contents:

1) Črna Luknja, radio show collective on Radio Študent prepared an interview with a participant in the anarchist publishing network CrimethInc. about the recent fire that hit its central distribution centre. More about how to offer support and mutual aid can be found here.

2) Anarchist Radio Berlin is presenting part of an interview with comrades from the Syrena collective in Warsaw about the antifeminist attack on their squat in December 2021. You’ll find the complete version of the interview here.

3) The Final Straw Radio (from southern Appalachia in the so-called US) shares a brief portion of a soon-to-be-released interview with Robin Goldman, a member of Tekosina Anarsist, or Anarchist Struggle, a collective of combat medics participating in the Rojava Revolution. In this part, Robin speaks about the current situation in Rojava in terms of Turkish aggression, the medical work that TA is doing and some about the structure of the group. Stay tuned to TheFinalStrawRadio.Noblogs.Org soon for the full interview, alongside a transcription and zine for easy printing and sharing. You can learn more about TA by visiting their website.

4) Elephant in the Room from Dresden presents a short overview of what happened recently in Kazakhstan and how the things are right now for the protesters.

5) Free Social Radio 1431AM, Thessaloniki, Greece – about eviction of squat in Biology faculty and other news from Greece.

Length: 51:27

Bad News: Episode #50

Bad News: Episode #50

Bad News #50: Angry Voices From Around The World

Welcome to the 50th edition of Bad News. This is our Angry Voices From Around The World for November, 2021. A report from the international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios.

Check out all the shows. Look for the a-radio-network collection on archive.org or at our website, a-radio-network.org.

Contents:

1) The Final Straw Radio (from southern Appalachia in the so-called US) shares a portion of their interview with members of Asheville Survival Program, an Abolitionist food distribution project operating for about a year and a half there. This conversation covers some of the nuts and bolts of the group and to hear an hour-long interview covering topics like burnout, propaganda, navigating around non-profits as a non-non-profit and mutual aid versus charity, you can check out the whole episode at their website.

2) Radio Show Elephant in the Room from Dresden reporting on last updates on the situation with repression against the opponents of dictatorship in Belarus, focusing on current situation with anarchists and the ways to support the radical movement.

3)  FrequenzA, podcast from Northern Germany made an interview about the situation at the polish/belarusian border.

4) Črna Luknja, radio show collective on Radio Študent from Ljubljana, Slovenia, prepared an interview about the situation of political refugees in the Western Balkan.

5) Anarchist Radio Berlin prepared a report presenting some of the recent cases of racist police violence to show their continuity and to also put out a call for a coming demonstration on the matter of the murder of Giorgos Zantiotis in a wuppertal police cell.

6)  FrequenzA (again:) prepared an interview with workers from Domino’s Pizza in struggle.

Length: 47:40

Bad News: Episode #44

Bad News: Episode #44

BAD News #44: Angry Voices From Around The World

Welcome to the 44th edition of Bad News. This is our Angry Voices From Around The World for April, 2021. A report from the international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios.

Check out all the shows. Look for the a-radio-network collection on archive.org or at our website, a-radio-network.org.

Contents:

1) Radio Dissident Island – Bulletin about what is going on in the UK

2) Črna Luknja – Interview about police violence with a comrade from Bristol

3) A-Radio-Berlin – Interview with the organization mare liberum about illegal push-backs in the Mediterranean
(you can find the whole interview in german lenguage here)

4) Asamblea Anarquista Valparaiso – Audio about the hungerstrike of anarchist and prisoners of the revolt in the area dominated by the chilean state

5) Frequenz(A) – Interview with a comrade from food not bombs myanmar about their work and the ongoing resistance

6) 1431 AM – About the continuing student movement and the the trial of the anarchist Vaggelis Stathopoulos

7) The Final Straw Radio – is sharing an interview with an incarcerated revolutionary with Jailhouse Lawyers Speak (you can find a transcript and the whole interview here)

8) Radio A (Karlsruhe) – Interview about a stopped dam project in the aragon region in spain

9) Radio Fragmata – Notes on repression and the struggles against the state and the police

Length: 1:48:04

Bad News: Episode #43

Bad News: Episode #43

BAD News #43: Angry Voices From Around The World

Welcome to the 43rd edition of Bad News. This is our Angry Voices From Around The World for March, 2021. A report from the international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios.

Check out all the shows. Look for the a-radio-network collection on archive.org or at our website, a-radio-network.org.

Contents:

1) A-Radio Berlin – An interview with the “anarchist food help of Bochum and Dortmund”
2) The Final Straw Radio – A portion of a conversation with an Ethiopia anarchist member of Horn Anarchists about the conflict in Tigray
3) Free Social Radio 1431AM – About the recently passed law for the educational system and the student movement and about the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas
4) Radiofragmata – Notes on the current situation in so-called Greece
5) Črna Luknja – A discussion with Peter Gelderloos after Pablo Hacel was imprisoned last month

Length: 51:56 min

Rider’s Wildcat Strike in Berlin: “This is just the beginning…”

Rider’s Wildcat Strike in Berlin: “This is just the beginning…”

As Anarchist Radio Berlin we are glad to share the following recordings that were made on the 10th of June 2021, during the wildcat strike of the Gorillas Workers Collective in response to the firing of a rider called Santiago, visiting the solidarity rally and picket line of one of the warehouses of Gorillas in Berlin, which happened on that day between 11am and 4pm.

For up to date information on the ongoing actions from the Gorillas Workers Collective, check out their Twitter account.