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What is Anarchomedia
Anarchomedia provides a common, interactive platform for anarchists in Ireland to post reports and to facilitate publication from anarchos who don't have the ability to publish themselves, e.g. without the necessary skills/time for websites, the copier access for newsletters, or the collective strength of organisation on the struggle towards an anarchist society and against the current forms of oppression; capitalism, gender isolation, racism and environmental degredation. Not to concentrate solely on the negative, Anarchomedia also carries reports on what is being done by anarchists and ordinary people to bring an end to this system of exploitation. Reports on Anarchomedia cover a wide range of issues and topics – from community organising to international mobilisations against capital, from anti-war activism to environmental activism.
The Workings of Anarchomedia
The content on Anarchomedia is created by a collective going under the guise of the Anarchomedia Collective. Unlike Indymedia, Anarchomedia does not operate an “open publishing” newswire but a moderated newswire where the content is posted by the collective of editors. While not wanting to be critical of the concept of “open publishing” we want a media where a certain level of reporting can always be expected by our readers. By having a closed newswire we can also effectively rule out the presence of trolls and spamming of the newswire. Readers can post comments on the articles posted to the site allowing for open debate on the newswire.
Other Services
Anarchomedia also offers other services to the anarchist & activist community in Ireland. As well as anarchist news, Anarchomedia features forums to move debate from the newswire. The forums exist to allow for debate between anarchists and anyone else who wishes to visit the site. Find these at:
http://anarchomedia.myikonboard.com/viewboard.php
The newswire also features notifications for upcoming events. Organisers of events should contact the collective and we will publicise the event on the site.
While all of the above are now ready for visitors and participation (only a few articles are online at the moment, be patient more will come) we are now working on putting together several sections that will have an abundance of information on anarchism and the anarchist scene in Ireland. Anarchomedia will supply its visitors with a directory of publications by anarchists/anti-authoritarian individuals or groups, a list of active anarchist/anti-authoritarian/grassroots groups, an introduction to anarchism and information on book shops and autonomous/radical zones around the island.
Getting Involved
Anarchomedia needs more editors as we don’t yet have a full house. If you think you have what it takes to be an anarchomedia editor and agree to the editorial policy then email us, tell us all about yourself, who you are, where you’re from, why you wanna get involved, organisations, groups or campaigns your involved in and whatever else you can think we might need/want to know.
It is important that as many anarchists as possible (either those living in Ireland, or interested in Irish anarchism) get involved with the day to day upkeep of the site. If you use the site, then try and lend a hand in maintaining it.
If you’re interested, here’s a little bit of info on the collective:
- The Anarchomedia collective work on a non-hierarchical basis.
- We reject all systems of domination and discrimination and come from varying anarchist tendencies (and no problems!).
- Anarchomedia has been given its webspace by comrades in the Anarchist Federation but remains independent from that and any other organisations
- We understand that by lobbying there will be no radical change. As a collective our attitude is assertive, and where necessary confrontational.
- Recruit, recruit, and recruit!!!
- In order to join the collective you must either meet with one of the members of the collective in your area or know one of us.
Al
http://www.anarchomedia.org
The latest edition of the Irish anarchist paper Workers Solidarity is online. This is our 20th year of publication and this issue sees a new look.
You can read the articles online at http://struggle.ws/wsm/ws/2004
You can download and print out the PDF version of the paper from http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/ws/79.html
Articles in this issue include
A busy year for the anarchist bogeyman
On virtually every occasion that anarchists were mentioned in the media in 2003, it was in the context of a scare story about threatened violence. The reality of anarchist activity was far, far different. While we were arrested, fined, injuncted and jailed in significant numbers for taking part in peaceful protests, we did not thrown a blow at a single person. Never once were we given a chance to give our side of the story.
Anarchism on the Move
Kieron Barry reviews 2003, a busy year for Irish Anarchists. A small but growing number of anarchists are building opposition to the status quo based on the politics of freedom and equality
Thats capitalism
Health, education, housing, employers and MEP's
Bertie's European Act
Over the next six months you will be hearing a lot about the European Union (EU). Part of the reason for this is that Ireland is taking over 'The Presidency' of the EU, but the other part is that in June elections will be held for the European 'parliament' in Brussels.
The final victory will be the people's
An interview with Farzad, an Iranian Dissident in Exile in Ireland.
Restlesness in the Andes
The Bolivian people suffer from one of the most blatant and shameless exploitations in the world by both their local and foreign rulers. They have a long tradition of organisation and direct action.
Book Review - Do or Die - vol 10
Voices from the Ecological Resistance
Anarcha-Feminism
An important principle of anarchism and one that more than any other differentiates it from other types of socialism is its emphasis on freedom and non-hierarchical social relations. Central to anarchism is the rejection of any power hierarchy between men and women.
The Fight for a Free Iraq
What is life like for the Iraqi workers caught under the occupation and all too often in the cross-fire? The US/UK occupying force is not too happy that Iraqi workers are organizing themselves rather then obeying the puppet Iraqi Governing Council
Wages Up 23%!
(of course not - only the bin-tax jumps up like that) The anti-bin tax campaign fought a long, hard struggle in 2003 involving pickets, blockades in estates and outside depots.
You can read the articles online at http://struggle.ws/wsm/ws/2004
You can download and print out the PDF version of the paper from http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/ws/79.html
Historical overview by Edward S. Hermann. Good articles on the human cost of the war especially.
Today the "link" between Spanish and Irish politics is clearer than most days.
Ryanair:- ("Mrs") Aznar the powerful Palacio is upset about the tax breaks given to Ryanair especially at Charleroi airport. It appears, that the most succesful Irish Air Carrier which has in it's last quarterly report demostrated excellent business acumen and ability to "survive" at an international level, is being afforded "privelage" which it might not actually warrent. Interestingly the airline is also under attack from disability rights groups in the UK and Ireland for charging wheelchair users 18eu for a use of another companies hired wheelchair for access to Ryanair aircraft.
You may watch the stock go up and down at:-
http://www.ryanair.com/stock.html
Now this affair is of concern to one Irish Politician who is _somewhat powerful_ but not as powerful as he thought.
Mr Pat Cox.
It will be interesting to see if MR Pat Cox will under "pressure" alter his decisions on the Ryanair corp.
for more "read scratch and smell" :-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=61322&condense_comments=false#comment60429
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Mr Pat Cox, is also due to recieve this week a letter from Mr Ernest Benach, the president of the Catalan Parliament, whom readers might be remember is afforded the title "an ceann chomhairle eile".In it, the Catalan Parliament (cross party) will outline it's statements on terrorism, it's opposition to armed force, and it's very serious indignation at the refusal of Mr Pat Cox to meet with Mr Ernest Benach earlier this month, which quiet obviously was a slight upon the dignity of not only his office but of Catalonia. A decision which Mr Pat Cox took personally and most apparently with more consideration of his personal dislike of Mr Benach's political affiliation rather than any respect due to Catalan and indeed Spanish Governmental institutions.
Wah Hey Pat!
for more scratch and smell :-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=63179
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The ICV (Catalonia's green party) [and third partner in the tripartite] have launched legal proceedings against Mr Aznar for spying on the officials of their government.
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ERC and EA the Basque left party which last week championed it's percieved "succesful Irish approach" to Basque problems have announced a "pact" between their deputies who will be elected to the "Cortes" or all Spanish parliament at the March 14 2004 elections.
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The Irish Politician and Nobel Prize winner, John Hume, has issued a statement in favour of dialogue, and outlining his support for new intiatives amongst the Basques and their allies to achieve Peace.
go on scratch and smell. Mr Cox you are still very much unforgotten.
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=5&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=96554&idseccio_PK=4&h=040203&c=hume
The Fortean Times Website has been updated with many new articles. Including: Nazi UFOs, Hair-snipping panic, Up the Hill Backwards, The Tattoo Festival at Wat and Trots In Space!
Trots in Space
Juan R Posadas was no ordinary Trotskyite; socialists from outer space, the benefits of nuclear war and communication with dolphins were all part of his revolutionary programme. Matt Salusbury tells the story of one of the World’s strangest political thinkers.
http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/176_trots.shtml
Plus Breaking News (weirder even then Indymedia) at:
http://www.forteantimes.com/breaking_news/breaking_news.shtml
Scary: The US denies Climate Change is happening (and makes it's plans anyway)
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A man was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the mailing of several booby-trapped parcels to European Union officials, including EU Commission President Romano Prodi, police said in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia.
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The suspect arrested on Tuesday was named as Lucas Farris. Police said he was young, although his age was not given.
He was said to be a leading member of a group called the Sardinian Association of Insurrectional Anarchists (ASAI).
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1512&u=/afp/20040203/wl_afp/italy_attacks_eu_prodi_040203101930&printer=1
The man is reported by the Napolitan daily paper to be 25 years of age.
His hobby being explosives.
He is a Sardinian (the sardinian newspaper "Union Sardo" is pay for view only)
italian lessons with pictures of his hobby at the link:-
A filmmaker and pro-free trade businessman questions why he was shot by police with a beanbag weapon during FTAA talks when he was on the sidewalk with other media, not in the street protesting.
It was late afternoon on Nov. 20, 2003, the bloodiest day of protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit in Miami.
Police and demonstrators had been skirmishing since mid-morning. About 4 p.m., police in riot gear began pushing protesters off Biscayne Boulevard onto Northeast Third Street.
A local commercial filmmaker named Carl Kesser found himself caught between heavily armed Miami police and Broward Sheriff's Office deputies and retreating protesters.....
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7846669.htm
This means that Ireland will become even more important - Shannon is the 'Pit Stop' into europe and then onward to the middle east.
Other bases will be used less as 'Pit Stops' thus making Shannon a key point in the US Empire.
that's my read on it, anyway.
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The US is preparing to cut the number of troops stationed in Europe by up to a third, according to the Financial Times.
However, Washington will not establish new permanent bases in Europe as some had feared it would to get back at member states for their opposition to the US-led war in Iraq.
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"From there, they will be sent on exercises or training missions to small bases established on a temporary basis in Poland, Romania or Bulgaria. The old days of the giant US barracks ... are over."
At the moment, the US has 119,000 troops in Europe, most of which - 80,000 - are stationed in Germany.
http://euobs.com/?aid=14312&rk=1
"suspect arrested " from gaurdian
Italy holds mail bomb suspect
John Hooper in Rome
Wednesday February 4, 2004
The Guardian
Website Online!
Hi,
The Organise! website is now online at: http://www.organiseireland.org
There is also an Organise! forum over on Anarchomedia at:
http://www.anarchomedia.org
wher folk can register feedback
inspired by the site "Bush in 30 seconds" which was a fun political advertising contest asking for 30 second sound bytes for Mr Bush, a site has now been built for Mr Aznar.
check out both sites:
http://www.bushin30seconds.com/
where you can see the spin suggestions.
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and the aznar site where _you_ can suggest the soundbytes Mr Aznar or his succesor will use. Because they always use our words anyway.
http://aznaren30segundos.com/
Calendar of
US Military Dead
during Iraqi War
http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm
The United Nations Society of Writers and Artists this week presented MIT professor of linguistics and author Noam Chomsky with the Award of Excellence. We hear Chomsky responding to reporters' questions after the award ceremony.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/05/177223
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2004 Winners have not been added to official website yet.
http://www.lurieunaward.com
here's last year's winners - some interesting political cartoons from around the world...
http://www.lurieunaward.com/2003winners.htm
LONDON (Reuters) - English punk rock icon John Lydon -- a.k.a. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols -- quit in the middle of a reality TV show on Thursday, saying it was the only way he could save himself from the anarchist's worst nightmare: winning.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040206/tv_nm/television_sexpistol_dc_1
The Metropolitan Police have settled an action brought
against them by 23 anti monarchist protesters for
unlawful arrest and breaches of the Human Rights Act
in particular in particular their rights to liberty,
privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of
association. This followed a demonstration at the
Queen’s Golden Jubilee Day celebrations (4th June
2002).
The rest of the story is at http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=67149
Well worth the read if you want a laugh and a useful idea
One of the protesters
The Simon Wiesenthal Centers website has been updated with startling allegations regarding the Hunt collection:
WIESENTHAL CENTER TO IRISH PRESIDENT: "EXPOSE HUNT MUSEUM'S COLLECTION ON INTERNET FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR CLAIMANTS, LAUNCH INQUIRY INTO NAZI TIES OF MUSEUM FOUNDERS AND SUSPEND THE IRISH HERITAGE AWARD"
Paris--In a letter to Irish President, Mary McAleese, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Director for International Liaison, Dr. Shimon Samuels, wrote that "Tomorrow, 27 January, most European Union member states will mark Holocaust Commemoration Day (the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp)," while drawing her attention to an Irish-related Holocaust-era issue.
Recalling that, "only last month you were quoted in eloquent praise of the "Irish Museum of the Year Award" being bestowed upon the Hunt Museum in Limerick," Samuels pointed to "the Irish Arts Review allusions to the extensive pre-war Nazi connections of John Hunt and Gertrude, his German-born wife." The letter added, "Further sources indicate:
Full Story At:
Fresh controversy about Donald Rumsfeld's personal dealings with Saddam Hussein was provoked yesterday by new documents that reveal he went to Iraq to show America's support for the regime despite its use of chemical weapons.
The formerly secret documents reveal the Defense Secretary traveled to Baghdad 20 years ago to assure Iraq that America's condemnation of its use of chemical weapons was made "strictly" in principle.
The criticism in no way changed Washington's wish to support Iraq in its war against Iran and "to improve bi-lateral relations ... at a pace of Iraq's choosing".
New edition is now up - Articles include "No to Privitisation - Save Our Public Services", News about the Civil Service Walkouts in Northern Ireland, An in depth look at Blair's worst week, Anti-Bin Tax, Anti-Water Charges, Anti-War and Anti-Racisim news and updates, an article about the state of Crumlin Children's Hospital... and others - including an update on the struggle of the sacked Belfast Airport workers (they are due in court in the next few weeks.) And those of you are interested in such things will notice the Paper has also been given a facelift.
All can be read at http://www.socialistparty.net/pub/pages/voicefeb04.htm
Also, generally - the site has been given an overhaul, and the Archives section has been updated and is now fully functional. I'm working on improving the search engine right now.
Socialist Voice
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Why?
President George W. Bush's approval
rating has slipped to 48 percent, the lowest level since February 2001,
according to the Newsweek poll. Fifty percent of registered voters say they
would not like to see Bush re-elected to a second term (45% say they would).
And if the election were held today, Democratic frontrunner Sen. John Kerry
would win over Bush by 50 percent to 45 percent among registered voters.
According to a new poll, only 15 per cent of us would vote for the President
[....]
For decades now, we have alternately railed against, and revelled in, the generalized American ignorance of Canada. At the same time, we have prided ourselves on being one of our neighbour's harshest critics. At the centre of our relationship is the conceit that so much of what we produce -- resources, goods, culture, people -- flows south, that America must really need us. Now, with the U.S. showing a willingness to stand alone and demand the obeisance due to the last remaining superpower, Canada, like the rest of the world, is caught up in an uncomfortable new reality. Bush's repeated "with us or against us" declarations have made it clear that there are new, tougher requirements for being America's ally. And as long as he remains well-positioned for another four years in the White House, we may have to do our share of puckering up. Canadians know that. We just don't have to like it.
As local and western media speculate on the identity of the February 1 suicide bombers in Irbil that killed dozens of Kurds, another news item slipped past the notice of most. During the last week of January, Paul Bremer (Colonial Overseer in Iraq), gave notice to another group of Kurds that the United States would begin military operations against the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), a formerly Marxist-Leninist organization dedicated to armed struggle in the name of Kurdish independence. In terms of the public mission of the US military in Iraq, there is no real reason for this move. Instead, this decision by the US reflects a deal that Washington worked out with the government of Turkey, which has fought this organization and Kurdish independence since time immemorial. In return, one assumes that Turkey will not move troops into Kurd-held territory in Iraq, at least for now.
For those who are not familiar with the PKK, let me briefly surmise their history and political philosophy. In their over quarter century of existence, this group has waged a consistent struggle for a Kurdish homeland. Unlike the other two parties, they are not on the CIA payroll and consider Turkey to be as great of an enemy of the Kurds as Iraq. Consequently, their primary struggle has been against the Turkish government—a government which until recently forbid the teaching of the Kurdish language in predominantly Kurdish schools and has fostered an ultimately racist attitude on the part of the Turkish people against the Kurds.