In small gangs, cops start charging towards groups of protesters, beating up people with batons and pepper spray, kicking and pushing them to the ground. Dozens of people are injured, many with serious head injuries, treated by paramedics, and waiting for a helicopter to hospital. Lützerath has become a battlefield, where cops defend fossil capital
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Is saving lives a crime? The trial of human rights defenders begins in Greece
Searching and rescuing refugees in distress — is this a crime? It is about to be decided. On 10th January 2023, the trial of human rights defenders Sarah Mardini, Seán Binder, Nassos Karakitos and 21 others will begin on the Greek island of Lesvos. The accusations include smuggling, membership of a criminal organisation, money laundering
Rewoke Malatesta’s dream
Staying in a 17th century building in the heart of Palermo was beautiful, eating pizzas and pasta alla Norma was delicious and climbing Mount Etna was breathtaking. But the highlight of my Sicilian holiday was strolling through the heart of Ragusa, entering the “Società dei libertari” and having a long conversation with Pippo and Letizia,
Prison Column: From an environmental prisoner
Freedom continues its regular prison column with an update from Jan Goodey who is currently serving a six-month sentence for blocking the M25 with Just Stop Oil. Seems to me I’m banged up for stating the bleeding obvious. The Financial Times article entitled “UK needs ‘war effort’ to cut energy bills and carbon emissions, say
A village to be evicted for coal – the defense of Luetzerath in Germany
Freedom provides a transcript of an interview on A-Radio Berlin with an activist of Radio Aalpunk from Luetzerath on January 7, 2023. The interview has been edited for clarity. 2023 arrived only a couple of days ago, and we already have to deal with the first eviction of a radical space in 2023, what a
The Black Book of Pushbacks
Freedom re-publishes a special report from in Are You Syrious? The first Black Book was published in 2020 amidst fears for our health, isolation, barriers to travel — a selfishness for the well-being of our own nations, and an utter dominance of media streams with just one topic. Yet, the team behind the first Black
What we know about the Paris shooting and its significance to Kurds
On the 23rd December 2022 a man named William Mallet opened fire on the street outside the Kurdistan Democratic Centre of Paris, which also houses the Kurdish Democratic Council of France. The attack killed three Kurdish comrades; Emine Kara, Şirin Aydin and Abdurrahman Kizil, a fourth person was also seriously injured. The attack hit international
You are the good cause
Freedom starts the year with an anti-burnout perspective: I keep on having the same conversation over and over again with various activists and people trying to evolve society. ‘What can I do? Am I doing enough?’ ‘I do this and it doesn’t fit in with my ideas.’ ‘I have to do things to survive in
ACAB’s legal roundup of 2022
A seasonal round up from your friendly ACAB Magi. No gold, frankincense or myrrh but three key messages from the year in the courts: 1. Sentences are getting waaaay harsher. 2. The court system has slowed to a crawl. 3. The days of “no jail for peaceful protestors” are finished. Sentencing “You lot say that
Prison Column: From an environmental prisoner
Freedom introduces a new regular prison column starting with Jan Goodey who is currently serving a six-month sentence for blocking the M25 with Just Stop Oil. News from the Financial Times had an impact on me. It reported that 9 million homes in the UK have poor or very poor leaky walls, in other words