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Over 100 people in Bucharest’s 3rd District thrown out of their homes!

rezistentaThe people on Vulturilor have been evicted on Monday, Sept 15, by court officers assisted by riot police. After a first night spent in the street, in front of their former homes, and while some former tennats were protesting in front of Bucharest City Hall, around noon on 16.09., policemen of the local force moved on Vulturilor 50. They loaded in vans and transported to an unclear location the belongings which had been stored on the street by former tenants. The evicted were expected to relocate, separately, to men’s and mother-and-children night shelters, a provisional solution which they refused. So far, local authorities have been uncooperative about long-term solutions or genuine relief for those left homeless. –
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Regional feminist solidarity meeting for activists in Central Asia, Caucasus and Eastern Europe

10-17 November 2014 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Regional feminist solidarity meeting emerged as an idea to bring feminist activists together to discuss and strategize around our security/well-being, solidarity efforts and movement-building. Here “feminist activist” means affiliating oneself with feminism(s) whether one’s activist work and group named feminist or not. As there are very few opportunities for us to support each other, reflect and discuss our needs/issues outside of professional skills-building, networking and collaborating primarily for our communities and our causes as community members, this meeting is an attempt to address our needs collectively as feminist activists and connecting with each other as feminist movement(s).

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Transformative Collaboration: co-creating healthy groups

8 – 16 November
Ecodharma, Catalunyan Pyrenees

In whatever ways we envisage contributing to the wellbeing of our world, it’s likely to mean collaborating with others. But groups are not always easy. They can feel frustrating, draining and unproductive. Meetings drag, personalities clash, power conflicts arise, chaos reigns and all this gets in the way of achieving what the group or organization set out to do at the beginning.

This training, set in a wild and remote part of the Catalunyan Pyrenees, will help you to learn how to better collaborate, co-exist, organize, communicate and make decisions together. Whether you are already working or living in a group or wanting to initiate something, this course will help you set up conditions for ongoing collaborative work.

Costs are on a sliding, needs-based scale from 200 – 850 euros for this 8 day residential training.

For more information visit www.ecodharma.com/courses-events/2014/10/08/transformative-collaboration

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UNITED NEIGHBOURS // De­mons­tra­ti­on at 27th of Sep­tem­ber // 3 p.m. // Spreewaldplatz

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The pro­tests at Ora­ni­en­platz, at the oc­cup­ied school in Ohlau­er Stra­ße and now at Gür­tel­stras­se have taken the strugg­le against ra­cism and ca­pi­ta­lism in the city to a new level. We, re­fu­gees and urban ac­tivists, fight to­ge­ther against con­di­ti­ons in which our need for hou­sing, free­dom of mo­ve­ment, so­li­da­ri­ty, and a self-​de­ter­mined life are sup­pres­sed by the go­vern­ment and the po­li­ce.

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Urgent call out for donations anti-prison and migrants struggle in Morocco

In Northern Morocco, many illegalised migrants and refugees are stuck, waiting for a chance to cross over to Europe. These past months, racist harassment has increased, particularly in Boukhalef, a quarter on the
outskirts of Tangier.

In the night between the 29th and 30th of August, this culminated in the stabbing of a young Senegalese migrant named Charles. The migrant community immediately responded to the murder by taking to the streets, protesting against this extreme form of racism.

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Invitation from the migrant communities for a demo in Calais 05.09

In the last weeks many of us had to face a lot of police violence. Some of us got broken hands and others broken legs and even some got hurt their heads. You can see that with your own eyes and you can hear of them how it happened.
In the next days the fascists will come to Calais to meet and demonstrate here. There is no shelter for us to be secure and to hide from them. We can not trust the police to protect us from them as we experienced already so much violence from them. Migration is not a crime and each and everyone of us has reasons why we had to leave our countries and our families and why we are here now. Europe is always talking about Human Rights and freedom but we can not find this here.
This is why we want to demonstrate and bring our demands on the streets. Therefore we are happy to invite you to our demonstration on friday, the 5th of September 2014, starting at 3 p.m. at Salam, the food distribution place.
We think your presence is very important to spread our message everywhere and show the reality that we have to face.
We will make a press conference after the demonstration to give space for personal talks and your questions.

The migrant communities in Calais.

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Creative Action Training

For Central and Eastern European Organizers
September 9-13, 2014
Budapest, Hungary

As global temperatures rise, we see a new urgency for social and political action. The fpic troubleossil fuel industry is polluting our bodies, our land, our atmosphere and even our democracies. We are up against the richest corporations in the history of money – to stop them we are going to have to get creative!

Read more: https://beautifultrouble.org/creative-action-training-budapest

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CALL FOR SUPPORT: translation and publication of Emma Goldman’s “Living my life” in Russian

PLEASE SPREAD THIS CALL!

emmaThe publishing cooperative Radical Theory & Practice from Moscow has initiated a new project: translating Emma Goldman’s autobiography “Living My Life” into Russian and printing it for distribution. This will be the first ever, integral translation of the work into Russian; three abridged chapters were translated in 2009 by Sharapov*. This work consists of 56 chapters in which Goldman describes her political and personal life: her childhood, her time in Russia and reflections on the Russian Revolution, going on till 1927. The book was first published in English in two parts in 1931 and 1934, and has been reissued several times since, and translated into many other languages, but never into Russian.

This text is relevant not only as part of the body of libertarian and feminist works on theory & practice, but also for  historians, social scientists and feminists outside in all of the post-soviet countries. Such a translation will find an audience in
Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia and further on amongst Russian readers.

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