An hour long presentation on some concepts of community armed self defense among a section of the anti-authoritarian left in the so-called United States. We’ll focus on development of certain tendencies and groups in the last quarter of a century with a focus on anarchist formations and frameworks as well as discussing some key moments in recent history that speak to the current state of this movement from the perspective of the speaker.
Following the speech, we’ll have at least 30 minutes for audience questions. Hosted by Bursts, an anarchist mostly engaged in movement media through The Final Straw Radio and anti-repression work via Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross.
In 2021, in so-called Atlanta, GA, a group of young people land defenders began resisting the construction of a police training facility ( known now as Cop City) by moving themselves to live in the Weelaunee Forest in south Atlanta, putting their bodies against ecological destruction and police militarization. By 2023, they were forcibly removed. Some of them—Indigenous identified trans women — continued caring for each other and carried on important conversations started at the Weelaunee Forest. Out of this 4 years conversations process emerged a set of principles rooted in everyday survival: trying to build autonomy from the ground up by balancing community care with revolutionary broad actions and projects .The culmination of these processes of nurishment & recipes collective creation is called the Autonomous Kitchen Council( AKC) , an organizing & cultural production model, a tool for all communities building,defending and celebrating their spaces and mutual aid & abundance wirldwide. One lesson rings clear: There is no liberation without land. As the Weelaunee defenders teach us—abundance exists, but it must be recognized, celebrated and nowadays, increasingly, defended. By incorporating the four principles of the Autonomous Kitchen Council in the collective day-to-day struggle against the rising challenges of fascism, capitalism and resource scarcity, we are reclaiming the means to survive and nourish each other beyond the systems that are collapsing around us.
Friday 05.09.2025 19:30-21:00 @Internationalistisches Zentrum
WenDo ist ein Konzept zu feministischer Selbstverteidigung und Selbstbehauptung. Im Kurs geht es um Handlungsmöglichkeiten in grenzüberschreitenden Situationen, wie Anzüglichkeiten, verbale, sexuelle und körperlich Übergriffe. Wir üben selbstbewusstes Auftreten und klare Grenzen setzen, knüpfen an unseren Stärken an, erweitern die eigenen Handlungsmöglichkeiten und trainieren einfache Selbstverteidigungstechniken.
Teilnehmer*innenanzahl auf 12 Personen begrenzt. Bitte anmelden: atage_dd@systemli.org Freitag 05.09.2025 16:00-18:00 @FAU Lokal (Bürgerstraße 52)
Workshop with „this is insane!“ The workshop intends to open a conversation about tools and practices that enable self-determination and self-organization for mental well-being. After a short introduction on the history of antipsychiatric struggles and some of its current stakes, we will share and discuss tools we can use in order to support each other in circumstances of mental suffering, distress, breakdowns, or other moments we don’t feel good.
Mental health related questions should not be considered as individual private issues but rather as political collective questions. And therefore we can develop collective and solidaric propositions to deal with them, and support each other.
Crisis plans and support groups are some of those accessible and actionable tools we can introduce in our lives and our communities, among our friends and affinity circles. So that a situation of distress or doubts does not result in social isolation, or face for unique possible answer the necessity to look alone for professional help. They allow us to learn about ourselves and what we experience, they give the possibility to share those insights with people around us, and create the conditions we collectively need to develop skills and capacities for community support.
Different resources in the forms of zines and posters will be proposed to support the conversation and the reflection afterwards.
This lecture explores the history of the Free Territory — an anarchist stateless society that existed in southern Ukraine in the early 20th century. You will learn about money without denominations, peasant self-governance, and a powerful army composed solely of volunteers. The talk will highlight women and gender-nonconforming people who led military units, as well as the daring attempt to realize anarchist ideals — an experiment ultimately destroyed by betrayal.
The lecture will also reflect on the present: the forms anarchist resistance and thought take in today’s Ukraine, and why contemporary Ukrainian anarchists consciously choose to defend the country’s independence.
