For two month people have been protesting in the street in Belarus.
The 9th of August was the election day and Lukashenko hoped to be reelected like in the past 5 election periods. But this didn´t happen. First time in his ruling period real results were published. And to no ones surprise Lukashenko didn´t achieve 80 % as he usually orders everybody to announce.
This show was inspired of the recent strikes in Bangladesh concerning the garment industry. Due to difficult labor conditions and a lack of enforced work safety regulation the textile industry and especially the workers in those factories are facing many problems. One year ago we conducted an interview with two women from Sri Lanka and Indonesia working in unions with a feminist and queerfeminist mindset. Dian and Chamilla paint us a picture of the fight they are fighting and tell us about the demands they are making in their unions. These two extrodinary women told us first hand about their experience with union work in the garment business, battling not only for minimum wages and fair working hours, but also about the obstacles they are facing trying to organize feminist unionwork in a deeply patriarchal society. Additionally, we talked about the relation between feminism and fair labor conditions.
Am 23. August 2020 gab es Präsidentschaftswahlen in Belarus. Lukaschenko wird seit 26 Jahren wiedergewählt, in seiner Perspektive auch dieses Mal. Am Wahlabend veröffentlichten einige Wahlbüros die richtigen Ergebnisse und diese zeigten eine andere Realität.
Vom 23. – 30. August findet seit 8 Jahren eine Internationale Woche der Solidarität mit anarchistischen Gefangen statt. Wir beschäftigen uns immer wieder mit dem Thema Knast und möchten deshalb auch dieses Jahr zu diesem Thema eine Radiosendung für euch machen. Wir wollen euch einige Menschen aus Geschichte und Gegenwart vorstellen, die im Knast waren und sind und darüber sprechen, warum Solidarität wichtig ist.
A new decade has started on this planet. With the rise of right-wing movements and the slow decline of social democracy, we are looking into coming years of intense struggle with the state and capitalism. There are already many anarchists sitting in prisons for taking on this fight—forgotten or ignored by liberals and human rights NGOs for “violent” actions.
