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Events from Anarchist Network Dresden

The Fallen Ones Remain Among Us – Space for Collective Commemoration and Grief

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Tuesday 08.09.2026 7:30-9:00 pm @Hole of Fame (Königsbrücker Str. 39, 01099 Dresden)

Loss is an inevitable part of life and activism. In the face of all the adversities we confront, political struggle always entails making some sacrifice. Loss can occur  in connection to our political struggle, repression, prison, war, displacement, femicide, genocide, or climate catastrophe. Losing loved ones, spaces, homelands, comrades, habits, familiar things, or entire species is overwhelming when one grapples with that alone. Remembering helps combat this sense of overwhelm. Yet remembrance is not a purely mental process, nor is grief merely an emotion. Commemoration is a living task. When we come together to process loss and hold grief collectively, it unleashes a tremendous force that brings people from different parts of the world together, provides the courage to take risks, and gifts the resilience to get back up when the situation seems hopeless. Every fallen friend is thus one more reason to keep fighting and to not give up.

No historian of the ruling system will write our history for us. We must actively take our place in history and write it ourselves, every day. In Stockholm, an anonymous comrade has repainted the inscription on the monument to the fallen brigadistas of the 1936 Spanish Revolution. Now it reads again: “Passersby, pause – remember them with pride.” Ensuring that the history of people, movements, geographies, and events is not forgotten helps us process the past and enables this history to live on in our hearts and in our movements.

As part of the exhibition—“In Motion: 10 Years of Anarchist Days”—there is one wall dedicated to collective mourning and loss. Everyone is welcome to contribute and take up space here. It is not necessary to have known people personally to mourn and remember them; sometimes we only get to know comrades after their death.

We invite you to an evening of collective commemoration. Here, we can share our grief collectively, exchange rituals, share thoughts, tell specific stories, draw or paint, and create this wall together. Please feel free to bring photos, flowers, drawings, stories, poems, songs, and personal items.

Further opening hours: 

A-Days Week: Tue & Thu 3:30 pm, Sat 2:30 pm + check the program to not disturb any event in the space
14.-17.09.2026,  3:30-5 pm

SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE – Travel Report | Auction | Exhibition Opening

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WEDNESDAY | September 09, 2026 | 5pm | FAU Lokal, Bürgerstraße 52

After four years of solidarity work for people in Ukraine, we began organizing delegation trips last year in October 2025. It was important to us to connect people, exchange ideas, see the situation on the ground for ourselves, show direct solidarity, and build long-term relationships. We’ve already organized two trips, and a third is being planned for October 2026.

We’d like to share our experiences and talk with you about solidarity.

There will be an auction featuring, among other things, gifts and photos we brought back, to raise money for the trip in October!
We’ll also be opening our photo exhibition as part of this event, which will be on display at the FAU Lokal starting September 9.

Programm:

5:00 p.m. Exhibition opening
6:00 p.m. Food
7:00 p.m. Presentation and Q&A
8:30 p.m. Auction

International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners August 23 – 30, 2026

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Call from solidarity.international

Marius Mason, an environmental and animal rights activist, anarchist, writer, artist and trans advocate, was serving the longest sentence to date for acts of environmental sabotage. After 17 years of incarceration, we celebrate his release as he was moved to a half way house on May 14 this year. 

Inside prison, he never gave up, but stood up for himself and others, advocated for trans prisoners and strongly resisted the prison system. All the years before for International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners and Trans Prisoner Day of Action, we called to write to him. Now, we are excited to remove him from our letter writing list and instead join forces again on the outside.

Still, there are many remaining in prison and on our letter writing list, and ever new ones are being added. Solidarity is key to be able to fight this repressive system. Solidarity can carry us through the darkest times – a postcard or a letter, a rally in front of the prison, a visit means the world and gives energy. A story of a comrade in prison shared on an event multiplies with those present. It is our responsibility to let their ideas and with them the persons themselves travel beyond the prison walls. By not forgetting those in prison, solidarity can grow.

That’s why we call every year for the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners. 

Times are getting harder, fascism is rising,and states, fascists and conservatives make us again the targets of their opposition – as progressive forces, Queers, Antifas, and Anarchists. They try to crush us such as in the recent convictions at the “Prairieland” case where people are facing up to 100 years in prison. Or the attempt to suppress the anarchist movement in Indonesia, where again after the May Day clashes ten anarchist are imprisoned and face serious charges.

In the face of that adversity, we need to stick together and act in solidarity. To strengthen our communities and support the most vulnerable. Let’s not forget the prisoners and instead fight side by side. People are not just prisoners, they are our comrades. Marius showed a great example of how we can reach out to each other to fight a shared struggle.

Join the International Week of Solidarity for Anarchist Prisoners!

Organize a letter writing, solidarity event, film screening, direct action, rally, or whatever comes to your mind and send pictures and a small report to tillallarefree@riseup.net.

Joint Trip – Feminist Anti-Prison Rally

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On May 31, 2026, there will be a feminist anti-prison rally in Chemnitz!
You can find the call to action here.
We want to travel there together with you!

May 31, 2026
Meeting point: 10:15 a.m. Schlesischer Platz, Dresden Neustädter Bahnof
Departure: 10:37 a.m. Platform 6
Arrival: 12:15 p.m. Chemnitz Technopark

May 31 – Anti-prison ralley – Chemnitz

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Join us at the women’s prison in Chemnitz: We won’t let them take away our colors—Together against prisons, the state, and patriarchy!

On May 31, we want to go together to the women’s prison in Chemnitz to show the people inside that they are not alone and have not been forgotten.

Prison means isolation, control by others, and violence. Prison is meant to punish, discourage, and discipline so that people conform to the prescribed social order. In doing so, prison is a tool of the state to maintain the capitalist, racist, and patriarchal social order that creates social problems and violent behavior in the first place.

Prisons have always been places to punish and remove from society’s “view” prostitutes/sex workers, beggars, and those who did not fulfill their socially assigned roles and were oppressed. Even today, it is people who experience poverty and racism, do not conform to gender norms, face other forms of discrimination, or suffer from mental illness who are more likely to be incarcerated than others (e.g., through community service orders or racially biased police stops). Thus, a large proportion of prisoners are in jail due to poverty-related “offenses.”

For women, trans* people, and queers in particular, the situation in prison is often especially difficult, as the prison system is patriarchal, gender-binary, and violent. For example, specific healthcare, hormone therapy, or educational opportunities are not available. Isolation from one’s own children and social circle are further aspects that define daily life in prison. Support work is often carried out by women; when they are then in prison, they often receive little support from cis-male relatives.

We know that prisons are meant to make our society’s problems invisible by hiding people from our view. We, on the other hand, want a society in which coexistence that is as non-violent and self-determined as possible is achievable. A society in which social problems are not individualized and criminalized, but rather addressed collectively. A society in which people can take responsibility for their actions and violent behavior can truly be addressed. A society without prisons, capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy. And we will not let anyone take that hope away from us!

So come with us to the Chemnitz Women’s Prison and let’s create some beautiful moments for the prisoners there. We want to try to break the isolation, at least for a moment—with music, greetings, and maybe even a few live performances!

Look for group train trips from your cities.

Hardfacts:
Sunday, 31 May 2026 | 1 pm
Place: women prison Chemnitz, Thalheimer Straße 29, 09125 Chemnitz