Anarchistisches Netzwerk Dresden
In dieser Sendung sprechen wir mit Roja, Ali und Em über die Situation und Kontinuitäten der Proteste im Iran, Erlebnisse und Diskussionen in der Diaspora und die Rolle des Körpers im Mittelpunk des Protests.
Hier könnt ihr die Sendung hören. Außerdem auf freie-radios.net und archive.org.
Musik:
Mahdieh Mohammadkhani
Located in the heart of Odessa is the CP3-2 housing project, which has been collectively run for several years. The space serves as a hub for art and culture, as well as living quarters for various activists and artists. Due to the war, the building – like much of Ukraine’s infrastructure – is in poor condition as a result of constant bombardment and a lack of financial resources. That’s why we need your support!
The most urgent repair project right now is the roof! Before winter sets in, major roof repairs are scheduled to be carried out in the fall of 2026. There are also many other problem areas in the building. For example, the windows have to be reinforced every time after bombings.
We’re traveling to Odessa in July to support the project and bring a donation to purchase necessary materials.
We were already in Ukraine last year on a delegation trip to meet various people and projects and provide necessary support.
We’re calling on you to donate a small amount. Support this self-organized community space, which—despite the war—offers a place for exchange, art, politics, and solidarity.
All donations go to the projects´s collective and will be used for roof maintenance and other repairs.
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
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
This year, too, we want to take to the streets with you to stand up for our anarchist beliefs on the traditional Workers’ Day. This day symbolizes the hard-won rights of workers, which are currently under massive attack once again.
What Federal Minister of Economics Reiche calls a “return to greater economic freedom and personal responsibility” actually amounts to a ruthless dismantling of social security systems for the benefit of a select few. Merz is agitating—without any factual basis—against “work-shy individuals,” the supposedly spiraling costs of the citizen’s income, and the concept of “lifestyle part-time work,” which he himself invented. The basic income reform, the removal of health services from the list of statutory health insurance benefits, cuts to continued pay during sick leave, raising the retirement age, weakening the statutory pension, and the abolition of the eight-hour workday are being seriously discussed or have already been decided—all of this with virtually no significant protests. The already completely absurd distribution of social wealth is shifting in only one direction—and that is even further upward.
But we want far more than to defend and thereby perpetuate the current status quo. We want to talk about what work means to us and what it could look like if it were not subordinated to capitalist logic, but rather if we organized it ourselves, free from exploitation and oppression. We want to reflect on what we truly need and how we can produce it without destroying our global foundation for life and without it making us sick. We want the work that needs to be done to be distributed fairly—globally, but also in terms of gender. We want to discuss ways in which we, as a society, can work for wages less (not more!) in order to find enough time for what really matters: nurturing social relationships, building communities of solidarity, maintaining health, education, and political participation, …
Work, work, work?
We want more out of life!
So join us in large numbers at the anarchist demonstration on May 1!
12:00 PM – Wettiner Platz – Demonstration
2:00 PM – Jorge-Gomondai-Platz – Rally with info tables and workshops
7:00 PM – FAU Local (Bürgerstr. 52) – Get-together
