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Subject: Radical-europe Digest, Vol 13, Issue 1
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Date: Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Subject: [PGA_Europe_resistance] Deserter day 2008 around Russia
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Deserter day 2008 around Russia
(source and version with photos: http://avtonom.org/index.php?nid=1612)
In 2004 "Day of defender of the fatherland", formerly "Day of the red
army", got a status of an official holiday - this marked it as an
anarchist day of protest if it had not already been before. States are
celebrating many doubtful issues, but a state holiday in a day of ethnic
an cleansing, that of Chechens and Ingushetians in 1944, was about too much.
This year deserter day festival around 23rd of February was organised
first time outside Moscow - in city of Kirov North-East from Moscow. Up
to 100 anarchists, good part of whom came from other cities such as St.
Petersburg, Moscow, Izhevsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Ufa, Perm and Tyumen
joined the events. Police was patrolling train station, illegally
arresting and writing down details of many participators of the events -
however due to succesful conspiracy good part of the events could be
organised without police interference.
23rd of February workshops were organised, owner of premises where they
were supposed to be organised refused due to pressure from side of the
authorities, but eventually an alternative place was found which did not
leaked to police prematurely. First local human rights activists from
Vzyatski region children's association and Committee of Soldier's
Mothers told about current reforms in military system, legal means to
evade army service and usual legal mistakes which officials commit and
which make evading service more easy.
After these lectures, there were talks on topics not directly related to
the theme of the festival - short history of the student resistance in
Russia since 1980's, and current issues which students are facing - such
as commercialization of the higher education due to Bologna process.
Another current issue is so called "autonomization" of schools and
universities, which gives government a pretext to close those schools
and universities which it considers not profitable enough. There have
already been some succesful struggles against this process.
Two remaining workshops were about information security in internet and
with mobile connections. In the evening, documentary "Workingman's
Death" by Michael Glawogger was screened.
Next day there was a legal meeting at square of the Philharmony from
13:15 to 14:15, unfortunately organiser of the meeting with legal
documents was in a car accident, so meeting was launched half an hour
late. Dozens of police were monitoring the event, filming all the
participators with video cameras. Eventually participators could unroll
banners with texts "Peace is better than a commemoration" and "No to
violence on the world", festival guests from Nizhniy Novgorod brought a
banner commemorating a man who recently deceased during his service,
with a text "Roman Rudakov 1986-2008 - who will be next?". Accompanied
with drums, participators scanned "I do not want to serve, I want to
live very much!", "Army is a school of slavery, we want to study and not
to wage war!", "Nobody will return a year from our lives!", "We will
struggle, our peace is not for sale!", "I was born in order to live, not
in order to serve inthe army!", "Freedom, equality and
anarcho-communism!", "Peace to the world, war against war, no to
violence in Chechnya!" and "Our fatherland is the whole humanity".
After meeting, there was a spontaneous discussion about purpose of such
actions and another one on relation between anarchism and punk/hardcore
scene. A concert planned for the evening could not be organised due to
interference of the authorities.
Actions in other cities:
Barnaul
In Barnaul, graffiti was made in night between 22nd and 23d of February,
and a Food Not Bombs-action where anti-militarist leaflets were
distributed was organised in 23rd.
Bryansk
In night between 22nd and 23rd of February anarchists and anti-war
activists of Bryansk painted around 50 graffiti to various buildings,
including local call-up center and military headquarters. Nobody was
arrested.
Chita
Two call-up centres in the center of the city were painted during night
between 22nd and 23rd. Slogans "Army is a school of violence and
slavery", "Hunger of a soldier is cheaper than assault rifle" were
painted, as a stencil "In army you pay your dues to the state - I wonder
when I borrowed from it that much?".
Irkutsk
In Irkutsk, local group of Autonomous Action decided to organise a movie
screening against military callup. Propaganda films made by Siberian
military district against bullying and stealing in army and punishment
for these crimes were shown, as they were great propaganda against army.
After movie screening there was a discussion on theme of resisting call-up.
Kazan
In Kazan, anti-war stickers were distributed and a banner with text
"Better to help people than to kill" was dropped from a local bridge.
Moscow
In Moscow, Deserter day-actions were organised 4th time already. Those
who could not travel to Kirov organised actions in Moscow - first Food
Not Bombs-action, then demonstration of some 30 people from metro
station "Universitet" to metro station "Akademicheskaya" with banner
"Food Not Bombs" and a red and black diagonal flag. Anti-militarist
slogans, such as "You are just a cheap weapon for them!", "Deserter is a
defender of humanity!", "Go to the streets - reclaim the city!", "All
the states are concentration camps" and others were scanned. Leaflets
"No soldiers - no wars!" were given to passers by. Demonstratin passed
by call up center of Gagarinskiy area, it was painted with graffiti with
text "No to war". Nobody was arrested - traffic police spotted the
demonstration and announced it to local police station, but as they
could not foresee route of the action they could not stop it.
Short videos from Moscow actions:
http://ru.indymedia.org/usermedia/video/5/u_voenkomata.avi
http://ru.indymedia.org/usermedia/video/7/shestvie.avi
St. Petersburg
A meeting to commemorate deportation of Chechens and Ingushetians
organised by Memorial human rights center gathered only some 30 people.
Some 10 anarchists from Association of Libertarian Initiatives, a new
coordinatory group between various anti-authoritarian groups of St.
Petersburg joined action.
Vladivostok
During days in prior to deserter day, activists painted local
universities with stencils with text "Fuck the Army".
Booklets with recommendations to those going to protest actions were
printed by emerging group of Anarchist Black Cross in Vladivostok and
distributed amongst local activists. Local anarchist paper "Udar" made a
special issue with theme "There is such a profession - a deserter",
mocking a familiar military recruitment slogan.
23rd was a very cold and windy day in Vladivostok. But some twenty
people showed up in the action, with a banner "Head of a soldier is
cheaper than an assault rifle" and black and red diagonal flags. Due to
bad weather there were just few passers by, except in the very center of
the city. Sea torches were lit, "Our fatherland is all humanity", "Be a
human - defend the planet!" were scanned.
In contrary to exceptions, cops and boneheads did not interfer with the
action so according to organisers, it ended up "a bit boring" action.
24th of February a Food Not Bombs was organised.
For actions last year, check
http://www.avtonom.org/index.php?nid=672
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