•TMj^ii-oftmmmm vROmim 12I^«Pw editorial Abolishing the Borders from Below page 2 There is a justifiable need to abolish the borders between nations, societies, cultures and whatever else Distt separates and defines us. In order that this process does not lead to the formation of new borders or other types of segregation, like those established by elitist institutions such as the EU, NATO or UN, it has to be done from We are looking below, by the people. There is an enduring need to immediately abolish all states, governments and authoritarian ready to distribut regular basis in th institutions so that communities based on common values such as freedom, respect, cooperation and solidarity southern Europe) well available. Con above mentioned values. In order to push that process forward with support for the development of the anarchist movement over the borders we have created ... wielkowitsc More complex ij Free copi Free copies go to all There are many reasons why it is necessary to put out this type of publication on a regular basis. There are a large librarys in Eastern Ei number of anarchist groups in EE which could operate much more effectively with a continual exchange of ideas, with us) as well as t supply a postal adn tactics, experiences and materials with similarly minded groups from all over Europe and the World. It is clear that print by ourselves 1 many western activists are also interested in the ideas and actions of the "eastern anarchists". We believe it to be and there are some necessary to tighten the cooperation between east and west in resisting Fortress Europe, the globalization of the more copies by world economy, and above all capitalism and it's effects on our life. A mutual exchange of inspirations, agreement on that. motivations, and cooperation from anarchist communities all over Europe is needed on a day to day basis not only in times of international protests like the ones in Prague, Gothenburg and Genoa. The intent of this paper is to set Finan up a better network of communication between groups and individuals from different parts of this continent. It is Unfortunately until j also a platform for regular presentation and exchange for various anarchist groups from EE itself, as well as cover our editorial < helping to strengthen contacts between them and will hopefully lead to mutual inspiration. It also gives an the newspaper so A opportunity for effectively organizing common campaigns and struggles.The process of creating an editorial team for some benefits fr< for AbolishingBB was a great step toward this so we appeal to everyone to make the most of the information here as effectively as possible. Finally this paper can be seen also as a mirror of our movement so every positive development in EE is coming back to us in form of motivation for further work on this magazine ... As you probably not used in this newsp; gramatical and stylist An anarchist courier Other sources of info It is mostly because "AbolishingBB" is a bi-monthly bulletin discussion list, "Warhead" - internet info most of our coresp with information on different political and service of ©-activities in Poland,ABC/Poland - readers and most o cultural anarchist/anti-authoritarian info bulletin, "Avtonom" russian magazine of communicating. So o" activities in Eastern Europe. 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Executors collectives and projects working in your This collective was created in Autumn neighbourhood ... you can inform us about This website is fron Corespondents: Dima (Lwow - Ukraine), 2001 in Berlin by east-european migrant upcomming political and cultural events ... information about ou Orest (Pristina - Kosovo); Pavel (Prague - an archieve of all text anarchists. As well as this publication the CS), Krivash (Bratislava - Slovakia), Marija you can present statements of your group on collective also organizes radio-show, a (Skopje - Macedonia), Saszka (Grodno - local or global issues, you can express your newspaper in the p libertarian library, various solidarity Belarus), Nastya (Minsk - Belarus), Antti ideas, opinions or criticism ... everything never lose of its wort actions, informative meetings, cultural (Moscow - Russia), Tuuli & Slon from anarchist perspective. You can join our chapters are still unde (Petersburg - Russia), Domas (Vilnius - events. 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These are: "alterEE" EE-anarchists internet Anarchist Courier from Eastern Europe Abolishing the Borders from Below editorial Distribution W® fur© PI; , ' in We are looking for people/collectives 1 ready to distribute this publication on a regular basis in their regions (especialy in pages 6-7 southern Europe). Previous issues are as THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE'S well available. Contact for distribution: THIRD SUMMIT OF HEADS OF STATE AND [email protected] GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN WARSAW More complex information on page 5. "We are asking people for now to spread the information about the conference and contact us Free copies / Print-Bin if they might be interested in a protest action" Free copies go to all info-shops and libertarian pages 8-9/20-21 librarys in Eastern Europe (which get in touch INTERVIEW WITH ANARCHIST FROM with us) as well as to our corespondents who BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA supply a postal adresses. At the moment we print by ourselves 1200 copies of each issue, and there are some local groups which make "Imagine, we were stacked for few years here, more copies by themselves after our listening only music from 80's and the world was agreement on that. going on everywhere ouside of Bosnia..." Financial side pages 10-11 NESTLE BOYCOTT IN POLAND Unfortunately until now we were not able to cover our editorial costs only through selling INTERVIEW AND REPORT the newspaper so we are always very open "The GOPLANA factory survived two wars, the occupation, for some benefits from outside. 45 years of communism, Stalinism, but it didn't survive capitalism. I don't understand the policies of the government, bad enGJisH reputation not only the current one but all those before it as well" As you probably noticed the english which is used in this newspaper is very far from its pages 12-13 THE FIRST WOMEN CAMP gramatical and stylistic ideals. It is mostly because this is english in which IN BELARUS most of our corespondents, big part of our readers and most of us (as the editors) are "In Belarus the image of the women as mother is the most communicating. So obviously we choose to use popular image of women. It is like a counterbalance to english which is understandable for ourslves. Lukashenko as the father of the state." Secondly, we decided to be rather"bad english reputation" newspaper as to rise a level of language and this way eliminate probably 30- pages 16-18 60% of our regular readers, especialy in south INTERVIEW WITHANFEMA and eastern Europe. ANARCHA-FEMINIST AbolishingBB online GROUP FROM CROATIA You can find us as well online under: "We can say thet traditional feminism just made www.abb.hardcore.lt the bigger cage with harder bars" This website is from one side a source of information about our collective but basicly - pages 22-25 REPORT FROM RADICAL an archieve of all texts which appeared in our ECOLOGICAL PROTEST CAMP IN newspaper in the past. Some of them will never lose of its worth ! Check it out (some PERM-RUSSIA chapters are still under construction). "Goal of the protest camp is a total revoke of criminal program to utilise rocket engines and their fuel in Perm. Protest camp Deadlines will last until decisive victory ..." Deadline for next 15.10.2004 pages 30-31 Cover ANTI-NATO IN ISTANBUL Expression of our solidarity with Personal account from ANTI-NATO counter-summit which "Boycott-Nestle" campaign of polish took place in Istanbul / Turkey on 28-29 of June workers.