On Wednesday, July 2nd at the Bellville Magistrates Court courtroom E, two members of the Delft Anti-Eviction Campaign, Jerome Daniels and Ridwaan Isaacs, were each sentenced twelve months in prison - simply for being community leaders at Delft-Symphony Way settlement.
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The story of a covert US Government housing policy - conceived in the aftermath of the 1960s ghetto riots - to remove concentrations of potentially rebellious Blacks and other poor people from the inner city and disperse them in small groups to the suburbs.
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Morea talks of the 1960s Black Mask and Up Against The Wall Motherfucker! groups and their activities - such as busting into the Pentagon during an anti-war protest, and "assassinating" a famous poet. He also discusses friendships with various characters, including the late Valerie Solanas - who shot Andy Warhol and wrote the SCUM Manifesto.
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Anarchism in Jordan
Finally after more than 50 years of communist activism in Jordan the anarchists started to gather…most Jordanian anarchists r artists who work in music, film making, and graphic design, one of our comrades is finishing his master in gender studies…some comrades r Jordanian and others r Palestinian refugees living in Jordan…
Most of us come from Marxist background so theory has great importance for us…two comrades finally found an Arabic book that talks about anarchism…actually we found three more books but with different Arabic words for “anarchism”
1- Fawdawiya which literary means Chaotic
2- La soltawiya which literary means anti-authoritarianism
3- Taharoriya which literary means libertarianism
4- Anarkeya which literary means anarchism
We also found an Egyptian and Lebanese anarchist websites which were extremely helpful.
Until now we r about 20 comrades …I believe that there more anarchists in the country but it is hard to find them!
Lately, We became part of a bigger movement called the social left which consists of Marxists feminists and others…despite the fact that the movement has more than a 1000 member, we –anarchists- have ,relatively, very strong influence and effect in/on the group… we meet in Anti-globalization office in Jordan
When we started reading we looked for any form of anarchy in our own history and local culture…after reading a book called “Sufi tropics” written by an Iraqi writer(Hadi al Alawi).. we found that Sufism is ALL ABOUT anarchism…actually we found a website on the internet that talks abut Sufi-anarchism…now most of us label themselves as Sufi anarchists…we even found Sufi anarchist movements and groups from the 8-16 century… So after reading what we were able to find from Bakunin’s Prodon’s Kropotkin’s books…and after studying the history of anarchy in Spain Ukraine Paris Mexico…and after studying Sufism, we started to have our own understanding of anarchism…
a messed up comrade of us even worked on his own understanding of sufi-anarchism in away compatible with his views on post modernism and the fall of ideology or what he called nihilist Sufi anarchism(plz don’t ask me to explain!!!)
We heard about other groups in Egypt, morocco, Lebanon and Palestine but never met any of them…
Last week, a very important columnist wrote about us –anarchists- in the most popular newspaper in the country…after he saw our flag for the first time in a protest…
All political movements and parties in Jordan have a problem with numbers,…recruiting more people can be very difficult because most people r too afraid to participate…
In Jordan we still suffer from
expulsion from universities because of any political activities
laws that r extremely hard to understand and interpret which r used against political activists like:
disturbing civil harmony!
bashing higher status!
long tongue!!!
copying without permission!
Unauthorized gatherings!
Human Rights Watch talks about torture, kidnappings…there is also 3 years in prison because of founding unauthorized groups..
So, anarchism in Jordan still have a long way to go but it is expected to grow in the upcoming years…
From ur brothers/sisters …comrades
Jordanian Anarchists