Wie schreibe ich Briefe an Gefangene? Workshop
How to write to Prisoners? – Workshop

Das Schreiben an Gefangene ist ein einfaches aber effektives Mittel Gefangenen zu zeigen, dass sie nicht allein und vergessen sind. Briefe sind oft der einzige Lichtblick im alltäglichen Grau der Anstalten.

Für uns Menschen außerhalb der Gefängnisse ist das oft kaum vorstellbar und gleichzeitig haben viele Bedenken einfach so Gefangenen zu schreiben. Was soll ich schreiben und was nicht? Ist es nicht irgendwie dumm wenn ich wem im Knast von meinem Urlaub schreibe? Was schreibe ich einer mir komplett fremden Person?

Auf diese und andere Fragen wollen wir im Zuge dieses Workshops eingehen und nach einem Input gemeinsam Briefe und Postkarten an Gefangene schreiben. Adressen und Material stellen wir bei Bedarf gerne zur Verfügung.

Kommt vorbei und zeigt euch solidarisch!

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Writing to prisoners is a simple but effective way of showing them that they are not alone and forgotten. Letters are often the only ray of hope in the everyday gray of prisons.

For us people outside of prisons, this is often hard to imagine and at the same time many people have reservations about simply writing to prisoners. What should I write and what not? Isn’t it kind of stupid if I write to someone in prison about my vacation? What should I write to a complete stranger?

We want to address these and other questions in this workshop and, after some input, write letters and postcards to prisoners together. We will be happy to provide addresses and materials if required.

Come along and show your solidarity!

abc-wien.net | solidarity.international

Offenes Organizing Treffen (IWW)

Wie geht es uns in der Arbeit? Wie kommen wir darüber mit Kolleg*innen ins Gespräch? Wie können wir uns mit ihnen gemeinsam organisieren, um unsere Situation zu verbessern? Wie können wir eine Betriebsgruppe aufbauen? Welche Methoden funktionieren in unseren Betrieben und welche nicht? Was können wir aus Fehlern lernen und in Zukunft besser machen? Auf diese und viele andere Fragen versuchen wir, im lockeren Rahmen gemeinsam Antworten zu finden. Das offene Organizing Treffen findet jeden ersten Dienstag im Monat ab 18 Uhr im Volxklub Ottakring (Familienplatz 6 / 1160 Wien) statt und ist offen für alle Interessierten, egal ob IWW-Mitglied oder nicht.

Volxclub, Familienplatz 6, 1160 Wien

Do 12.09.2024 | 20 Uhr

Warm Beer Cold Women – An Anti-romantic Manifesto

Input and Discussion – will be in english, german whisper translation possible if needed

There will be a short input and presentation of the topics and ideas behind the text so you can also join if you did not read the whole text!

On this occasion we will discuss the text Warm Beer Cold Women – Anti-romantic Manifesto by the queer-anarchist group Good Night Macho Pride from Zagreb. The group was founded for the purpose of building accountability in punk circles around the issue of gender based violence. The text was published on the occasion of a punk event celebrating Valentine’s Day and it deals with the connection of the modern ideology of romantic love with violence against woman and queer people.

While workers working in the public sphere are disciplined by bosses, the police, unions and various institutions, workers in the private sphere are firstly disciplined by the husband / partner, and only secondly by the state. The reality of romantic relationships is the expectation of a certain kind of labor, the labor of care – emotional, sexual and housework. If people coded as feminine fail at this tasks, they can expect all kinds of emotional manipulations, threats and ultimately violence.  The ideology of romantic love serves to reinforce heteronormative gender and bodily expectations, and as such does not only affect heterosexual couples, but also queer, trans and intersex people. We will discuss possibilities of different kinds of relations – ones that are based on friendship and comradery, that are not defined by the laws of the market, the rhythm of labour, imposed feelings of guilt and duty, psychological and physical violence, that are not commensurable and calculated. Relations that are the only thing that is authentically ours in a world colonized by the market and the spectacle.

Link to the Text: https://good-night-macho-pride.netlify.app/media/warm-beer-cold-women_final.pdf

Offenes Organizing Treffen (IWW)

Wie geht es uns in der Arbeit? Wie kommen wir darüber mit Kolleg*innen ins Gespräch? Wie können wir uns mit ihnen gemeinsam organisieren, um unsere Situation zu verbessern? Wie können wir eine Betriebsgruppe aufbauen? Welche Methoden funktionieren in unseren Betrieben und welche nicht? Was können wir aus Fehlern lernen und in Zukunft besser machen? Auf diese und viele andere Fragen versuchen wir, im lockeren Rahmen gemeinsam Antworten zu finden. Das offene Organizing Treffen findet jeden ersten Dienstag im Monat ab 18 Uhr im Volxklub Ottakring (Familienplatz 6 / 1160 Wien) statt und ist offen für alle Interessierten, egal ob IWW-Mitglied oder nicht.

Volxclub, Familienplatz 6, 1160 Wien

Do. 03.10. Politbeisl | 20:00

Politbeisl: Textdiskussion: A Call against Arms! w/ Antipolitika

Antipolitika is an informal network of friends and comrades from the Balkans and beyond, that produces a thematic journal. So far we have published three issues: on the subject of war, Yugoslavia and nationalism.

The participants of the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair who came to Prishtina this year from 29 countries, spanning from Chile to Azerbaijan, called for the first week of October to be a transnational week of action against militarism and nationalism. For this occasion, on the 3rd of November, we will present and discuss the text “A Call Against Arms – Systemic Drivers of the War(s) and an Autonomous, Anticapitalist Anti-war Position”, which we have written in May this year. We call for a struggle against capitalist social relations, together with movements against racism, patriarchy, environmental destruction, militarism and in defence of the commons, with war resisters and deserters from the various war fronts, with feminists, migrants, precarious workers and environmental activists, a struggle that will create an autonomous anti-war movement against the capitalist machine of death and despair.

Talk will be in english, german whisper translation is possible if needed.

@ekh

✨❤️‍🔥FEMINIST TAKEOVER❤️‍🔥✨

🔥The cops in the streets, the catcalling, the cis dudes staring. But even in leftist and autonomous spaces the “I am the feminist” dudes, macker Bois, mansplaining masters, the exclusion through reproducing binary unreflected stereotypes, the “expert boys” to “expert boys” talks and also sadly different forms of verbal and emotional aggressions.
Those are just a few things that make our FLINTA* rage grow every day.

🔥What can we do to feed our radical feminist joy and organize together in our day to day struggles?

🔥In a loose continuation of “Radical Gossip” workshop held in summer, we want to give a space to questions, ideas and sharing a nice time together.

🔥Our hope is to create a community that can support each other’s ideas and to start regular meetings to provide a space for different forms of organizing. We want to think about how the EKH spaces can be used as a platform for queer and feminist events, actions and voices.

✨Where: EKH
✨When: 18.10.2024
✨Doors open: 20:00

✨🔥✨Come, bring your FLINTA* and feminist friends and let’s be cute and radical together✨🔥✨

✨❤️‍🔥 FEMINIST TAKEOVER ~ 2nd Meeting!! ❤️‍🔥✨

🔥 What do we, FLINTA and victims/survivors of sexualized and other forms of patriarchal violence, need to feel empowered, acknowledged and respected in leftist spaces? How can such spaces stop falling on the perpetuation of such violence which force so many of us to leave scene after scene?

🔥 To speak up is not easy for the community reactions. Silence is violence, lack of a response or putting all weight on the affected persons is too. But are all actions taken having its basis on the restoration of the damage? Is the transformation of the community addressed? Are we happy with the current state of patriarchal violence management in our circles?

🔥 Let’s join together to compile all won battles, analize what we need from our circles and what could our community do better. We’ll use that to create a zine/manifesto to show clear clues on how we want patriarchal violence to be dealt, so no leftist space can continue missing them!

🔥 Besides that, there will be again a space for any new radical or creative feminist ideas we might need.

🔥 Let’s be creative to become a collective threat to the patriarchy in our circles without compromising our mental health on the process. Let’s take our speech and space back!

✨Where: EKH
✨When: 06.11.2024
✨Doors open: 20:00

✨🔥✨Come, bring your FLINTA* and feminist friends. Let’s be cute and radical together!✨🔥✨

Offenes Organizing Treffen (IWW)

Wie geht es uns in der Arbeit? Wie kommen wir darüber mit Kolleg*innen ins Gespräch? Wie können wir uns mit ihnen gemeinsam organisieren, um unsere Situation zu verbessern? Wie können wir eine Betriebsgruppe aufbauen? Welche Methoden funktionieren in unseren Betrieben und welche nicht? Was können wir aus Fehlern lernen und in Zukunft besser machen? Auf diese und viele andere Fragen versuchen wir, im lockeren Rahmen gemeinsam Antworten zu finden. Das offene Organizing Treffen findet jeden ersten Dienstag im Monat ab 18 Uhr im Volxklub Ottakring (Familienplatz 6 / 1160 Wien) statt und ist offen für alle Interessierten, egal ob IWW-Mitglied oder nicht.

Volxclub, Familienplatz 6, 1160 Wien