Happy #InternationalWomensDay. 🏴

"The world needs protection from the defenders of the fatherland."

One of the many terrible things about war is how it curtails our imaginations about *who* makes social change—and what tools are most useful for it.

Follow https://twitter.com/bad_immigrant for news from Ukraine/Russia/Belarus.

https://twitter.com/bad_immigrant/status/1501163201626619910

We now offer a separate RSS feed for each of the 36 languages available on our website.

Sign up to get an update whenever we publish something in your preferred language(s):

https://cwc.im/feeds

Please contact us if you can help with translation.

Globalize resistance!🌐🏴

The new episode of our podcast brings together the voices of a wide range of Russian anti-war protesters, describing the situation they confront and analyzing what it would take to end the invasion of #Ukraine.

https://cwc.im/exworker83

It concludes with "10 Lessons from Syria," a perspective from Syrian refugees who participated in the Syrian Revolution but were forced to flee when Putin supported Assad in brutally regaining control.

Support Russian anarchists against the war!

A hasty translation of a statement from Russian feminists whose homes were raided by riot police on March 5. The Russian government is terrorizing them for helping to organize anti-war actions around the country.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca6hTGHM8hN/

Stand with Russians against the invasion.

In Cologne, London, and Biarritz, activists have occupied empty properties belonging to the Russian government and Russian capitalists, seeking to provide housing for refugees and push back against the invasion.

Don't rely on governments to stop the war! Direct action gets the goods!

https://network23.org/stopg8/2022/03/14/russian-elites-you-occupy-ukraine-we-occupy-you/

You can read more about the occupation in Cologne here:

https://twitter.com/subversive_th/status/1502599587625938946

The Syrian Cantina: Organizing in Exile

https://cwc.im/SyrianCantina

As millions are driven into exile from #Afghanistan to #Ukraine, this interview explores how refugees can continue their political organizing in new lands and contexts, how locals can assist them, and the meaning of international solidarity.

This Thursday, at 7 pm Berlin time, we will co-host a video presentation with comrades from Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia about how people are experiencing and resisting the invasion in each of those countries and what solidarity could look like elsewhere around the world.

More information and the link for the livestream will appear here:

https://solidarityagainstinvasion.noblogs.org/

Join us and bring your questions!

"Beauty must be defined as what we are, or else the concept itself is our enemy."

As we slowly replace all the items that were destroyed in the fire that consumed our warehouse, we have reprinted our classic "Beauty" posters.

You can order them here:

https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/posters/products/beauty-subversion

Incidentally, the only other language we have this poster available in on our site is Ukrainian.

Tomorrow, at 7 pm Berlin time, speakers from Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia will discuss the effects of the invasion and how people are resisting it.

These are the livestream links:

https://kolektiva.media/w/7dBA55ZbSUbzFBrRURPBcp

https://youtube.com/watch?v=E0-M_voH-Bc

That's 2 pm Eastern on the east coast of the US.

This Friday, March 18, at 8 pm, at Digital Debris video gallery in Los Angeles, California:

Fall in Love with Fire: videos from the last idealistic revolt before COVID-19 and the first idealistic revolt of the pandemic age.

Limited seating.

Watch We Are Now online here:

https://crimethinc.com/2021/05/19/we-are-now-the-story-of-an-armed-no-cop-zone-in-atlanta-a-documentary-film

"Every Storm Begins with a Single Raindrop"

https://cwc.im/TekoserRafiq

This eulogy honors the lives of Lorenzo Orsetti and Ahmed Hebeb, who were killed during the last days of the fighting against the Islamic State in March 2019.

Taking place now: "Global Solidarity against the Invasion"—A panel discussion featuring speakers from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. Tune in here:

https://youtu.be/E0-M_voH-Bc