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Audio: Anarchism in Berlin and struggles today

category international | anti-capitalism | opinion/analysis author Sunday August 23, 2009 15:26author by Andrew - WSM (personal capacity)author email andrewnflood at gmail dot com Report this post to the editors

An interview with Shane, a member of the Berlin anarchist media group about conditions in the city and the anarchist movement there.
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While on a recent visit to Berlin I interviewed Shane, a member of the Berlin anarchist media group, who was the organiser of my public meeting on 'Organised anarchism in Ireland'. The conversation covers a number of areas including the economy of the city, gentrification resistance, strikes, tortured geography, the legacy of the 80's squatting movement, the collective housing movement today, Kopi and its many bars, the place of the collective houses in the Berlin left, the drawbacks of the 'scene', organised anarchism in Berlin, the nature of the autonom groups, post apartheid South Africa, economic re-structuring, struggles around service delivery, the role on 'internationals' in the Berlin scene and anarchist publishing with the anarchist media group.

The anarchist media group have a website at http://www.anarmedia.info

The interview is 25 minutes long and was recorded on August 20th

Related Link: http://anarchism.pageabode.com/andrewnflood

Kopi - hte collective house (legalised squat) that was the site of the interview
Kopi - hte collective house (legalised squat) that was the site of the interview

A surviving fragment of the Berlin wall
A surviving fragment of the Berlin wall

An abandoned US Spybase in what was West Berlin
An abandoned US Spybase in what was West Berlin



Conversation about anarchism, struggle and the left in Berlin
audio Conversation about anarchism, struggle and the left in Berlin 12.46 Mb

author by Andrewpublication date Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

While in Berlin I shot this video inside the NSA spybase on the Teufelberg (Devil's Mountain), Berlin. At the end of the war the rubble of Berlin was collected into huge mounds. In west Berlin the largest of these known as Devils Mountain was used to bury a Nazi training school. Later the American built a large NSA spy base on top to listen in to communications in both West & East Berlin. After the NSA pulled out there was a failed attempt to turn the base into luxury apartments. Then it was fenced off. But people cut the fence to get into the ruins of the base. Today the fence is patched and patched again but still the holes are cut.

You can access the video to rate, leave comments at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yum_1WK7O7o

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Inside the NSA spybase at Devils Montain, former West Berlin


 
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