DIRECT ACTION
von Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell


BRAUNSCHWEIG Mi. 08.04.2026 19 Uhr Universum Filmtheater in Anwesenheit von Guillaume Cailleau

https://www.filmgarten.at/direct

In Anlehnung an die gleichnamige Proteststrategie - „eine Aktion, die darauf abzielt, unmittelbar und mit effektivsten Mitteln zum Ziel zu gelangen“ - ist Direct Action das zeitgenössische Porträt einer anregeden militanten Aktivist*innengemeinschaften in Frankreich - ein 150 Personen starkes ländliches Kollektiv, das mehrere gewaltsame Räumungsversuche des französischen Staates überlebte, erfolgreich ein internationales Flughafenerweiterungsprojekt in der Bretagne verhinderte, von 2012-2018 eine autonome Zone schuf und drei Jahre später zur beachtlichen Umweltbewegung wuchs. Durch seinen kollaborativen und einzigartig immersiven Beobachtungsansatz dokumentiert Direct Action den Alltag eines vielfältigen Ökosystems aus Aktivistinnen, Hausbesetzern, Anarchisten, Landwirtinnen und von der Regierung als „Öko-Terroristen“ abgestempelten Personen, um besser zu begreifen, wie der Erfolg radikaler Protestbewegungen eine Schneise durch die Klimakrise - vielleicht gar aus ihr heraus - schlagen kann.

Kinostart mit Unterstützung von @medienboard

#deutschland #kino #directaction #cinema

Claim of Responsibility for Arson Attack on a Cop’s House

by Anarchist Strike Group “Memory and Anger”

  • In March, no one dies (March 2010, Daphne – Lambros Fountas, an anarchist guerrilla who fell in a clash with cops) – (March 2026, outskirts of Rome – Sara Ardizone and Sandro Mercoliano, anarchist comrades who were killed by an explosion)
  • In October, no one dies (October 2024, Ampelokipi, Athens – Kyriakos Xymitiris, anarchist guerrilla killed by explosion)
  • In May, no one dies (May 2025, Thessaloniki – Snizanna Paraskevaidou, fell in an explosion during an attack on a bank)

And the story continues like this. Through the battles of our own people, ordinary, everyday. Like Lambros, like Kyriakos, like Snizanna, like Sandro and Sara and so many more people who lost their lives in direct action.

With determination, with our own rage and memory, we took to the streets at dawn on March 10, the date that the anarchist revolutionary guerrilla Lambros Fountas fell fighting under fire from cops in Daphne 16 years ago and we attacked a cop’s house in Kaisariani with an incendiary device.

We have every reason to target the state’s cadres who act as security guards for the bosses and the ruling elite. With this move, we want to remind them and all the cops that we will not leave their activities unpunished. They are the ones who target activists, violently attack demonstrators, torture and murder people in the departments, at the borders, as well as people from the impoverished margins and our class. Let them remember and know that we can also locate them in their homes, in their neighborhoods, in their jobs and that they are not truly safe anywhere by making this choice to serve the system.

It is a fact that the state invests in order and security by strengthening policing at every level of central government. In this way, it prevents as much as possible any resistance from below on behalf of capital while at the same time strengthening military-police capital through funds for security forces and armament programs. This is a parallel phenomenon in relation to the international geopolitical situation. As the war intensifies abroad (Middle East, Ukraine) and the Greek state participates in it through the Greek-Israeli-American alliance, NATO and the EU, so does the repression at home. Cops of all kinds are positioned to manage our lives. The same applies to every field of public space from universities to neighborhoods, squares and natural places (see Exarchia Square, Strefi Hill).

Let fear change camp then. No matter how much the complicit and regime-based mass deception media cover you up by hiding our actions, we know the anxiety that these visits to your homes cause you. If you do not gather, we will come again. Our lives are not expendable. We want to show that you are the terrorists and dangerous to the public interest, not us who return the minimum percentage of violence that is yours.

We express our solidarity with the Palestinian people who are fighting. Let us intensify the anti-war action against the war crimes that are occurring in Palestine, Lebanon and Iran by the Western bloc. We will not become meat for the murderers’ cannons because the local leaders, with Mitsotakis and Dendias as the first and best, rushed to ally with Netanyahu and Trump.

The choice to connect these contents through action on the day of remembrance of the anarchist guerrilla Lambros Fountas constitutes a connecting link between memory, action and continuity.

STRENGTH TO ALL PALESTINIAN MILITANTS DETAINED BY THE ISRAELI NATIONALIST (ZIONIST) REGIME AND THREATENED WITH THE DEATH PENALTY

FREEDOM AND SOLIDARITY TO ALL THE COMRADES PERSECUTED FOR THE CASE OF AMPELOKIPI

Anarchist Strike Group “Memory and Anger”

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640602/

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=31070 #AmpelokipiCase #anarchist #arson #DirectAction #europe #greece #KyriakosXymitiris #lambrosFountas
Direct Action #67: Newsletter of the IWW Ireland Branch

Direct Action is the latest monthly issue of the IWW Ireland Branch newsletter for members and supporters across Ireland.Direct Action No. 67 is now available online and on printed format upon request from your local organiser and members.The online edition of Direct Action is available HEREIf you would like to play apart in the fight back against the bosses and the downfall of the wage system them we ask you to please get involved and get active wherever you work or live.You can join the IWW Ir

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Hey folks! I'm making an educational board game about direct action and I'm looking for best aftercare practices. What are good ways to support your community AFTER engaging in direct action?

#anarchism #DirectAction #strike #resistance #solidarity

Today in Labor History April 5, 1977: U.S. disability rights activist stormed and occupied the offices of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle. They demanded enactment of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which had passed Congress four years prior. The law mandated that no federally funded programs could exclude persons with disabilities and put into place legal protections, and the right to accommodations, for students with disabilities. During the prior four years, HEW director Joseph Califano repeatedly delayed enactment of the law, while regulations were weakened to benefit business interests. During the San Francisco protests, disability rights activists Judith Heumann, Kitty Cone, and Mary Jane Owen organized a 25-day occupation of the US Federal Building with 150 other activists. Solidarity support was provided by the Black Panthers, allied politicians, and the International Association of Machinists, who donated food, mattresses, wheelchairs, and other equipment, and who helped a delegation get to Washington, D.C. The regulations for section 504 were ultimately signed into law on 28 April, 1977.

For a really great documentary on the birth of this movement, please see “Crip Camp, A Disability Revolution” (2020).

#workingclass #LaborHistory #CivilDisobedience #occupation #directaction #disability #ableism #union #solidarity # #blackpanthers #sanfrancisco #JudithHeumann #KittyCone #MaryJaneOwen #BlackMastodon

Power concedes nothing by choice so #DirectAction is a common tool of #SocialJustice. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1913, armed with biscuit-tin bombs and targeting male-dominated activities, Scottish #suffragettes set fire to the grandstand and other buildings at the #Ayr racecourse.
The push for #divestment from the #apartheid régime in #SouthAfrica was a big nationwide fight with a lot of #DirectAction. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1985 students took over #HamiltonHall at #ColumbiaUniversity, holding it for three weeks, successfully making the university divest.
DIRECT ACTION
von Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell

KÖLN Di. 07.04.2026 20 Uhr Filmhaus in Anwesenheit von Guillaume Cailleau

https://www.filmgarten.at/direct

In Anlehnung an die gleichnamige Proteststrategie - „eine Aktion, die darauf abzielt, unmittelbar und mit effektivsten Mitteln zum Ziel zu gelangen“ - ist Direct Action das zeitgenössische Porträt einer anregeden militanten Aktivist*innengemeinschaften in Frankreich - ein 150 Personen starkes ländliches Kollektiv, das mehrere gewaltsame Räumungsversuche des französischen Staates überlebte, erfolgreich ein internationales Flughafenerweiterungsprojekt in der Bretagne verhinderte, von 2012-2018 eine autonome Zone schuf und drei Jahre später zur beachtlichen Umweltbewegung wuchs. Durch seinen kollaborativen und einzigartig immersiven Beobachtungsansatz dokumentiert Direct Action den Alltag eines vielfältigen Ökosystems aus Aktivistinnen, Hausbesetzern, Anarchisten, Landwirtinnen und von der Regierung als „Öko-Terroristen“ abgestempelten Personen, um besser zu begreifen, wie der Erfolg radikaler Protestbewegungen eine Schneise durch die Klimakrise - vielleicht gar aus ihr heraus - schlagen kann.

Kinostart mit Unterstützung von @medienboard

#deutschland #kino #directaction #cinema
Abahlali baseMjondolo – Umhlaba Izindlu neSithunzi Land Housing Dignity

'Wir nehmen die sozialfeindliche Politik der Österreichischen und Wiener Regierung nicht mehr hin! In der Nacht vom 27.03.2026 sabotierten wir Entwertungsautomaten und Ticketautomaten in den Wiener Ubahn-Stationen und machten sie unbrauchbar. Damit wollen wir einerseits Sachschäden an den Wiener Linien verursachen und andererseits das Entwerten von Tickets unmöglich machen, um ticketloses Fahren zu entschuldigen.

Eine Politik von den Reichen für die Reichen

In ganz Österreich werden aktuell bei Sozialleistungen, Bildung und Gesundheit stark eingespart, auf der anderen Seite aber Reichensteuern konsequent abgelehnt. Diese Politik lässt die ärmsten der Bevölkerung für den Wohlstand der Reichen bluten.....'

Sabotage von Ticketinfrastruktur

https://emrawi.org/?Sabotage-von-Ticketinfrastruktur-Bekennerschreiben-3955

#ÖPNV #Österreich #Austria #Sabotage #DirectAction #Protest #Antireport

Sabotage von Ticketinfrastruktur – Bekennerschreiben

Wir nehmen die sozialfeindliche Politik der Österreichischen und Wiener Regierung nicht mehr hin! In der Nacht vom 27.03.2026 sabotierten wir Entwertungsautomaten und Ticketautomaten in den (...)