Infoshop Budapest

New feminist social centre in Bucharest!

Solidarity from Budapest with ‘Sofia Nadejde’, the new anarcha-feminist social space in south romania. Opened Saturday the 7^th December, Sofia Nadejde hosts the FIA (women/girls/feminism in action/activism) mobile library, as well as the feminist reading group. It will provide space and infrastructure for a variety of feminist groups and actions. As a community centre, it will host discussions and meetings. There will be a vegan café every week and also a reading room. Also, there will be spaces for sewing, film projections, storage and other activities.

Contact the collective at ‘Centru feminist Sofia Nadejde’ cfsn@riseup.net.

More details will be found here http://centrufeminist.wordpress.com/

The Budapest Infoshop invites you to a discussion about the recent resistance movements in ukraine and romania. In Kiev, hundreds of thousands of people are on the streets, protesting the government and the political system. In Pungesti, local villagers are resisting the riot police and the thugs of Chevron, as the oil company tries to set up fracking gas facilities in the area. We will talk about these issues and other related movements in these regions.
Also, on Monday we release the third issue of the zine ‘Buruieni‘, dedicated to more than ten years of anarchist and anticapitalist struggles in romanian cities. Other zines and printed materials related to the discussions will be available. tea and popcorn as well.  bring a friend!
WHEN: Monday, 9 december, 18:00
WHERE: Klit feminist queer social space (for exact adress email fork@riseup.net)
free entrance

This is the Hungarian translation of our previous announcement about Pungesti, east romania:
Pungestiben,Észak-Romániában a helyiek ellenállásba kezdtek  Chevron tervezett földgáz kitermelési szándéka ellen.

A helyi lakosság és a nemzetközi közvélemény hatására a Chevron csökkentette Pungesti környéki aktivitását.

Legalábbis december 1-ig,amikor hajnali hat óra körül támadást intéztek a földgázkitermelés ellenzői ellen.

A rohamrendőrség és a Chevron összefogtak a palagáz kitermelés ellen tiltakozó helyiek proteszt-táborát,mely a Chevron által a palagáz kitermelésre kiszemelt helyszínre vezető úton állt.  Két hónapig tartó békés tiltakozásra való válaszképp a rendőrök összevertek és letartóztattak 40 tiltakozót,akiket később egy közeli városba szállítottak kihallgatásra.

A készenléti rendőrség szóvivője eleinte nem kívánt nyilatkozni az ügyben,egy később kiadott nyilatkozatában pedig cáfolni próbálta a tiltakozók készenléti rendőrség által megtörtént bántalmazásának tényét,aminek nagy mértékben ellentmond a beavatkozásban résztvevő rendőrök a beavatkozás képi rögzítésének megakadályozására tett kísérletei. A rendőrség és a Chevron megpróbálja megakadályozni az újságírókat a felszámolás alatt levő proteszt-tábor megközelítésében,a helyszínre vezető utat rendőri csapatszállítók és a Chevron járművei blokkolják.

Egy,a helyszínen tartózkodó személy beszámolója:  “Megérkeztünk Pungestibe,de nem tudunk a proteszt-táborban maradni,mert megszállta a rendőrség és a készenléti rendőrség. Idefelé jövet rengeteg rendőri csapatszállító jármű mellett haladtunk el. A rendőrség Silisteában is blokkolja tiltakozás helyszínére vezető utat,a készenléti rendőrséghez tartozó állomány tagjai úttorlaszokat helyeztek ki és szigorú megfigyelés alatt tartják a helyszínt. Az torlaszon csak azután engedtek át bennünket,miután közöltük velük,hogy egy Pungestitől távol fekvő városba igyekszünk. Ekkor még nem tudtuk,hogy nem foguk tudni bejutni a proteszt-tábor helyszínére, ahol az ott tiltakozók még folytatják a rendőri erőszakkal szembeni ellenállásukat. Miután világossá vált,hogy nem tudunk bejutni a tiltakozás közvetlen helyszínére,visszatértünk Silisteába,ahol a palagáz kitermelés elleni tiltakozásnak egy kisebb támogatói bázisa van,és valami működő stratégiát próbálunk kitalálni az ellenállás folytatásához. Szörnyű,mi Pungestiben történik. Mindenkit aki teheti kérünk,hogy mobilizáljon és jöjjön ide.Az eddig tiltakozók nagy része megsérült a rendőri erőszakban és traumatizált.Terjesszétek!”

A rendőri blokád annyira kiterjedt,hogy a tanköteles gyerekek sem tudnak eljutni iskoláikba. A teljes helyi közösség mindennapi élete lett többszörösen felforgatva. Az útlezárás sem a helyiek érdekeit szolgálja, a tiltakozásban tevőleg nem résztvevő helyiek sem tudnak eljutni munkahelyeikre,és a sajtó képviselőit Pungestitől több kilómlteres távolságban tartóztatják fel a rendőrök.

A jogsértő rendőri beavatkozás annak minden részletében a helyi hatalmasságok a rendőrség és a Chevron által lett eltervezve azzal a céllal, hogy az energetikai cég az általa kinézett helyszínen zavartalanul felállíthassa palagáz pontos kitermelési helyének megállapításához és későbbi kitermeléséhez szükséges(súlyosan környezetkárosító) műszaki eszközrendszert,annak ellenére, hogy Tom Holst,a Chevron Romániai menedzsere előzetesen leszögezte;a Chevron a jövőben mindenféle aktivitástól távol tartja magát Pungestiben addig,amíg nem nyeri el a helyi közösség  a palagáz kitermelésével kapcsolatos beleegyezését.

A rendőrség és a Chevron jogsértő fellépését a helyi közösség két hónapos folyamatos megfélemlítése és zaklatása előzte meg.

Ez egy felelőtlen és veszélyes globális érvényű támadás az emberi és a polgári jogok irányába,és egy legalább 3 hónapja tartó Románia és nemzetközi színtű, a palagáz kitermelése és ciános felszíni ércbányászat elleni tiltakozás ellenében történik.

Mindenkit kérünk, adja tovább ezeket az információkat és segítsen eljuttatni a Romániai helyzet köztudatba jutását.

December, 2nd, 2013.

Corporations cannot make the legislation!

In Pungesti, east romania, people are resisting Chevron’s fracking efforts. After facing strong opposition from local community and from a strong trans-national movement of support, Chevron had to scale down activities in Pungesti. At least until Monday night, when the assault started around 6 AM!

The riot police and Chevron joined forces to dismantle the local resistance group camped across the road from the field where Chevron plans to explore for shale gas, using hydraulic fracturing. After 2 months of resistance, 40 people were beaten, arrested and taken to the nearest town for further investigations. The Spokesperson from the riot police did not come out with a statement until much later and denied any abuse, while the riot police officers prevented the people from filming and recording the intervention. Media representatives do not have access to the site, and the road to Pungesti is blocked by Chevron equipment and Police intervention cars.

One personal account: “we made it to Pungesti. We can’t stay in the camp anymore, it’s full of police and gendarmes. On our way here, close to Pungesti, we passed many vehicles full of cops. In Silistea, the road is blocked with fences and gendarmes that guard them fiercely. In order to pass the fences, we had to say that we head to a town further away from Pungesti. We did not know that we couldn’t get to the camp [where people are resisting]. We have to return to Silistea, where few people support the Resistance and have banners. We’re trying to find efficient solutions, it’s horrible what’s happening here. Chevron is setting up the installations, they have all their machines on the field. Please let’s mobilise and go there! People are beaten up and scared. Share!”

Children cannot go to school at this point. The life of the entire community has been severely disrupted. The road is also blocked for anyone else, the villagers cannot go to work and the press is kept kilometres away from Pungesti. All this was planned in detail by the local authorities, the Police and Chevron in order to help the company install its shale gas exploring equipment on the site despite prior official statement from Chevron country manager Tom Holst to halt any activity until the community agrees with the project. The same equipment will be used for the exploitation phase as well.

This abusive intervention follows two months of continuous harassment and intimidation of the local community. It is an irresponsible, dangerous attack on human and civil rights, as recognized worldwide. All this is happening in a context of large 3 months nationwide (and international) protests against fracking and cyanide use in Romania.

Please spread the news and help us raise awareness on this difficult situation in Romania.

Links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDMHzdu4Hr8

http://www.gazedesist.ro/?sLang=en

http://fracking.casajurnalistului.ro/english/

The Infoshop invites you to the screening of RUINS (2013, 57′), a documentary directed by Zoe Mavroudi, about the criminalization of HIV in Greece. The story of a group of HIV- positive women who were detained by the Greek Police, forcibly tested, charged with a felony, imprisoned and publicly exposed, when their mug shots and personal data were published in the media, in the run-up to the country’s 2012 national elections.
The screening will be followed by a discussion.

When: next Monday at 6pm, December 2nd, 2013
Where: KLIT, Budapest (for the exact address of the venue, please contact us at fork@riseup.net ).

RUINS website: http://ruins-documentary.com/en/

KLIT: http://klitbudapest.wordpress.com/

Take-home zines

Our infoshop has a nice collection of fanzines that you can read and take home. We have materials on such topics as: feminism, queer politics, radical organising, anarchist theory and practice, animal liberation, green anarchy, gentrification, patriarchy, racism, antifascism, do-it-yourself, anti-nationalism, anti-capitalism and many more.

You can find zines about struggles and resistance from occupied territories with names such as hungary, canada, france, england, u.s., romania, spain, italy, belarus, germany, poland, austria and so on. You can read them in hungarian, english, spanish, french, romanian, russian, polish etc.

All zines can be read inside the Klit space, where the infoshop is hosted. Some zines you can take home, for a small donation that we use to print other zines.

Our collection can also be used for radical events, where there is a need for a distro-table, a space where information can be distributed.

We will keep posting about some of our special zines and journals. In the meantime, visit us during Infoshop and Klit opening hours: http://klitbudapest.wordpress.com/program/

Read, share, and fight! knowledge is power!

To commemorate the international day against fascism and antisemitism, the Budapest Infoshop invites you to a discussion about the current situation of the far-right in Hungary. Extreme right ideas are finding a fertile ground in this country. Racism is manifested through hate speech and violent actions against Roma and Jewish people, and not only. Far right groups have paramilitary organisations that harrass people while patrolling in the villages and towns of the countryside. Budapest is also the scene of numerous far-right street actions, far-right symbols, statues of nazi leaders, and even shops with far-right merchandise. At the same time, the public reaction against these problems is still very low. Join us next Monday for an open discussion about all these things, where everybody can bring and share their own experiences.

When: Monday, 11.11., 7pm

Where: Klit

[Klit is a non-authoritarian, non-racist and non-sexist space. for more information, please visit http://klitbudapest.wordpress.com/ ]

cows against fascism!

The current infoshop is not the first of its kind in Budapest. for a few years already we have had different projects. We organised many events and brought a lot of people together. Here are some of the traces that we left:

http://lmv.hu/budapestinfoshop

http://morzeinfoshop.blogspot.hu

http://morzeinfoshop.narod.ru

Monday, 4th November, at 7pm, Budapest Infoshop will show a movie about the Ungdomshuset squat in Copenhagen. “69” is a documentary about a large group of young people who did not see themselves, culturally or politically, as part of established society. In 1982 they lawfully occupied what was known as the Youth House (Ungdomshuset) at Jagtvej 69, on the outskirts of Copenhagen’s inner city. The film portrays the group’s situation in 2007, documenting the stormy last six months of the Youth House’s history, where the radicalized group rage against the establishment. By following the inner circle of activists, we learn more about the group, the reasons for their actions, and the cause of their predicament.

Place: Klit (for the exact location, write to fork [at] riseup.net.)

Time: 7pm

Despite the spread of internet and other media, access to information is still unequal and barred by censorship, surveillance and copyrights. Our infoshop is a place where you can find free printed materials (books, zines, leaflets, posters, stickers) on radical topics. It is an autonomous, self-organized and do-it-yourself project based entirely on donations. There is a large section of materials that you can take home, and the rest you can enjoy reading in Klit’s comfy lounge spaces. The infoshop is a space where you can discover and exchange ideas and thoughts, where you can have free and unlimited access to information. Our space is open to anybody, regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexuality and gender identification, regardless of their so-called education level, social status or abilities. It is a space that is free of authoritarian, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic or speciecist ideas. Our materials focus on anarcho-feminist, anti-fascist, animal liberation and ecological, DIY and punk, anti-racist and anti-nationalist issues – among others. We want to have regular events where we show underground political films, have presentations of different struggles from all over the world, and generally intermediate the exchange of ideas and stories between people that are interested in such topics.

We are hosted by Klit: http://klitbudapest.wordpress.com/