Political Arrests in Belarus

For two days six detainees are under arrest in connection with the attack on the embassy of Russia. The arrests are going on...

LGBT Pride in Budapest: What Happened?

Indymedia Austria about the Pride (with further links): http://www.at.indymedia.org/node/18632
Antiracist blog - a very detailed article: http://pusztaranger.wordpress.com/
NOL.hu: http://www.noltv.hu/video/2853.html
Nepszava: http://www.nepszava.hu/articles/article.php?id=321998
Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5BWPYc8znk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR6bpHpRqMY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcYeu2CsSzk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcGHV9L4CLc
http://video.fn.hu/watch/7729

Antifa Hungary: http://afafi.blog.hu/

LGBT Pride in Budapest

Budapest Gay Pride Parade is largest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender event in Hungary. Budapest Gay Pride Parade 2010 will mark 15th anniversary of the event with one week long cultural event in Budapest.
This year Budapest Gay Pride Festival is taking place from July 4th to July 11th 2010. The March itself is going to happen on 10 July. As usual, behind the fences and with a lot of police due to a hue number of angry neo-nazis around that 'by chance' organize some demo in another part of the city and then may gather around the place where the Pride takes place.
The Pride expects thousands of participants, both from Hungary and abroad + various groups including Antifa Hungary, Rhythms of Resistance drummers from Vienna and Berlin  and the Pink Block Radical Cheer Leaders, as well as different LGBT organizations and Amnesty International Hungary.
See you in the streets!

Belgrade 6 are Free!!!

Belgrade 6 are free of any charges!!!

Solidarity Appeal from Ukraine: Stop Repression of Student Trade Union

A CALL FOR SOLIDARITY

Dear Comrades!

We are an Independent Student Union, “Priama Dija” (“Direct Action”) and we ask for your support.

The case is that for over the last six months, the union has been under unprecedented pressure. Everything started with our series of successful actions (together with other youth organizations) against the establishment of fees for previously free services in the universities, against cutting funds for scholars and against the plans to suspend scholarships for students who received even a single grade of “3”- (C). Ever since then, the intelligence services, together with the administration of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev, are carrying out a whole campaign of pressure against the union's activists. All available measures are used against them, including intimidation and repression.

BrainWash!

On 7 April feminists from CEU Gender studies organized a performance against the commercial (sponsored by P&G, advertisement of washing powder) exhibition “Great innovations for women” at Gödör, which relies entirely on gender stereotypes and makes false assumptions about women’s lives. The open-air exhibition at the very entrance of the club is a collection of giant things such as a vacuum cleaner, a washing machine, a bra, a lipstick, pants etc.

International Roma Day at Morze Infoshop

Morze Infoshop presents

'Without Rights'
 a film by TASZ (the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union)

Place: Tűzraktér
Time: 19.30
Date: 8 April: International Roma Day

Description:
During the aftermath of murders in Tatárszentgyörgy in 2009 TASZ (the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union) began visiting villages around the town of Ózd to support Hungarian Roma/Gypsies living in the area. With advocacy tools provided by the TASZ (HCLU), they assisted these communities advocate for themselves and effectively fight discrimination.
Why would a local government pass a law that forces clubs to close at 10pm, in an area where the only place open at that time happens to be Romani? How can someone be accused of carrying 700kg of wood on a bicycle? How can a case be labelled as a false alarm when the whole street witnessed a gun being pointed at a pregnant woman? How can the parents of six children be put in prison for two of their children skipping school?

Discussion after the film with Balázs Denes (TASZ) and activists from Amnesty International Hungary

Nationalism and antifa movements in ex-Soviet countries

Infoshop event: Nationalism and antifa movements in ex-Soviet countries.

Case studies: Russia and Ukraine

How safe is it for a person of a non-Caucasian appearance to walk in the streets of Moscow? Will you be sure that you can get home safe after a concert of a band propagating anti-racism and anti-fascism in Kiev? Did you know that in 2009 more than 60 people were killed and more than 250 people were injured due to racism based violence? Did you know what unites Ukrainian and Russian nationalists that used to hate each other after the collapse of the USSR?

We will tr to find answers to these questions during the event. We will watch short videos illustrating current struggle between nationalist and

antifascist activists in Russia and Ukraine, and afterwards I will provide the discourse of these movements in both countries. The discussion will

follow.

Thursday, 1 April, 19-30, Tuzrakter, Infoshop (follow the pointers).

Morze Infoshop in April

Bridge over the Wadi - Film Screening at the Infoshop

Morze Infoshop Presents:
Bridge over the Wadi (Tomer Heymann&Barak Heymann,2008, 55 min):
movie screening and workshop about a peace struggles of Palestinian and Israeli people.

Time & Date:
19-30, Thursday, March 25

Place:
Tuzrakter, Hegedu u. 3: most probably in the Apro ter (the room to the right from the entrance. Just in case, follow the pointers saying 'Bridge over the Wadi'.

What:
For the first time in Israel, a group of Arab and Jewish parents decide to establish a conjoint bi-national, bi-lingual school inside an Arab village.The film follows the school's first year and portrays through the personal stories of its characters, how complicated and fragile is the attempt to create an environment of co-existence against the backdrop of the complicated reality around.