<nettime> mailradek no. 25 (against all parties, info)

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AGAINST ALL PARTIES CAMPAIGN INFO
An issue of <Against all parties> newspaper published in 1000 copies,
additional coipies expected. The issue contains analytic, informational and
compromising information dedicated to the election campaign, many photos
included. You can see extracts from the paper at www.mailradek.rema.ru.
Phone order 095/137-7131

The following things are due on the 17th of December in the Institute of
Contemporary Art on the Chisty Prudy, 8:00 PM (Sretensky blvd., 6/1, the
highest floor, a few steps from the <Chisty prudy> station ): the
presentation of the Against All Parties campaign, the campaign site, a text
compilation (articles by B.Kagarlitsky, I. Zasursky, O. Kireev, I.
Aristarkhova, verses by D. Pimenov and other materials), and also
proclamation of boycott against TV information. There will also be music by
Pavel Shevchenco, a ZaIBi video and an exhibition. An "Against all parties"
campaign presentation will be combined with the other's campaign starting
presentation, which is a boycott for the main TV broadcasting info channels
(ORT, RTR and TV-Center). We look for the free information distribution in
the internet instead of TV.

Stickers are becoming more and more powerful a political weapon than
leaflets. People far from political activities are paying much more
attention to colourful stickers than to black and white texts. The campaign
activists stick such banners as <Our bomb against the elections>, <The war
is only needed by the politicians. Elections'99>, <Vote against all NOW!> in
the Moscow subway. The most effective way is to stick these directly onto
the election advertisements of various fractions, or onto advertisement as
such:
<Suffering toothache? - Vote against all parties!>.

The <War and elections> leaflets (check mailraded #42) are distributed in
the subway and suburban trains. There is going to be an action, conducted by
activists, which is going to look this way: <We are pretty sorry for
disturbing you, but you should vote against all parties>.

A broadcast of <Up to 16 and older> (ORT, 16:00) on the 14th of December was
dedicated to voting <against all> and some other issues of resistance (such
as militia supporting heroin trade etc.). Every progressive person should
watch this broadcast, at least the monthly issues produced by the team
constisting of Marina Potapova, Sergey Loban, Zakhar Mukhin etc.

Punk rock can regain its political effectiveness, for there are new concerts
taking place under actual political slogans. There was a concert in the
Jerry Rubin club on the 12th of December under the title of <Against all
parties>, with campaign activists as show leaders. This is important, for
the Russian punk scene has been rather apolitical lately, and some punk
performers are published on various corporative labels.

An action took place on the 8th of December at the Lenin Mausoleum. It was
quite like the old one, by which an old Radek group intended to start the
Against all Parties campaign. The Mausoleum was captured by a group of
activists who posted onto in a banner saying <AGAINST ALL>.. The action which
regained the spirit of Moscow actionism, had a direct media orientation,
and, indeed, attracted much attention of the media. The campaign was then,
on the last October, planned as a network of uncoordinated initiatives, and
that's the way it is conducted now. There are various initiative groups
conducting actions and propaganda in Moscow (antifascist magazine
<Positive>, Anatoly Osmolovsky with a group of followers, the mailradek
headquarters), and also similar activities are reported in various
locations, from Sochi to Magadan.

A pacifist picket took place near Yury Dolgoruky monument. A group of
anarchists built a fence of red flags, which lasted for 20 minutes, and
announced this space to be an anti-military zone. The leaflet dedicated to
the action contained anti-state and <anticonstitutional> slogans.
The 11th issue of the <Autonom> magazine is published in Krasnodar. The
quality of the magazine has been substantially improved, and the number of
regional branches of the Kuban Anarchist Federation increased. <The Autonom>
continues to publish various texts dedicated to anarchism history and some
recomendations on modern resistance methods, such as establishing pirate
broadcasts, closed <mail channels>, and also hints on how to behave at FSB
investigations.




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