FOR THE GOOD LIFE

1. ANTIFA FESTIVAL BASEL

2-4 September 2016, Basel, Switzerland

Schwarze Erle, Schwarzwaldallee 269 / Carambolage, Erlenstrasse 34

 

Program

FRIDAY:
16:00 Doors
16:30 Louise Stebler (Basel, CH)
18:00 Antirassistische Perspektive Bern (CH)
19:30 VoKü / Planet Earth Allstars Band (World/Jazz, CH)
20:15 Offene Diskussion zu Feminismus und Antifaschismus
21:45 Schwach (HC, DE)
22:30 pogendroblem (HC/Punk, DE)
23:15 The Broots (Strange Reggae/Dirty Beat, CH)
00:30 Oszilot (Post Punk/Wave/Synth, CH)

— Dokumentationen zu Rechtsextremismus —

SATURDAY:
14:00 Doors
15:00 kaffee & kuchen / Briefe schreiben
15:30 Antispefa (Milano, IT)
17:00 Marienthal United (Zwickau, DE)
18:30 On the situation of refugees in Como (I)
20:00 VoKü
21:00 Work Life Balance (HC, DE)
22:00 We Laugh (HC, DE)
23:00 Partisans du Hip Hop (Rap, CH): C.O.T.I (Rap/Ge) / Joe Pepsy & DJ Tiny Tim (74M)
00:00 DJ Kaostella (Bailefunk, BR)
03:00 DJ getting Any? & acid waterfalls (CH)

— Dokumentationen zu Rechtsextremismus —

SUNDAY:
12:00 Brunch & Walkshop

 

PRESENTATIONS

FRIDAY

• Louise Stebler (CH)

Vortragstitel: “Basler Antifaschismus im Zweiten Weltkrieg”

Gespräch und anschliessende Diskussion mit der Antifaschistin Louise Stebler (91) über Widerstand und Repression während dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in Basel. Als junge Frau war Louise Mitglied der verbotenen Gruppierung “Freie Jugend”, die u.a. deutsche Güterzüge sabotierte. Bis heute ist sie aktiv in der Friedenbewegung.

• Antirassistische Perspektive (Bern, CH)

Title of the presentation: “The Swiss extreme right-wing scene – Developments of the last 15 years” (presentation in English)
The association “Antirassistische Perspektive” (anti-racist perspective) organizes and supports anti-racist projects and events, in particular educational programmes, information material and zines, awareness campaigns,
public relations work and other similar initiatives. The aim of these measures is an increased societal awareness and conveying facts and background information on racism, right-wing extremism and xenophobia.

• Offene Diskussion zu Feminismus und Antifaschismus, moderiert von schamlos

 

SATURDAY

• AntiSpeFa (Milan – IT)- AntiSpeziesistische AntiFa (AntiSpeciesist AntiFascists).

Title of the presentation: “The new environmentalist right-wing movement in Italy”  (presentation in English)

AntiSpeciesist-AntiFascists Milan are a counter-information archive about right wing infiltration of the Italian environmentalist and animal rights’ movement. Our blog is updated by anti-authoritarian environmentalist activists who fight for a 360° liberation for all living beings. This work is in loving memory of Clément Meric, a very young antifascist and antispeciesist militant, who was killed in Paris on the 5th of June 2013 by neonazis.

• Marienthal United 08 (Antifa soccer club – Zwickau – DE)

Vortragstitel: “Antifaschistisches Engagement im sächsischen Fußball – Chance und Wagnis”
Der Vortrag gibt einen Überblick über Marienthal United und sein gesellschaftliches Engagement. United ist ein Verein, angetreten, all jenen die nicht mit Nazis und Menschenfeinden in einem Verein spielen wollen, eine Alternative zu bieten. In acht Jahren Vereinsgeschichte in der sächsischen Provinz gab es dabei einige Höhen und Tiefen. Der Spielbetrieb bot genug Herausforderungen, klare Kante gegen jegliche Form der Diskriminierung zu bekennen. Neben dem Spielbetrieb engagierten sich Mitglieder und Sympathisant*innen bei Demos, Antifa-Turnieren, Vorträgen, Feiern und Konzerten.Zur

• On the situation of refugees in Como (I)

 

Info booths

• wir bleiben/ we stay (CH)

Unter dem Namen “Wir bleiben” kämpft ein loser Zusammenhang von Menschen für ein selbstbestimmtes Zusammenleben ohne Grenzen und Kategorisierungen.

• OAT Schopfheim (DE)
• AntiRep Gruppe Basel (CH)
• Black Pigeons Collective (CH)

Letter writing to Antifa prisoners

Solidarity must become practical! We regularly organize evenings where we write letters to prisoners around the world. We inform about recent cases of repression and we explain what to consider when writing. At the festival we will write to antifascist prisoners in Russia, Bulgaria, Sweden, and elsewhere.

 

 

Delicious vegan food provided by

• Schanze (CH)
• Kuzeb (CH)

 

 

Music

Shows

Friday

• Schwach (HC, DE)
• pogendroblem (Punk, DE)
• The Broots (Strange Reggae/Dirty Beat, CH)

Saturday

• Planet Earth Allstars Band (World/Jazz, CH)
• We Laugh (HC, DE)
• Work Life Balance (HC, DE)
• Partisans du Hip Hop (Genève, CH)
  • C.O.T.I (Rap, Ge)
  • Joe Pepsy & DJ Tiny Tim (74M)

 

DJs

Friday

• Oszilot (Post Punk/Wave/Synth, CH)

Saturday

• Kaostella (Bailefunk, BR)
• Getting Any? & acid waterfalls (CH)

 

 

Solidarity with Oleg

Statement of the ABC collective Moscow: The Russian antifascist and anarchist Oleg Serebrennikov needs your help and solidarity!

Anarchist Black Cross Moscow (ABC – Moscow) is calling for solidarity to help the anti-fascist and anarchist Oleg Serebrennikov. For more than ten years, Oleg has actively participated in the anarchist and anti-fascist movements in Russia and in Izhevsk.  He has worked with the ABC – Moscow collective, and has aided detainees and arrested anti-fascists and anarchists within Izhevsk, helping them look for lawyers; he has been very vocal concerning police and state repression against anti-fascists in the city; he has also actively participated in solidarity actions in support of imprisoned anti-fascists and social activists. Due to serious problems with his health which arose after an attack by Neo-Nazis on Oleg in 2004, he is in dire need of help.

Please share the story Oleg’s case within your communities, organize solidarity concerts and events, and/or even write a letter to him for support. Additionally, it is simple to transfer funds to his fund (see the bank accounts provided below)

Please read Oleg’s letter below, in which he, in detail, describes his situation

«Hello, my name is Oleg Serebrennikov. I’m 33 years old and I’ve been an anti-fascist and a socialist for more than 15 years. I am one of the few people who was at the origin of the anti-fascist movement in Izhevsk.

During all that time, the Nazis and the police have been preventing me from living a normal life; there were many attacks, threats and acts of intimidation from the neo-Nazis. In addition to those actions, the local police have been trying to initiate criminal proceedings etc.

Since 2001, I have actively participated in the anarchist and anti-fascist movement in Izhevsk and Russia. It consisted of the movement “Autonomous Action” (2005-12), and. for many years, I was a regional coordinator of Autonomous action-Izhevsk. I participated in many libertarian and anti-fascist meetings and conferences.

I was a member of the Russian Social Forum in 2005, I helped in organizing seminars on counter forum against the Group of Eight Summit in St. Petersburg, 2006. Between 2005-09, I organized and participated in the student union and the campaign against the privatization of education in Izhevsk. I was also actively involved in the meetings and social protests held in Izhevsk concerning the issues of housing and communal services, travel documents on public transport, point construction and other problems.

I was also actively involved in the anti-fascist struggle, carried out various anti-fascist street actions, cultural events, organized and conducted screenings of anti-fascist and socialist cinema in the student autonomous Cinema Club, blogged about Izhevsk and wrote articles about neo-Nazis in the local newspaper.

I also worked with Anarchist Black Cross Moscow, a group that has been the active online editor of the largest anarchist and anti-fascist site of the former USSR and avtonom.org

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On 23 February 2004, after a protest against the war in Chechnya, some Nazis attacked me and almost killed me. There were about 20-25 people, and it ended badly for me – I was taken to hospital and diagnosed a brain contusion with hemorrhage, craniocerebral injury and a number of other problems. Unfortunately, I have not received any adequate treatment at an early stage of the illness, so, a few years later my health condition started deteriorating dramatically.

In 10 years I started having a strong health deterioration. I almost can’t work because of my need for constant treatment. Twice a year I have to get treatment in various hospitals and clinics and, generally speaking, I feel that my condition is becoming much worse.

The treatment I need to get is very expensive (2000 euro per year) and, due to my lack of funds, I can only pay a small part of the treatment. Sometimes I’ve received financial support from Anarchist Black Cross, which was very important and helpful for me. But I am now in need of assistance, without which I cannot continue my treatment. I would be very grateful if you could help me somehow.

More details:

My name is Oleg Serebrennikov; I live in Izhevsk, Russia. I am an anti-fascist and human rights activist, and a writer on social affairs. I need help because I have serious health problems due to my having been engaged in human rights and anti-fascist work in my town.

I have advised social activists and ordinary citizens on their rights and freedoms violated by the police, organized workshops focusing on how they can interact with the police offices.  I also organized various street antifascist activities (demonstrations, public protests, rallies), as well as cultural events: an anti-fascist film club, and a a socialist cinema club at the University of Izhevsk, as well as different activities related to feminism, social and environmental issues.

As a journalist, I overviewed local right-wing organizations and groups, denouncing their crimes against the citizens. I also informed people about the illegal activities of such groups.

After having started my human rights activities, I faced a problematic situation with the representatives of Ministry of Internal Affairs and neo-Nazis groups.

On 23 February 2004 after a protest against the war in Chechnya, I was attacked by some 20 neo-Nazis armed with iron rods, canes and knives. I was severely beaten, received a serious head injury and spent several hours unconscious.

Then, after having spent more than 3 months in different hospitals, the problems related to my brain injury didn’t disappear. Some neo-Nazis who participated in the attack came to “visit” me in a hospital several times, threatening that they would kill me if I didn’t drop my investigations.

In the hospital I was diagnosed a severe brain contusion – a brain hemorrhage. One of the attackers was Jan Krasnovski – a grandson of the famous Soviet small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov (AK-47). His powerful relatives pressured the doctors and did everything they could to prevent me from receiving an appropriate treatment.

So, because of the poor quality of the initial treatment, my health problems became chronic. Over the past 10 years, I’ve been suffering terrible headaches, dizziness, disability of some brain functions (poor attention and memory, amnesia), weakness and fatigue. Such ordinary things like going shopping or walking are now tiresome and tedious for me. Due to the constant psychological pressure from the police and neo-Nazis (surveillance, telephone tapping, opening falsified criminal cases against me), I have severe depression.

For 10 years following the injury I’ve been treated 2-3 times a year in different hospitals and clinics of Izhevsk but my health is still seriously deteriorating. Due to the fact that I constantly have to be under treatment in hospitals and need medical care, I’m not able to have a permanent job and pay for the treatment.

 

http://www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/79352/

http://pl.maoism.ru/national/Izhevsk2004.htm

http://right.karelia.ru/rus/index.php…

https://sites.google.com/site/dpninfo/a-r-h-i-v

https://avtonom.org/…/olegu-nuzhna-pomoshch-obrashchenie-ac…

 

In 2007 I investigated the assassination of anti-fascist activist Stanislav Korepanov committed by neo-Nazis in Izhevsk in the spring of 2007.

http://tupikin.livejournal.com/218647.html?thread=2783767

http://www.newsru.com/crime/09nov2007/skins.html

I collected data and photos of Nazi attackers and then, with the help of lawyers, I passed this information to the investigating authorities. This data was used to arrest 2 people and aided in the prosecution of about 20 neo-Nazis. That was why the local neo-Nazis decided to call a group of their comrades from other cities to kill me. I was threatened over the phone and waited at my workplace. I reported the circumstances to the police, but they refused to deal with that. Therefore, I had to leave the city for a few months.

After that, there were some more intents to attack me, but I managed to defend myself.

In the last few years, there has been an increase in their activities: in 2010, a group of neo-Nazis tried to set fire to the apartment where my family and I live. They painted swastikas and the phrase “Oleg, you’re dead” in the entrance hall of my apartment. They also shot the window of my apartment and threw some burning object to the balcony. It was by chance that no one was hurt during that attack: I could smell the fire and called the fire department.

 

http://www.antifa.fm/4466.html

http://www.dayudm.ru/article/47594/

http://www.antifa.fm/…/izhevsk-nazi-burning-antifascist-fla…

http://www.antifa.fm/…/izhevsk-nazi-burning-antifascist-fla…

http://www.novayagazeta.ru/news/2019.html

http://tupikin.livejournal.com/497383.html

 

After that, I submitted a complaint to the police and asked for them to institute proceedings against the Nazis that were trying to set fire to my apartment. The case was initiated. I recognized that the arsonists were neo-Nazis, but the police didn’t handle it properly and no one was imprisoned. The police officers gave me a hint that they were not especially interested in the investigation of that case.

In the summer of 2011 a group of neo-Nazis threw stones at the windows of my apartment. I definitely recognized a group of local neo-Nazis, but the police didn’t initiate any proceeding.

On 15 October 2012 – a group of neo-Nazis once again threw stones to my window. The window was broken, but the police only came in 2 hours, although I called them immediately. I told the police officers that I saw the man who had thrown the stones, and that he was known as a neo-Nazi activist. However, the police again did nothing.

After that, the threats from neo-Nazis continued.  Since the neo-Nazis attack in 2004, I have had to be hospitalized 2 o 3 times a year. Unfortunately, my health is constantly deteriorating, so I’m almost not able to work.

Treatment is very expensive ( 2000 euros a year) and my means are only enough for a small part of the treatment. I am being helped byABC-Moscow, whose aid has been very important and useful to me.  But this help is not enough. I would be very grateful to you if you helped me with treatment.  If you want to ask any questions or anything to clarify, please write to e-mail avtonom46@gmail.com,  https://www.facebook.com/Volin.Oleg

Oleg Serebrennikov. »

 

Bank account details:

Bank account holder: Oleg Serebrennikov

Address of the account holder: 21 – Apt.124, 10 Let Oktyabrya Str., Izhevsk, 426011, Russia.

Account number: 40817978608040002069 (Euro)

 

Bank name and address: Alfa-Bank, 27 Kalanchevskaya Str, Moscow, 107078, Russian Federation

SWIFT: ALFARUMM

Correspondent Bank of Benificiary’s Bank:

COMMERZBANK AG, Franfurt am Main

 

SWIFT: COBADEFF

Acc. With corresp / Bank № 400886894501EUR

 

You can also transfer money for treatment via Paypal address Oleg avtonom46@gmail.com

 

Also you can make a money transfer for Serebrennikov of Oleg through bank and other accounts of the Anarchist Black Cross Moscow

Bank accounts (write please “donation for Serebrennikov Oleg” or “donation for Oleg”)

FOR EURO

Beneficiary bank: Alfa-Bank Moscow, Russia SWIFT code: ALFARUMM Beneficiary account number: № 40817978004230006660 Beneficiary full name: MIRYASOVA OLGA ALEKSANDROVNA

FOR DOLLARS

Beneficiary bank: Alfa-Bank Moscow, Russia SWIFT code: ALFARUMM Beneficiary account number: № 40817840204230006802 Beneficiary full name: MIRYASOVA OLGA ALEKSANDROVNA

You may donate to us to the following internet purse:

Yandex.Money Яндекс.Деньги 41001188576819 (system only works in Russian language, instructions in in http://money.yandex.ru/prepaid.xml)

Our Paypal is abc-msk@riseup.net

Please note that currently for our Paypal account, withdrawing in euro is free of cost, but in order to withdraw dollars, they must be converted to euros with internal exchange rate of paypal which means almost 10% losses – that is a lot of money and even Western Union may be more cheap.

 

 

Solidarity with Antifa Prisoners

Russian anarchist and antifascist prisoners

When mass civil protests in Russia were defeated in 2011-12 the Putinist police regime started open political repressions against militants of social and political movements, including anarchists and antifascists. Many activists have been sentenced to prison terms in the course of the last 5 years in Russia.

Please find below a  brief description of repressions to which Russian anarchists and antifascists are subjected.

Dmitry Buchenkov 

A well-known antifascist and anarchist Dmitry Buchenkov, PhD in political science, was arrested in Moscow in December 2015. He is suspected of participating in the riots of May 6, 2012. More than 400 persons were arrested as a result of a mass protest action against Putin’s politics that took place on May 6, 2012 in Moscow. Dmitry was not in Moscow on that day, he was in Nizhny Novgorod, more than 300 km away from Moscow.

Dmitry is a long-time participant of the antifascist and anarchist movements and he has done a lot for their development. Dmitry’s comrades and friends believe that the arrest is related to his political militancy and his active position regarding the developments taking place in the country.

Dmitry Buchenkov, 36, lecturer of history and political science, PhD in political science, associate professor, worked as Deputy Chairman of the Medicine History and Socio-Humanitarian Science Department in the Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I.Pirogov in Moscow. Prior to 2008 he worked as an associate professor of the Philosophy Department in the Volga State Pedagogy University (Nizhny Novgorod) for five years. He was fired for his political activism. Dmitry moved to Moscow after he had had to quit the Volga University.

In Moscow Dmitry joined the local cell of the Autonomous Action, whose member he had already been since 2002. This is how he describes the ideology he shares in a book entitled “Anarchists in the late XX century in Russia” published in 2009: «Basic worldview values of anarchism (self-management, self-organisation, anticapitalism) are still relevant today». In 2013 Dmitry quit the Autonomous Action organization, but he did not give up his political activism.

He authored several books on history and modern condition of anarchism in Russia. He is an activist of the antifascist and anarchist movements.

Dmitry actively participated in organising efforts and life of the antifascist and anarchist movements in Moscow. He organised many street antifascist protest actions, different cultural events. He took part in the establishment of an antifascist centre called «V project», where antifascists and anarchists held their gigs, meetings, and prepared their actions. Police and FSB more than once threatened to attack Dmitry physically for his political activities and struggles. In 2015 unknown persons, probably police or FSB agents, severely beat Dmitry up, so that he got brain concussion, was all covered in blood and couldn’t even remember how the assault occurred.

Dmitry Buchenkov planned to organise an all-Russian antifascist and anarchist forum “Self-management and Libertarian Communism” in early 2016. But the authoritarian Putinist regime police arrested him. 

Dmitry Buchenkov solidarity groups:

https://www.facebook.com/freebuchenkov/


https://vk.com/freebuchenkov  

Address: 125130, Moscow, 20 Vyborgskaya Str., SIZO “Vodnik”, Dmitry E. Buchenkov, (date of birth: 22 August 1978)/

Alexei Gaskarov 

A well-known antifascist and anarchist. An organiser and participant of many anarchist and left-wing conferences. He was arrested on 3 August 2010 on the Khmiki case after an administrative building in Khimki had been assaulted on 28 July 2010. An environmental protest action took place in Khimki against deforestation of big chunks of a reserve forest in order to build a toll road. On 15 October, 2010, the court decision on the arrest was recalled. On 24 June, 2011, he was legally acquitted by the Khimki municipal court.

He was strongly beaten by police on 6 May, 2012, at Bolotnaya square during a political opposition protest, so he filed a petition on riot police power abuses involving violence and riot control weapons.

On 28 April, 2013, he was apprehended and the following day arrested on accusation of leading a group of persons who actively participated in mass riots that supposedly took place at Bolotnaya square and of violence against a policeman. Later the accusation included two policemen supposedly attacked by Gaskarov: according to investigation data, Gaskarov grabbed a shoulder of an interior troops soldier and then he grabbed a leg of Igor Ibatulin, a riot police officer. The final version of the charge is also saying that he participated in mass riots at Bolotnaya square. On 18 August, 2014, the court sentenced Gaskarov to three and a half years in a general regime penal colony.

Many political activists relate Gaskarov’s imprisonment to a direct revenge from political police called the «Centre for Combating Extremism» for his long-time political activism. Gaskarov support website — gaskarov.info 

Addresses for letters: Gaskarov — 301654, Russia, Tula Oblast, Novomoskovsk, 27 Centralnaya Str., IK-6 UFSIN, detachment 5, Alexei V. Gaskarov, (Date of birth: 18/06/1985)  

Alexei Sutuga 

A well-known antifascist and anarchist from «Autonomous Action». Charged with hooliganism for supposedly beating up nationalists in a brawl. Sentenced to three years and one month of colony.

Sutuga was apprehended in April 2014 in Moscow by political police from the «Centre for Combating Extremism» after an antifa gig.  During interrogation he was asked about his trip to Maidan (Ukrainian protests in Kyiv in 2014). Alexei was accused of participation in a brawl on 2 January, 2014, in «Sbarro» bar, where he kicked and beat several persons with a chair and a selfmade hammer.

Sutuga himself said he tried to stop other people fighting — the brawl was between Neo-Nazis and some other youths. On October 1 Sutuga was sentenced to three years and one month of colony. On December 17 the appeal court left the sentence unchanged.

On 17 March, 2015, while in Irkutsk remand prison, from where he had to be transferred to a colony, Sutuga went on a dry hunger strike because he had been pressurised in the remand prison: he was offered to stay there instead of the colony, and when Sutuga had refused, they got hold of his letters and books. When the news on his hunger strike leaked outside the remand prison, he was transferred to the colony. The he stopped his hunger strike. In the colony Sutuga was subjected to a solitary confinement cell. He is constantly pressurised by the prison administration.

Address for letters: 665809 Irkutsk Oblast, Angarsk, First Industrial Cluster, quarter 47, building 6, IK No.2, Alexei V. Sutuga, born in 1986 (you can send him only 1^st class registered mail) or you can write via Rosuznik website  

 

Ilya Romanov 

On 6 August, 2015, a visiting board of the Moscow district military court passed a sentence upon Ilya Romanov, anarchist from Nizhny Novgorod – 10 years of high-security prison. The court ignored all arguments brought forward by defence. Afterwards the term was changed to 9 years of high-security prison.

Romanov was injured by a self-made firecracker’s explosion in October 2013, but they re-qualified him from an unfortunate experimenter to a “terrorist”. Apart from that firecracker an “interview” that he had given in December 2012 in a suburb of Donetsk was used in his case. Both “crimes” were incomplete: Ilya Romanov is accused of trying to menace local population and authorities of Nizhny Novgorod in order to save Kulibinsky park from tree-felling, but he didn’t manage because the device exploded during a test. He also supposedly tried to propagate terrorism through Ukrainian media, namely «Radio RKAS – Libertaire», but he didn’t manage to accomplish it either. It appears that it is not a radio station, rather an internet blog. The interview itself is just a Dictaphone record made at a party following his release from prison.

Romanov, whose family consists of retired parents and a teenage daughter is the poorest of all inmates. His family hardly manages to bring him parcels now and then, while Romanov also has to pay for a lawyer working on two supervisory complaints.

431130, Republic of Mordovia, Zubovo-Polyansky region, Lepley, FKU IK-22, Ilya E. Romanov. (Birthdate 3 July 1967)

Alexander Kolchenko

On 25 August, 2015, the military court in Rostov-upon-Don passed a cruel sentence against Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and Crimean antifascist Alexander Kolchenko. The investigation authorities called them “terrorists” — allegedly Sentzov guided by the «Right Sector» from Kyiv (banned in Russia) founded a “terrorist group” in Simpheropol that sought to bring Crimea back to Ukraine.

Kolchenko supposedly made part of the group. The “terrorists” set fire on the office doors of “Crimean Russian Community” and a window in the local office of the “United Russia” (the ruling party in Russia). During the court, Gennady Afanasiyev — one of key witnesses upon whose words the accusation was built — said that his testimony was either given under torture or simply invented. Afanasyev got 7 years in prison on the “Crimean terrorists” case. Oleg Sentzov was sentenced to 20 years and Alexander Kolchenko to10 years in prison for burning a door and a window.

Address for letters: 456612, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Kopeisk, 20 Kemerovskaya Str., IK-6, detachment 4, Alexander A. Kolchenko, born in 1989.

Anarchist Black Cross – Moscow Fund 

Money is needed to support our comrades in their labour camps and remand prisons. Anarchist Black Cross – Moscow calls on everyone to show solidarity, help, and if possible transfer this so much needed money to the Anarchist Black Cross – Moscow accounts. 

If you have any questions on how to make a money transfer or any other wishes, please write to  avtonom46@gmail.com and abc-msk@riseup.net 

Paypal-account: avtonom46@gmail.com and abc-msk@riseup.net

 

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