PRIDE FOR FREE PALESTINE
pride is inherently queer. born as a riot, it is rooted in anticapitalist, antifascist and antimilitarist values of community and care. the first pride was an anti-police riot and it succeeded where peaceful protests previously failed.
we queers march against exploitation, scapegoating, instrumentalisation, colonialism, genocide and war, against imprisonment and borders, the slaughter of our bodies, and the destruction of land. we march for our rights of bodily autonomy, for transformative justice and for gender liberation.
to be queer is to be anticapitalist. pride does not belongs to any organisation, corporation, institution, or political party. it is not for the government to allow or for the police to protect. rainbow capitalism is a trap that tames us, makes us docile, offering a counterfit liberation through marketing and representation. we cannot depend on dirty capitalist money, while our “liberation” is supported only as long as it can be sold back to us. not when we are thrown under the bus, vilified and ostricised as soon as the political wind shifts. pride was never meant to be a sponsored celebration; it began with the first brick thrown in the face of the oppressor.
to be queer is to be anti-establishment and anti-liberalist. pride does not grow from befriending those in power: the decision-makers, shareholders, property barons and mayors. we cannot link arms with the police, the government or capital. we reject the politicians who “grant us space” while they raze autonomous zones, gentrify our cities and fraternise whith autocrats who use military weapons to stop students and civilians from protesting to demand freedom for all. “granting space” is not a thing when space itself is being violently taken away. space has to be taken back by the community – horizontally and from the bottom up.
to be queer is to be antimilitarist. there can be no queer liberation in the west while colonial forces keep killing and exploiting our sisters across the globe, while our siblings are dying at the borders of fortress europe seeking safety and others are imprisoned for fighting this regimes of oppression. as fascism rises again, we queers stand on the frontlines – against borders that kill people fleeing stolen land, against wars and ecological devestation manufactured by colonialism and capitalism. while they try to convice us that all this is done in the name of “our safety”, we anwser: “european safety” does not justify fences and wars. our liberation can not pinkwash occupation, land grabs or genocide. and there is no queer liberation on stolen land soaked in blood.
to be queer is to be antifascist. pride was forged in resistance to police – in opposition to institutional and state violence against queer and non-white communities. it was a riot to defend the autonomy of our bodies and our spaces. stonewall is not a relic; stonewall is happening here and now. with fascism resurgent – our communities painted as internal enemies, trans people scapegoated, our lives instrumentalised for political gain – stonewall reminds us that we have fought for the right to exist before, and we will defend that right again.
we invite you to join the anarcha-queer-feminist resistance for the following actions as part of the PRIDE FOR FREE PALESTINE in Ljubljana:
7.6. CALLING FOR ATTENDANCE AT MARIBOR PRIDE
15:00 at trg svobode
let’s the streets of maribor that we are not afraid.
13.6. PROTEST IN MEMORY OF SARA HIGAZY
at 11:00 in front of egyptian embassy
in solidarity with the imprisoned free palestine activists in egypt and against the military dictator regime that enables the genocide in gaza and the u.s. imperial affairs in the region.
14.6. PRIDE FOR FREE PALESTINE BLOC AT LJUBLJANA PRIDE
at 17:00 on metelkova
join the parade under palestinian and anarcha-queer flags. dress-code: colorful queer creatures.
24.6. PROTEST AGAINST ARMING, WAR AND NATO
at 17.00 at congress square
no to nato, no to war, poverty and imperialism!
28.6. FIRST PRIDE WAS A RIOT
at 21.00 at ambrožev trg
anti-capitalist, anti-facsist and anti-militarist rally for pride against all wars and genocides.
QUEERS AGAINST CAPITALISM, FASCISM AND WAR
PRAJD ZA SVOBODNO PALESTINO
prajd je po svoji naravi kvirovski. rojen kot upor je zakoreninjen v antikapitalističnih, antifašističnih in antimilitarističnih vrednotah skupnosti in vzajemne skrbi. prvi prajd je bil upor proti policiji in kot tak je uspel tam, kjer je mirnim protestom prej spodletelo.
kviri korakamo proti izkoriščanju, iskanju grešnih kozlov, instrumentalizaciji, kolonializmu, genocidu in vojni, proti zapiranju in mejam, klanju naših teles in uničevanju zemlje. korakamo za naše pravice do telesne avtonomije, za transformativno pravičnost in za uničenje binarnosti spola.
kvir pomeni antikapitalizem. prajd ne pripada nobeni organizaciji, korporaciji, instituciji ali politični stranki. ne potrebuje vlade, da ga dovoli, niti policije, da ga ščiti. mavrični kapitalizem je past, ki nas ukroti, naredi pokorne in ponudi ponarejeno osvoboditev skozi trženje in reprezentacijo. ne smemo se zanašati na umazan denar kapitalizma, medtem ko je naša “osvoboditev” podprta le, dokler nam je lahko prodana nazaj. ne takrat, ko smo poteptanx, obrekovanx in izključenx, takoj ko politični veter zapiha v drugo smer. prajd nikoli ni bil sponzorirana zabava; začel ga je prvi kamen, vržen v obraz zatiralx.
kvir pomeni nasprotovati uveljavljenemu redu in liberalizmu. prajd ne prijateljuje z oblastjo – z odločevalx, delničarx, lastnix in županx. ne sklepa rok s policijo, vlado ali kapitalom. zavrača politix, ki nam “dajejo prostor”, medtem ko uničujejo avtonomne prostore, gentrificirajo naša mesta in se družijo z avtoritarci, ki z vojaškim orožjem zatirajo študentx, ki protestirajo za svobodo. “dajanje prostora” ni mogoče, ko je prostor sam po sebi nasilno odvzet. skupnost si mora prostor vzeti sama – horizontalno in od spodaj navzgor.
kvir pomeni antimilitarizem. kvirovska osvoboditev na zahodu ni mogoča, medtem ko kolonialne sile ubijajo in izkoriščajo naše sestre_brate po vsem svetu, medtem ko tx umirajo na mejah trdnjave evrope v iskanju varnosti, drugx pa so zaprtx zaradi boja proti tem istim režimom zatiranja. ko je fašizem v porastu, kviri stojimo v prvih vrstah boja – proti mejam, ki ubijajo ljudi, ki bežijo z ukradene zemlje, proti vojnam in ekološkemu uničenju, ki sta jih povzročila kolonializem in kapitalizem. na prepričevanje, da je vse to v imenu “naše varnosti”, odgovarjamo: “evropska varnost” ne upravičuje ograj in vojn. naša osvoboditev ne more oprati rok okupaciji, kraji zemlje ali genocidu. kvirovska osvoboditev se ne zgodi na ukradeni zemlji, prepojeni s krvjo.
kvir pomeni antifašizem. prajd je vzniknil kot odpor proti policiji – odziv proti institucionalnemu in državnemu nasilju nad kvirovskimi in ne-belimi skupnostmi. bil je upor za obrambo avtonomije naših teles in naših prostorov. stonewall ni le zgodovina; stonewall se dogaja tukaj in zdaj. ko fašizem ponovno ponosno dviga svojo glavo, ko so naše skupnosti označene kot notranjx sovražnix, ko so trans osebe grešnx kozlx, ko so naša življenja instrumentalizirana za politično korist – nas stonewall spominja, da smo se za pravico do obstoja že borilx in branilx jo bomo ponovno.
vabimo, da se pridružite anarho-kvir-feminističnemu odporu pri naslednjih akcijah v okviru PRAJD ZA SVOBODNO PALESTINO v ljubljani:
7.6. POZIV ZA UDELEŽBO NA PARADI PONOSA V MARIBOR
ob 15:00 na trgu svobode
pokažimo mariborskim ulicam, da nas ni strah!
13.6. PROTEST V SPOMIN NA SARO HIGAZY
ob 11:00 pred egiptovsko ambasado
v solidarnosti z zaprtimi aktivistx za svobodno palestino v egiptu ter proti vojaškemu diktatorskemu režimu, ki omogoča genocid v gazi, in ameriškemu imperializmu v regiji.
14.6. PRIDE FOR FREE PALESTINE BLOK na Ljubljana prajdu
ob 17:00 na metelkovi
paradi se bomo pridružilx pod palestinskimi in anarcha-queer zastavami. dress-code: colorful queer creatures.
24.6. PROTEST PROTI OBOROŽEVANJU, VOJNI IN ZVEZI NATO
ob 17.00 na kongresnem trgu
ne natu, ne vojni, revščini in imperializmu!
28.6. PRAJD JE UPOR
ob 21.00 na ambroževem trgu
shod za antikapitalistični, antifašistični in antimilitaristični prajd proti vsem vojnam in genocidom.
KVIRI PROTI KAPITALIZMU, FAŠIZMU IN VOJNI