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22.01.2022 Hi all, I have been charged with "incitement" and police have seized my phone and all my computers (including my 15 year old son's computer). My court date is A...ugust 6. The charge of "incite" is not part of the new health regulations, it is a straight out anti-protest law from 1958. I am proud to be inciting support for refugees, our protest was safe detention is not. I and the wider refugee movement will not be intimidated and will not stop acting in solidarity with refugees. This obviously has much wider implications for the unions and social movements (a United Workers Union convoy of 30 cars was not treated in the same way on Thursday, despite a police presence - and more union protests will be vital in the weeks and months ahead). We cannot be complacent that things will bounce back to normal in a few months, they won't - we are in a deep economic crisis, together with a prolonged health crisis. We will need safe ways to publicly protest. Health rules around coronavirus can't be used to stamp out the right to protest. There will be a defence campaign organised, for myself and everyone who was fined, I'm told refugee supporters collectively have $40,000 in fines. The hypocrisy is staggering, people can drive to Bunnings, or JB-Hi Fi, or to get a hair cut, and in Victoria it is still legal to drive to a holiday home, but we cant drive around the block highlight the lack of safety for vulnerable refugees with underlying health conditions. The most odious hypocrisy is with the unsafe conditions in detention themselves. Premier Daniel Andrews has had not one word to say about the conditions for refugees in Scott Morrison's detention centres, which are the equivalent of cruise ships on land - a health risk for refugees and for all of us. The police came to my house around 12 noon, so I did not even get to attend the protest (pic of my decorated car is below). I spent 9 hours in a police cell from around 12 noon, I had nothing to eat or drink since 9 am that morning. I was offered water by police, but I didn't want to eat or drink anything in the station because police themselves completely disregarded social distancing measures, and I could not trust their hygiene. I had to sit in close proximity with three police for half an hr in a police car waiting to get into the station. Then I sat in a car in close proximity with three different officers as they drove me to my house to raid it. In my house there were six police in total none of whom practiced social distancing (staying 1.5m away) either with myself or with each other. Solidarity with the refugees in the Mantra, in MITA, in Kangaroo Point, in Villawood, in Yongah Hill and all across Australia, solidarity with those still held in PNG and Nauru after almost 7 years. Solidarity with every refugee supporter who was fined yesterday. Solidarity too with the people of Wuhan, New York, Lombardi and the passengers and crew of the Ruby Princess. Its not car convoys which are killing people, but the lack of testing, contact tracing, PPE, ventilators, and health care, because profit is put before lives. Yet again politics is also being put before refugees lives. Their lives matter as much as ours. I will not stay silent, the refugee movement will not stay silent, we will not cease our protests until the camps are closed and every refugee is free. The struggle continues. Chris Breen ps I have a new temporary number 0492 910 302, bear with me if I don't respond to messages straight away, I have a temporary fiddly broken phone (but thanks so much to the person who donated it!), I will get a new one shortly.

22.01.2022 At the 'Change the Rules' rally in Melbourne today.

22.01.2022 On this day in 1986, the ASF was founded at a meeting at Jura Books, 417 King St., Newtown by former members of the Rebel Worker Group, Melbourne Anarcho-Syndicalist Group as well as Bulgarian and Spanish anarchist exiles. Today, 27 January marks the 34th Anniversary of ASF-IWA

20.01.2022 SNAP PROTEST AGAINST UNFAIR DISMISSAL ASF Melbourne North is holding a snap protest at Bunnings in Caroline Springs against the unfair dismissal of a member. Bunnings are prepared to intimidate its workers who advocate for joining unions other than the SDA. Ivan was sacked on the spot for present at a breach of safety guidelines committed by a forklift driver on a last day of work. This selective use of safety guidelines is used by management to intimidate workers.... Please come and support if you can. Where: 1067- 1125 Western Highway Caroline Springs VIC 3023 When: 10am Saturday 21 December

19.01.2022 The IWA Congress will decide upon the applications of BASF (Bangladesh), MEM/LSF (India), OLS (Sweden) and PPAS (indonesia) to be sections of the IWA. Workers of the world, come together, fight back! We carry a new world right here in our hearts!

17.01.2022 ASF Melbourne protest at Bunnings Warehouse in Caroline Springs against the unfair dismissal and wage theft of a member. This campiagn is ongoing. https://www.facebook.com/1000103341678//1008560836165046/

16.01.2022 1 May is May Day

10.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/2645257358833236/

04.01.2022 Socially distanced May Day!

01.01.2022 VALE JORGE GARCIA 1953-2020 It is with deep sadness that ASF Melbourne North announces the passing of Comrade Jorge Garcia. Jorge arrived in Melbourne in 1974 seeking to escape conscription into the Spanish Army. At the time he had no idea that his parents were members of the CNT (interior) and did not discover the truth until the death of Franco, fascist dictator of Spain. Jorge was a founding member of the Melbourne Anarcho-Syndicalist Group 1983-85. This organisation was a... distributor of anarcho-syndicalist texts and conducted monthly reading group meetings. Jorge Garcia spent a short time in Japan and was instrumental in founding the RRU (then Japanese section of the IWA) and was a member of ASF Melbourne North 1997-2001 before returning to his native Terrassa in Spain. He will always be remembered for his enormous contribution to anarcho-syndicalism in Australia. COMRADE! YOU ARE NOW GONE, BUT YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN!