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Call for Poetry from the Prisons and from the Streets We want to share this new call for poetry, Haiku without Haiku, for free, unchained verse, born as a continuation of Haiku without Haiku (2023). The new collection will be titled, “Raices y Radicalidad” (Roots and Radicality) and was launched by the compañeros Juan Sorroche, prisoner in Terri (territory of so-called Italy), and Miguel Peralta, who currently is fleeing persecution from the Mexican State in some part of the world. Roots and Radicality seeks to create a space of encounter, convergence, and expression for those who “confront, resist, and struggle daily against power” in different territories. Therefore, we invite you all to contribute verses, thoughts, feelings, and words to this collection. We welcome contributions in whatever language, including indigenous languages, those languages that resist and flourish in spite of the imposition of colonial languages, as well as any form of free expression. This is a call to never stop dreaming, imagining, and creating infinite new worlds! raicesyradicalidad@canaglie.net Since colonization, the pueblos have developed different forms of survival and resistance against capital and the ways in which it has plundered their territories: mining for gold, extracting rare earth minerals, megaprojects, the grand deception of green capitalism, and war. As capital intensifies its exploitation and colonial imperialism, the struggle and resistance of the pueblos in defense of their territories must be strengthened everywhere, even amidst attempts to repress and exterminate them. In our everyday life, through digital hyperconnectivity, we have normalized the reception of information almost in real time from across the world. We have also normalized the idea that to give a “like” means that we are part of some struggle. This phenomenon is limiting action, it is causing the disappearance of different practices which have always pertained to the pueblos and individuals, and it is disappearing spaces for self-defense and action. With this call, we want to create a space of convergence of internationalist solidarity, to share how we feel, and to get a deeper understanding of struggles in the global south from an anticolonial perspective. We want to unlearn, show solidarity, and liberate ourselves. We call on the communities in resistance, collectives, individuals, imprisoned people, fugitives, comrades on the run, migrants with and without documents, sexual dissidents, sex worker collectives, searching mothers, autonomies and self-defense groups, occupied spaces, prisoner support collectives, creators and dissident artists, and all those who resist daily and attack power. We invite you all to contribute with verses, thoughts, feelings, and words to this collection we have named, Roots and Radicality. Roots and Radicality because the roots represent the origin, the collective memory, that is being passed on through the passage of time, influencing the formation of identity and sense of belonging. That is to say, the way in which individuals recognize and understand each other. At the same time, the territory is where the roots live, developing and expressing themselves through different political and sociocultural practices. So, the radicality is the deep return to the origin, it is like a root that moves through the dirt in search of water, digging deep to connect with memory and territory, seeing clearly what we are and where we come from. It is a form of existing that doesn’t stop at the surface, but that seeks the depths where ideas, identities, and changes are born. We invite everyone to contribute to this collection of words finally free, incendiary syllables, haikus without haikus, and verses released from the logic of meter, thrown without control toward infinity, free from ownership and commodification. The collected writings will be published in print, in a self-published manner, and will be read in self-organized activities and disseminated amongst those interested and “free.” This includes those who are imprisoned, in psychiatric institutions or migrant detention centers, but also those confined in schools, factories, barrios, and fields, but who still feel free and don’t believe in the illusion that this ecocidal society can continue. Raices y Radicalidad C/O Infoladen Schererstr 8 13347 Berlin Roots and Radicality was born from written dialogue between Juan Sorroche, compañero imprisoned in May 2019 after more than two years on the run, currently being held in a prison in Italy, and Miguel Peralta, anarchist from the community of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, imprisoned for almost five years in Mexican prisons, and now wondering somewhere in the world, with a legal process still open against him. To send your Haiku without Haiku write to: raicesyradicalidad@canaglie.net #Poetry #PoetryAgainstPrisons #Abolition #AnarchistPrisoner #AnarchistSolidarity