Pramen
Pramen is an anarcho-communist collective from Belarus. Created at the end of 2015, it claims to be an anarchist media and sets its goal as "to get the truth about happenings in Belarus over to the public and to serve the struggle of the society and the individual for their rights, for liberation for everyone."[1]
Most of the collective’s resources were officially admitted by the Belarusian state as "extremist" and access to those resources is now legally restricted in Belarus.
Organization
The exact size of the organization is unknown. Given the number of alleged supporters of the group (people taking the actions, later published on the Pramen website, those holding banners with Pramen.io website[2][3] one can assume the number varies from 3 to 40 members. No official numbers were presented by the collective or state apparatus. The organization is not officially registered in any country of the world.
Ideology
Pramen poses itself as an "a social-revolutionary anarchist group", which aims "to build an anarchist society". The group also considers itself part of the international anarchist movement.[4]
Activity
The collective writes on a regular basis about topics connected with Belarusian reality from the anarchist perspective. Apart from that, the collective distributes different printed texts on anarchism for free. Some of the collective’s texts were banned in the country for their extremist content.
The group usually does not take responsibility for any street actions, publishing the actions of other anarchist groups and activists with a foreword "received by email". At the same time, the group takes responsibility for issuing the brochures and stickers, which are later distributed freely among anarchist sympathizers all around Belarus.
Also, Pramen plays a role as an anti-repression and human rights defending group within the anarchist movement, sometimes being the first to report to the media and human rights defenders about the repressions against the anarchist movement.[5][6]
Since 2019, the collective has been hosting an archive of the Belarusian Indymedia project that was closed several years before that. An archive of music from an older anarchist project 375crew is also hosted on Pramen.
Censorship
The group’s media sources experience persistent censorship from the Belarusian authorities. The website and the social media pages of the group were included in the so-called "Republican list of extremist materials", which allows the state to restrict access to certain resources (more precisely, the website and the Vkontatke page) on the territory of Belarus.[7]
Citations
- ↑ "Pramen". Прамень. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Euroradio.fm". Euroradio. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Svoboda Radio Station". Svoboda Radio Station. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Pramen". Pramen. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Radio Svaboda". Radio Svaboda. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "21.by". Стартовая страница Беларуси. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "List of extremist materials". Unknown parameter
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