Pramen
Pramen is an anarcho-communist collective from Belarus. Created in the end of 2015, it claims to be an anarchist media and sets its goal as "to get the truth about happening 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 resources of the collective were officially admitted by the belarusian state as "extremist" and access to those resources is now legally restricted in Belarus.
Organization[edit]
The exact size of the organization is unknown. Given the number of the 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 collective or state apparatus. Organization is not officially registered in any country of the world.
Ideology[edit]
Pramen poses itself as an "a social-revolutionary anarchist group", which aims "to build an anarchist society". The group also considers itself as a the part of the international anarchist movement.[4]
Activity[edit]
Collective writes on regular basis about the topics connected with belarusian reality from the anarchist perspective. Apart from that collective distributes different printed texts on anarchism for free. Some of the texts of the collective were banned in the country for their extremist content.
The group usually does not takes responsibility for any streets actions, publishing the actions of other anarchists groups and activists with a foreword "received by an email" . In the same time, the group takes responsibility for issuing the brochures and stickers, which are later on distributed freely among the anarchist sympathizers all around Belarus.
Also Pramen plays a role of a anti-repression and human right defending group within the anarchist movement, sometimes being the first who reports to the media and the human right defenders about the repressions against the anarchist movement.[5][6]
Since 2019 collective is hosting archive of belarusian Indymedia project that was closed several years before that. Archive of music from an older anarchist project 375crew is also hosted on Pramen.
Censorship[edit]
The media sources of the group experiences persistent censorship from the Belarusian authorities. The website and the social media pages of the group were included in so-called "Republican list of the extremist materials", which allows the state to restrict the access to certain resources (more precisely, the website and the Vkontatke page) on a territory of Belarus.[7]
Citations[edit]
- ↑ "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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