There is a justifiable need to abolish the borders between nations, societies, cultures and whatever else seperates and defines us. In order that the process of their abolition does not lead to the formation of new borders or other types of segregation it has to be done from below, by the people not by elitist institutions such as The European Union, NATO or United Nations.

There is an enduring need to instantly abolish all states, governments and authoritarian institutions so that communities based on common values such as freedom, respect, collaboration and solidarity can be formed. These communities in turn can lead to the transformation of the world order into one based on the above mentioned values. In an attempt to push forward both of these goals with support for developement from the anarchist movement above the borders we have created ...

ABOLISHING THE BORDERS FROM BELOW

There are many reasons why it is necessary to put out this type of publication on a regular basis. There are a large number of anarchist groups in Eastern Europe who could operate much more effectivly with a continual exchange of ideas, tactics, experiences and materials with similarly minded groups from all over Europe and the World. It is clear that many western activists are also interested in the ideas and actions of the "eastern anarchists". We believe it to be necessary to tighten the collaboration between east and west in resisting Fortress Europe, the globalization of the world economy, and above all capitalism and it's effects on our life. A mutual exchange of inspirations, motivations, and cooperation from anarchist communities all over Europe is needed on a day to day basis not only in times of international protests like the ones in Prague, Gothenburg and Genua. The intent of this paper is to set up a better network of communication between groups and individuals from different parts of this continent. The process of creating an editorian team for "AbolishingBB" was a great step toward this so we appeal to everyone to make the most of the information here as effectivly as possible.

AN ANARCHIST COURIER

“AbolishingBB” is a bi-monthly bulletin with information on different political and cultural anarchist/anti-authoritarian activities in Eastern Europe.

OTHER SOURCS OF INFO

These are: “alterEE” east-european-anarchists internet discussion list, “Warhead” - internet info service of @-activities in Poland, ABC/Poland - info bulletin, “Avtonom” russian magazine of Autonomous Action Network, Russian indymedia; KOLOKOL newsletter “AACTIV-ist Newsletter” from Romania.

CO-OPERATION

If you operate in Eastern Europe you can send to us info about protests, manifestations and other actions going on in your region ... you can present activities of groups, collectives and projects working in your neighbourhood ... you can inform us about up-comming political and cultural events
... you can present statements of your group on local or global issues, you can express your ideas, opinions or criticism ... everything from anarchist perspective. You can join our redaction collective as a corespondent sending regular reports covering different forms of activities in your
region.

Please texts send to:
abolishingbb(A)riseup.net

Please send your graphics/photos only to:
abolishingBBphotos(A)hotmail.com

If you operate in other parts of the world you can help with distribution. You can spread information about this publication or just make the most of the information here as effectivly as possible.

DISTRIBUTION
(see extra chapter for more info about distribution)

We are looking for people/collectives ready to distribute this publication on a regular basis in their regions (especialy in southern Europe). Previous issues are as well available.

Contact for distribution:
wielkowitsch(A)hotmail.com

FREE COPIES & PRINT-RUN

Free copies go to all info-shops and libertarian librarys in Eastern Europe (which get in touch with us) as well as to our corespondents who supply a postal adresses. At the moment we print by ourselves 1200 copies of each issue, and there are some local groups which make more copies by themselves after our agreement on that.

FINANCIAL SIDE

Unfortunately until now we are not able to cover our editorial costs with only through selling the newspaper so the money for printing is collected as well through our breakfest-benefits performed regulary in autonomous center “KÖPI” (Berlin) as well as through our pizza-circus, and benefits from outside.

OUR BAD ENGLISH REPUTATION

As you probably noticed the english which is used in this newspaper is very far from its gramatical and stylistic ideals. It is mostly because this is a level of english which most of our corespondents, big part of our readers and most of us (as editors) are using. So at first, we obviously prefare to communicate on this level of english which is understandable for ourslves (!) and secondly, we decided to be rather “bad english reputation” newspaper as to rise a level of language and this way eliminate probably 30-60% of our regular readers, especialy in south and eastern Europe (which could not understand the texts anymore).