Poetry and music against prisons.
In October 2023, from Terni prison, Juan Sorroche, an anarchist comrade of andalusian origin, launched an international call for poetic verse:
Haiku senza HAIKU
„In a world that increasingly needs cages and fences to enclose every form of life, we would like to no longer divide our paths of struggle for liberation: to integrate intimate, existential, individual transformation with that of overthrowing every form of exploitation, oppression, or privilege. They are, in fact, two sides of the same moon: we wish to observe our limits in all relationships, the fears that come from the ego, the inability to direct our anger to destroy, within and without, the chains that come from the dominant cultures of the present and the past.
We no longer want to reproduce the old authoritarian roles or the old master-slave dichotomies; we yearn for the dismantling of every coercive material or cultural structure: capitalism, racism, sexism, gender binarism, patriarchy and anthropocentrism.“
In the following months, we received numerous contributions published in the collection „Haiku Without Haiku.“