The police is now traveling between teen social centers with an image and propaganda campaign following the criticism the police has received relating to the protests that toppled the government. Aftaka is covering the story and you can read our first coverage by clicking here. We now continue and this time we contacted a staff member of one of the social centers in Kópavogur (a town close to Reykjavík) and asked for answers to a few questions regarding the case.

The police is now traveling between teen social center´s and is stuffing children with propaganda. The issue is protests, pepper spray, police brutality and the “extremely dangerous” anarchists.

After the protests which led to the collapse of the Icelandic government now in January, the police has received harsh criticism for violence. Those voices come from all directions of the Icelandic society. A lot of media people where sprayed with pepper spray for just being present and taking photographs of the events. At this moment the press association is working on these cases. Many pictures have been released proving the critics case and people who received the brunt of the police violence have been interviewed.

A letter from Icelandic anarchists who have taken part in the revolt against the recently collapsed government.

The Icelandic Government has collapsed and some people talk about a revolution. In a way it is true. Ordinary people overthrew this neoliberal government by writing articles, holding speeches, noise demonstrations, bonfires, car horns, direct action, civil disobedience and minor sabotage. A nation that before had hardly put up any
resistance to abuse of power for a long time, finally stood up and said: “No thanks! No more shit!”

On December 31st, we witnessed a unique action here in Iceland. Obviously it was not the all time climax in the history of Icelandic resistance compared e.g. to the 1949 riot, when Iceland joined NATO and people put up heavy resistance in Reykjavík. But first and all, it was a symbol for the waking up which is taking place in the Icelandic society – society that before was completely apathetic. And the action worked out perfectly in that we managed to do what we wanted, to disrupt and stop the TV transmission.

Before you read this article you might want to check out another article to read about what has been happening in Iceland before. Click here to check it out.

Since early this winter, Iceland has been facing economic crisis. The three major business banks have been nationalized, putting their dept on the people’s shoulders. People have been losing their livelong savings, loans have increased and are getting sky high (and for sure they already were high enough). 200 people lost their job, every single day of November and more and more people are facing the threat of losing their houses.

Cześć. (Part number 1 is here)

We are all Polish in the Republic of Dominos, even the minority who talk a quaint dialect called Icelandic.

“Where are you from?”

“pO’land.” with a soft entry p, a high round ‘of course’ sound on the O and and a shrug of the mouth shoulders on the land like ‘did you expect a different answer?’ By far the most common response.

Only a few answer differently:

Aftaka asked me to go undercover. To get inside one of Iceland’s major occupying corporations and write. I nodded and found myself biting my tongue on the edge of a massive table in a Powerpoint training session.

When people think of soda, they think Coca Cola; when they think of cereal, Kellogg’s; but when they think of pizza, one word, my word, my faceless name standing on their doorstep with a great big grin should oozingly manifest: Dominos Pizza.