to our friends,
today we present you the fourth part of the report of our anarchist comrades from hamburg about their work.
the text was written in german, you can find the german version below.
solidarity will win
Przemyśl (Anarchist Solidarity – Part 4)
Wo couldn`t go to Krakow anymore (for more information read „Anarchist Solidarity – Part 3“) and we weren`t able to find reliable structures in Warsaw that would take care of business locally. The people that supported us in Krakow went to PrzemyĹ›l, a town at the border to Ukraine to organize everything there. In a car with nine seats and the trunk full of first aid material to take care of war wounds and other stuff we drove there. It was our first time bringing stuff to Poland. Wo could see how this shitty war is escalating because of the orders that were reaching us. In the beginning bulletproof wests and first aid kits were in demand. Now smoke grenade pouches, Celox, Rangefinder, Combat boots sz.45. (“very important, fighter had shrapnel injury in past years”), Tourniquetes and many more. You have no idea what any of these are? Me neither up until this point. I had to google everything: Smoke grenade pouches are bags for smoke grenades, Celox is a hemostyptic to stop the bleeding of wounds that can’t be stopped by a compression bandage or by a tourniquet, Ragefinder are, according to very weird military websites, “the ideal device for hunters, sport marksman and bow and arrow shooters.”, tourniquets are a “ system to completely stop the bloodflow in veins and arteries. It is after the compression bandage the next best way to stop the bleeding of especially multiply penetrating injuries. I said to my wife: ”I would have never thought that I`d have to provide tourniquets.” She just answered: “Be glad you don`t have to buy those for us yet.”
For our next approaches we followed the usual anarchist four-step schedule: 1. Seeing the problem, 2. procure money, 3. Organise, 4. Action.
After we had a brief idea of what was on the list, we looked into our savings box. We had devided our soli-savings into two funds (like Operation Solidarity later did aswell): One only for medical supplies and the other for the support of anarchist comrads in Ukraine and Hamburg plus tactical supplies. Our savings allowed us to buy at least some of the stuff in need (by far not everything, it`s so expensive!). So, on to the third step, the organisation. To make it short: We learned about a store of that we`d never heard before, in an area we didn`t know of and which had workers of whom we didn`t want to know the freetime activities. But they had many items of our list and apparently we weren’t the first ones to buy supplies for comrads in Ukraine.
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