Memories of Anna, by a friend and comrade from the Empty Cages Collective

Kurdistan Solidarity Network

I came across Anna for the first time in 2013 at a Stop G8 meeting. The G8 had come and gone and I travelled to the Cowley Club in Brighton to ask this group if they were up for organising against the NATO Summit which was in Newport, South Wales the following year.

I remember when we were discussing outreach work in preparation of the summit, Anna and her partner T, spoke about the squat they had opened to the public in Lewes. She told us about how this squat was welcoming to all and offered tea and cake. At that time most squats I had been to had a bit of an exclusive and macho anarchist energy. Their project seemed to radiate radical anarcha-feminist energy and was something different.

One thing that struck me was how rad she seemed, and her partner come to that. I hadn’t seen many…

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