Jul 9, 2017
Nashville Anti Racist Action about the upcoming American Renaissance Conference in Burns, Tennessee from July 28th to 30th, 2017. AmRen, as it's called, is a yearly conference that sprange from Jared Taylor's suit and tie nazi thinktank journal by the same title and is being held on state land in Tennessee and anti-racists plan to make the "white identitarians" uncomfortable to say the least. For the hour we talk about anti-racist organizing in the South, about the upcoming "Unite The Right" convergence in Charlottesville, Virginia and more. Here's the fedbook page for Nashville ARA, and here's another state-wide coalition in Tennessee, TARN.
As an aside, big ups to the crowds that overwhelmed the KKK in
Charlottesville on July 8th. The Klan had to be escorted by
State Police to even escape the throngs of
counter-demonstrators. NPR reports 50 Klan showed up, over
1,000 counter protesters and 23 anti-racists arrested, other
reports include word of police brutalizations and felony
charges. Here's a fundraising page for those
arrested.
One resource we would like to point folks to if they're seeking to
get involved with anti-racist and antifa groups over the internet,
considering the honeypot and disinformation tactics being taken by
the far right is Antifa checker, which vets
social media sites for antifa and ARA groups and has social media
presences on twitter, facebook and more.
Here's an article about last year's AmRen with a history of Jared Taylor and other organizers behind NPI, AmRen, Paleo-Conservatism, "Racial Realism," "Identitarianism," "Racialist," Sam Dickson and more buncombe.
Announces
Interview w/ Your Hosts at
It's Going Down
If you wanna learn more about your hosts, get a blow by blow of the
anarchist radio conference that happened in Greece earlier this
year, and hear some A++ trolling, you can hear an interview that we did with members of the anarchist,
anti-authoritarian news platform It's Going Down! Tell us what you
think by writing to us an email!
Dane Powell sentencing and
J20 Solidarity
As many of you have probably heard already, the first of the J20
defendants was sentenced recently to 4 months of a 36 month
sentence followed by 2 years of supervised probation. From a
fundraising support statement: "Dane Powell is a father, veteran,
water protector, and active community member, but will now forever
be known as the first political prisoner of the Trump era." He is
famous for pulling children and elderly folks out of the range of
police chemical weapons on January 20th, and was arrested and held
for days in DC lockup after having been profiled and dragged from a
car on the 21st. You can read and listen to a fabulous interview
that he did with the Bloc Party on It's Going Down,
in which he talks about his reasons for taking a non cooperating
plea deal and how he has been talking about all of this with his
children, among many other topics. The interview links to other
support sites and articles by co-defendants. You can also see
detailed reporting on his sentencing, along with helpful context,
on Unicorn Riot.
Dane Powell has been sentenced, but his address is yet to be
released. Once it is available, we will point folks to that
information because the importance of getting mail while in prison
cannot be overstated. If you would like to donate to his support
fund, which will go to his commissary and support for his family
while he's inside, you can visit his fundraising support site
here.
This also seems like a good time to mention that CrimethInc is
calling for an upcoming week of solidarity with J20 defendants.
From their website "July 20 marks six months from the initial
actions and arrests during Donald Trump’s inauguration, and on July
27, a motion to dismiss the charges will be argued in court. The
case has finally begun to receive the media attention it warrants;
with this court date approaching and the cases underway, this is a
crucial time for a second Week of Solidarity. Send reportbacks,
photographs, and inquiries to J20solidarity@protonmail.com."
More information can be had at crimethinc.com.
NC Defend J20 benefit
events
As relates to the recent shout out for fund and awareness raising
solidarity events for the upcoming week of Solidarity from July
20th-27th, 2017, we'd like to highlight a few North Carolina
events:
July 20th, at Firestorm in Asheville, there will be a free showing of TROUBLE #4, from subMedia, about repression and movement building as well as #2 of Channel (A)!, a collection of anarchist representations in popular media. This starts at 6:30pm.
On July 22nd, there'll be a benefit concert in Asheville starting at 6pm with a bbq and bake sale and suggested donations. Bands include: Mutual Jerk (from Atlanta), Poor Excuse, Clyde Conwell & a SECRET SPECIAL GUEST (I really hope it's performers from "Now Thats' What I Call Kerkhophony Vol 1). Look for the address for this show on http://ncj20defense.com soon.
On July 25th
at the Nightlight in Chapel Hill, NC, at 9pm there'll be benefit
concert for the J20 defendants. Bands include: Institute,
Drugecharge, Decoy & Dead On The Vine.
More on events around the world for the week of solidarity can be
found at http://defendj20resistance.org/ and a good
writeup with updates on the subject is up from crimethinc.
Denver
Fundraising
From Denver, there's a call out for fundraising for folks who
caught charges counter-demonstrating the Islamophobic antics of
"ACT for America" last month. They have some quite humorous
shirts, particularly for our insurrectionary herbalists of the
Laurel Luddite variety, as a fundraiser on a fundly page.
Update from Keith
"Comrade Malik" Washington
Another update from Keith "Malik" Washington, a spokespersyn for
the End Prison Slavery in Texas Movement:
Prisoners located in Lovelady, Texas, have filed their § 1983
Federal Civil Complaint in the Eastern District of Texas – Lufkin
Division. TDCJ has the largest state prison system in the United
States. Most of the 110 prison units are not air conditioned, and
toxic water supplies are becoming a pervasive and systemic
problem. At Eastham Unit, multiple prisoners have been
diagnosed with h. pylori disease from the water. Due to the Heat
Index, especially in the summer, prisoners must drink this
contaminated water that's causing h. pylori. The prison store known
as the commissary sells us “hot pots” which heat water but don't
boil it. If we alter our Hot Pots in order to make them boil, they
get confiscated and we are given a disciplinary case for
contraband.
This issue raises 8th Amendment concerns, and the US Supreme Court
has held that unsafe conditions that pose an unreasonable risk of
serious dangers to a prisoner's future health. Several prisoners
have been diagnosed with h. pylori disease which destroys the
lining of the stomach. There is no known cure.
Malik, in a recent statement from which we're selectively quoting,
and which is available at https://comrademalik.com/, goes
on to compare the governments utter disregard for the prison
population in Texas Department of Correction's jurisdiction, mainly
made up of poor white, black, native, latinx and other marginalized
peoples, to that of the administration in Flint, Michigan. In
particular, the sick and the elderly are endangered by this while
wards of the state in what may rightly be considered cruel but
sadly maybe not so unusual circusmstances. The main prisoner
involved in the case is a jailhouse lawyer named William Wells and
the case can be found as: William Wells et al. Vs Bryan Collier et
al. Cause #9:17-cv-80
For those of you who don't know, Bryan Collier is the Executive
Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ).
If you'd like to learn more, send Malik some mail at:
Keith 'Comrade Malik' Washington, TDC# 1487958, 2665 Prison Road
#1, Lovelady, TX 75851
And check out his writing on the support fedbook page or his support
site.
Houston Anarchist
Bookfair
Also related to Texas, we'd also like to inform folks that
submission periods have begun for the Houston Anarchist
Bookfair! The bookfair will be taking place on Sunday,
September 24, 2017
From their fundraising page:
"Houston Anarchist Black Cross will host a one-day convergence
to network, grow, and celebrate anarchist and
anti-authoritarian projects in Texas and the surrounding region,
and we need help to make it happen!
This gathering will be entirely free as part of our commitment
to accessibility, and because of this we need lots of help with
funding from those who can support us. The event itself will be
free, we will be providing lots of services at the bookfair for
free with the help of volunteers, it is free to table or present a
workshop, and we want to be able to help as many folks from out of
town as possible with their travel expenses and housing needs. This
event will have books, publishers, distros, zinesters, exciting
workshops, and discussion to celebrate and expand our southern
radical communities of resistance!
Money raised will go towards booking and renting our space,
bringing people in from out of town, feeding people who attend the
bookfair, buying supplies to set up the space, and funding
accessibility for the space. If you're planning on coming to the
bookfair, or coming to table or present a workshop, or are
generally excited about this radical southern space happening, and
you can help us raise the funds to make this event happen and keep
it free, we need your help!
Solidarity, Feed The
Possums, All that good stuff :)
-Houston ABC"
This'll be the first anarchist bookfair in Houston since 2011! If
you'd like to participate in the bookfair more directly, they've
opened up the submissions period for vendors and presenters, and
they've put up a page for reaching out if you have housing or accessibility needs
for the bookfair. Those links and more can be found at the
events website, or reach the organizers
at htxanarchistbookfair2017@gmail.com!
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