Jan 15, 2017
This week we feature two interviews in the show.
Kamua Franklin on
#ungovernable
First, we spoke with Kamau Franklin, who is a radical activist, the
political editor for the online publication Atlanta Blackstar, and
former attourney based out of Atlanta, GA. We are speaking today
about Ungovernable, which is a radical organizing platform rooted
in anti state Black and POC autonomy, how it began, its directives
and ideals, and how to best move forward in this political moment
among many other things.
From their website:
"We pledge to create a resistance movement that makes Trump unable
to govern our oppression; unable to deceive the people, to
make the people accept his reign of hatred. We refuse to give
hatred a chance to govern, a chance to roll back civil and human
rights, a chance to deport millions of people, a chance to create
camps and registries for Muslims, a chance to expand the prison
industrial complex, a chance to expand its drone wars, or a chance
to turn back the gains won by our struggles."
To learn more about Ungovernable, you can visit their website at
https://www.ungovernable2017.com/, also you can hit
them up on fedbook by searching "Ungovernable 2017 and Beyond", our
guest has also invited people to message him on the FB too, you can
do that by searching his name spelled Kamau Franklin.
Repression in
Turkey
The second segment is an interview conducted by audio comrades from
the Slovenian anarchist radio project called Crna Luknja with a
member of the Turkish anarchist group DAF & an editor of their newspaper, Meydan.
As we announced recently on the show, the main editor of Meydan,
Hüseyin Civan, has just been sentenced to 15 months in prison in
relation to 3 articles in their December 2015 issue dealing with
the struggles of Kurdish minorities and the resistance they offer
to the Turkish state's slow genocide.
The conversation was published in their January 5th episode of
2017. Though most of Crna Luknja's interviews are conducted
in Slovenian, they do produce interviews in English when it's the
common language shared with their guests. More content from
Crna Luknja can be found here.
Announces
First, though a few quick, mostly prisoner announcements:
Sean
Swain
Sean Swain, an anarchist prisoner who's generally got a featured
segment on this show and has for 3 years as of this week, has been
on hunger strike at Warren Correctional Institution in Ohio since
December 26th and has been placed in a suicide cell.
Although details are still murky, we know that Sean has been
without food since December 26th. He was charged with extortion of
a deputy warden and had begun a disciplinary process when he began
his hunger strike and was placed in a suicide cell.
We know that the prison is recognizing his hunger strike and
following the associated procedures, which include taking him to
the medical unit every day and weighing him and taking his vital
signs. It is unclear whether they are attempting to negotiate with
him in any way.
Please take a moment to write a letter of encouragement to Sean and
to call the following prison administrators and encourage them to
negotiate with Sean and help him end this hunger strike as quickly
as possible.
Deputy Director of Operations Casey Barr (513) 932-3388 ext.
2005
Warden’s Assistant Greg Kraft (513) 932-3388 ext. 2010
Updates on Sean can be found at http://seanswain.org
Clemency
Pushes
There are pushes by the support crews in these last days of the
Obama presidency to request clemency or commutations for the
sentences of long standing political prisoners here in the
U.S. The few that we've caught wind of specifically are the
following:
Leonard
Peltier
Leonard Peltier, an indigenous activist and prisoner in his 70's is
continuing to serve in federal prison as his health declines
despite his denial of guilt in the shooting death of 2 fbi agents
during the raid on the American Indian Movement's encampment on the
Pine Ridge Reservation in North Dakota in 1975. The case has
been hotly debated since it was held, with many contesting the
possibility of Peltier's guilt. Recently, one of his
prosecutors from that case said that it was time to let him go due
to his age and health. More on his case can be found at http://whoisleonardpeltier.info
Reach out to US AG:
The Honorable Loretta Lynch
Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
Comment Line: +1 202 353 1555
Contact form: https://www.justice.gov/doj/webform/your-message-department-justice
Chelsea
Manning
Chelsea Manning is a former intel analyst for the U.S. Military who
was convicted of sharing documentation of military abuses with
Wikileaks and is serving a 35 year sentence. She is also a
Trans Woman who transitioned inside of military prison and because
of her poor treatment on the inside has been very depressed and
attempted suicide. There is hope that in his last days, Obama
may commute her sentence for trying to do the right thing and to
protect against the increased cruelty of the upcoming regime.
Visit http://chelseamanning.org for details on how to
support her
Resisting the Inauguration,
J20
An extensive list of anti-inaugural activities are set for January
20th around the Empire. Check out a partial list by finding
the post: https://itsgoingdown.org/disruptj20-actions-across-us-trump-regime/
Here in AVL: https://j20asheville.noblogs.org/
Playlist: http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/18858