Nov 27, 2016
This week on the Final Straw, we air a conversation Bursts had
with a member of New York City Anarchist Black Cross, heretoforth
known as nyc-abc. For a good portion of the hour we speak
about this activists views on anarchist support for prisoners and
long term liberation prisoners. We also talk about the work
that NYC-ABC does including: prisoner-writing nights; the Running
Down The Walls event coordinated with numerous folks on the outside
and incarcerated comrades; their recently unvailed Project FANG (
with help from Sac Prisoner Support) which sets
aside regular visitation funds for animal and earth liberation
prisoners and their loved ones; their U.S. Political Prisoner
graphic guide updated monthly; and more. You can find out
more about NYC-ABC on their website at http://nycabc.wordpress.com, or find them on the
various and insidious social media platforms out there.
For the last 10 minutes, here is a musical track to get you into
the holiday spirit, and to beckon some much-needed rains in this
area to put out the fires: Klarträumer, meaning Lucid Dream.
This is Deluge from their album, Aether. Deluge is from Metz,
Lorraine in France. More from them and other awesome dark and
heavy music with good politics can be found at http://thedarkskiesaboveus.blogspot.com
2016 Former Political Prisoner Panel pt2
Podcast
Also of note, in a few days we'll be releasing the second half of
the Former Political Prisoner Panel from the 2016 North American
Anarchist Black Cross conference in Denver. This year we
heard from Sekuo Kombui, Daniel McGowan, Kazi Toure and John
Tucker. To hear the first portion and check out brief bio's
of these folks visit: Part 1, 2016
IWOC call for support for James Shelby
When you have a minute (literally, one minute) please call WMCC
Prison
Warden Sherie Korneman in Missouri at (816) 632-1390 and say, "I
am
calling to do a wellness check on James Shelby, prisoner number
41244,
my friend told me his life is in danger to medical negligence. If
he was
not sent back to the hospital after November 14th, he needs to be
taken
immediately."
Again, that name and number is Warden Sherie Korneman at (816)
632-1390.
#NoDAPL: Standing Rock camp threatened with
eviction
As many of you have probabaly heard, the Standing Rock camp for
resisting the Dakota Access pipeline has recently been issued an
eviction notice to take effect on December 5th (though they are
*generously* granting people a so called "free speech zone" well
away from the camp and sacred lands). Updates from the camp have
been flying out fast in recent weeks, most notably having to do
with the police and army's use of force essentially being
tantamount to torture and brutality. In the wake of the eviction
notice, there had been a call from standing rock for a broadening
of tactics for people wanting to stand in solidarity with water
protectors. To that end, there is a collection of names and
addresses of people directly related to the Dakota access pipeline
which you can use as you see fit; the authors of the peice are very
clear to state that they do not endorse so called "illegal
activity, but that the list is for education and outreach purposes
only". However, I think that it is also safe to say that people
should use their discretions when coming up with any actions they
would like to see happen.
You can see this full article, plus the list of names and
addresses, check out: https://itsgoingdown.org/nodapl-indigenous-land-defense-strategic-solidarity-pressuring-power-capital/
Portland organizing
Please help to build Portland’s movement total and collective
liberation! Please donate now! Many people have been outraged
by the election, Standing Rock, Prison Industrial Complex, white
supremacy and capitalism in general. We are all fed up and need to
take a stand. The left movement in general is grossly underfunded
and inhibits our ability to control the narrative with social media
and of course trumping the corporate media. Many activists are
getting arrested and charged for all kinds of things. We need to
keep our communities safe.
However the movement needs funds to actually move forward and fix
this whole system and not because it’s broken! It’s because we need
to build something new! Not fix broken things. It was never a
broken system and was meant to do exactly what it was doing! Please
help!
Help spread the word!
you can donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/support-fund-antitrump-activists
Playlist: http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/18336