Feb 12, 2017
Jesse Cohn rebroadcast
This week we are re-broadcasting an episode which originally aired
in early May 2015 with Jesse Cohn who is the author of the book
Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture 1848-2011,
published by AK Press. In the book, Jesse explores
trajectories in literature, cartoons, comics, music, poetry, drama
produced at times by and or for or just conspicuously consumed by
anarchists in europe, north and south america and asia during that
time period. More info on the book can be found at https://www.akpress.org/
Stay tuned next week for a conversation with an anarchist who has
spent a bunch of time in struggle at Standing Rock about their
experiences and moving forward with an explicitely anti colonialist
approach to resource extraction resistance.
But first here are some announcements:
"Imperial Wizard" kicks it!
To start off with some good news, yesterday February 11th the
bloated corpse of KKK Imperial Wizard Frank Ancona was fished out
of the Missouri River, apparently after having been there for a hot
minute. This piece of human garbage white supremacist is the
bonehead who was credited with saying that Ferguson protesters,
showing their rage at the police murder of Mike Brown, had awakened
a "sleeping giant" in the KKK and claimed unlimited violence in
"retaliation". Who's sleepin now, Frankie? In whatever way this
death occured, here's hoping that KKK will follow their leader in
this ultimate act.
Support NC #DisruptJ20 arrestees
On January 20, 2017, tens of thousands of people converged in
Washington, D.C. for the #disruptJ20 protests opposing the
inauguration of Donald Trump. A combination of blockades, marches,
and festive demonstrations made it clear around the world that the
people do not recognize Trump’s authority or support his
policies.
In response, D.C. police went on a rampage, shooting pepper spray,
tear gas, and concussion grenades indiscriminately at protesters,
including children, the elderly, and people with disabilities. In
one instance, police cordoned off an entire block and mass arrested
257 people, including dozens of North Carolinians.
This attack on political dissent is intended to create a chilling
effect to keep protesters out of the streets so that Trump can move
forward with his divisive agenda. We owe it to the arrestees to
support them through the legal process so they can get adequate
representation and as fair a hearing as possible.
A group of North Carolinian community organizers created the NC J20
Legal Defense Fund to quickly and efficiently support the arrestees
from North Carolina. Please join us in donating, and spread the
word to everyone who cares about civil discourse and the future of
our world.
If you are a North Carolinian arrested at #disruptJ20 and are not
yet in touch with us, email ncj20legalteam@gmail.com
We cannot accept donations in individual’s names, but all donations
will be used to provide legal support to #disruptJ20 arrestees from
North Carolina.
You can donate at http://ncj20defense.com/
Antifa Sacramento medical support
From Antifa Sacramento:
One of the six antifascists who was stabbed by Neo-Nazis at the
capitol building in Sacramento on June 26th, 2016 still has
thousands of dollars in medical bills to pay. An artist has made a
beautiful print to support this person, and it is now being sold to
continue fundraising for this brave individual’s remaining medical
bills. They are 5 dollars each, and printed on 7×8 cardstock.
If you would like one, please head over to the website https://antifasac.noblogs.org/donate/, make a
donation, and email the crew to let them know how many cards you’d
like and what address we should mail it to.
Thank you for the support!
-Antifa Sacramento
Herbal Clinic at la ZAD
From comrades at la ZAD, the autonomous occupation resisting the
building of an airport in in Notre Dame des Landres outside of
Paris, France:
We're a group of people who have been working with medicinal plants
on the ZAD for the past 6 years. We've made a collective medicinal
plant garden and do wild harvesting to stock a small apothecary of
dried plants that we distribute at the non-market or out of a
house. Some of us do first aid in demos or everyday on the ground,
and others do education like plant walks and workshops.
In an effort to have more collective autonomy in healthcare, we
would like to be able to do consultations, both individual and
group. The idea is to have one day a week for free price individual
consultations, and another for people to come and learn together,
combining different people's knowledge while having access to
plants, to figure out common acute illnesses. However, to have
enough medicine for 300 people all year long, would mean full time
in the garden and probably bitter burnout. Which is why we are
asking for money.
Just this week a group in solidarity finished building a cabin
where we can dry, process, and store plants, and do consultations
and workshops. We're able to get access to bulk tinctures that are
super cheap (€2 an oz.!!!) and plan to distribute medicine at free
or indicated price so that we can make some of the money back and
the clinic can fund itself and time can be spend gardening instead
of having to beg for money all the time. Money raised will go
primarily towards tinctures and dried plants, but also to bottles,
tools and machines, and menstrum for making more medicine.
Please help us out! Also if you can donate dried plants or medicine
get in touch at plantesmedicinaleszad@riseup.net
You can donate to la ZAD by visiting the website https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/zad-herb-clinic
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