Anarchists in St. Louis Rally Outside Home of CEO in Solidarity with Striking Mexican Workers

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In the wake of over a dozen deaths caused by coronavirus, hundreds of maquiladora workers have walked out on strike across the city of Juárez in so-called Mexico. Hundreds of strikers at Electrical Components International (ECI), a US company based out of St. Louis, are demanding that workers be sent home with pay to quarantine.... Read Full Article

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Defending Space: Security for Buildings and Physical Spaces

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In the last 20 years, there have been innumerable watershed moments that have resulted in increasing repression against movements of social and economic liberation. In the so-called United States we’ve experienced a reality shaped by the Green-Scare, the Patriot Act, endless war, the Snowden leaks, the rise of drone technology, creation of fusion centers, the... Read Full Article

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Final Straw: Lorenzo Komb’oa Ervin & Bomani Shakur

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Long running anarchist radio and podcast show, The Final Straw, brings us interviews with Bomani Shakur and Lorenzo Komb’oa Ervin. This midweek, we’re sharing two segments. First up, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin talks about attempts in the 1960’s and 70’s at building a prisoners union in the United States and parallels with inside / outside organizing... Read Full Article

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May Day Caravans and Noise Demos Planned Throughout the US

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With the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world, this year groups and organizations across the US and beyond are organizing car caravans and noise demonstration which have been popularized over the last two months. These caravans will highlight many of the ongoing current struggles: from support for the rent strike, calling for the release of prisoners,... Read Full Article

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Madison, WI: Bail Fund Benefit To Stop The Deaths In The Jail And Community

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Announcing bail fund in response to the ongoing public health crisis in Dane County. There is a public health crisis in the Dane County jail, and the Free The 350 Bail Fund is doing something about it by helping organize decarceration campaigns, part of which is holding online concerts to free them all. The bail... Read Full Article

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Earth First! Journal Updates & 40th Anniversary Summer Issue

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Updates from the long-running radical and ecological direct action originated media platform, Earth First! Journal. Our website is back up (again) and we are launching a flash sale on our yearly subscriptions and 2019 bundle! You can use code MAYDAY at checkout for a 20% discount now through May Day. We know many of you... Read Full Article

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Political Prisoner and Prison Rebel Birthdays for May

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A collection of political prisoner and prison rebel birthdays for May 2020. Inspired by the spirit of the Political Prisoners Birthday crew (and recycling some of their old artwork because why not?) , here’s a short listing of some rebel prisoners who have upcoming birthdays in May. For an introduction on how to write to... Read Full Article

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Workers From Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart, & Shipt Speak Out on May 1st Strike

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On this special episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we host a round table discussion featuring essential workers who are planning May Day strike actions this Friday. Our guests include workers from Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart, and Shipt. We discuss how the coronavirus crisis has played out in each workplace and how corporations have... Read Full Article

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“We’re Still in Stress Mode”: North Lake Hunger Strike Recap

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Prisoner in Michigan discusses recenter hunger strike at the North Lake Correctional Facility. In a phone call from Tuesday afternoon, April 21st, a participant in the second hunger strike in the North Lake Correctional Facility’s Special Housing Unit describes the reasons for the strike and its outcome. The strike is over for now—and the warden... Read Full Article

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RAM: Call for Autonomous Actions on May Day

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Call from the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (RAM) for autonomous actions on May Day. While deadlier diseases have come and gone, the world is now in a uniquely disastrous position with the COVID-19 pandemic as it affects the entire world simultaneously. With capitalism grinding to a screeching halt in some areas, the refusal of the state... Read Full Article

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Communique from CODEDI Regarding the Situation of Indigenous Political Prisoner Fredy García Ramírez

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Communique from the Indigenous organization, CODEDI, regarding the situation of political prisoner, Fredy García Ramírez, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.   To the Social Organizations To the Free and Mass Media To the National and International Human Rights Organizations To the People of Mexico and the World As the Committee for the Defense of Indigenous Rights... Read Full Article

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1234 Pacific Street Tenant Association Escalates Rent Strike Amidst Management’s Strike-Busting Attempts

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Report from Brooklyn, NY tenants on an attempt by landlords to break their rent strike. To hear our interview on This Is America with tenants at 1234 Pacific Street, go here. Since April 1st, tenants of 1234 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY, have been on rent strike.Many of these tenants are unable to pay rent as... Read Full Article

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Pittsburgh Demands Abolition During Coronavirus (and Forever)

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An analysis of Pittsburgh’s local jail amidst the coronavirus epidemic and a short report on ongoing abolitionist activity. Over the past many weeks, community members in Pittsburgh have been organizing to demand the release of people who are in prisons, detention centers and jails in Pittsburgh and around the country. Between phone-zaps and demonstrations, we... Read Full Article

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If it Falls, Let it Drop: Lessons from the Car Blockades

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On April 24, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp began a controversial “re-opening” of the state’s economy, the first governor to do so in the entire US. This deadly move is aimed at disqualifying recently unemployed public benefits applicants from assistance in a state where public resources are scarce. As we write, COVID-19 cases continue to skyrocket... Read Full Article

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This Week In Fascism #56: Journalist Held At Knifepoint at Far-Right ‘Re-Open’ Rally; Proud Boys Exposed

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Welcome, fellow antifascists! This week, we’ve got Augustus Invictus getting re-arrested and winding up in the same jail as his dad on Hitler’s birthday, a Re-Open protester kidnapping a news cameraman at knifepoint, the Proud Boys rallying alongside a League of the South member, and Nick Fuentes getting kicked off TikTok. Without further ado, let’s... Read Full Article

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This Is America #115: Brooklyn Tenants on Rent Strike Talk May 1st

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Welcome, to This Is America, April 25th, 2020. On this episode, we speak with tenants in Brooklyn, New York on rent strike. We discuss how their strike has been going since it began on April 1st, how the tenant movement has grown throughout the month, and what people can expect on May 1st, where a... Read Full Article

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Rent Strike: Housing Activism in the Pandemic Online Forum 4/28

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Check out this upcoming livestream event about the rent strike and discuss with authors and activists from Ottawa, Los Angeles, and the UK. Facebook HERE EventBrite HERE We were already suffering from a housing crisis, with landlords and banks jacking up the rents and doing mass evictions. And that was before the pandemic. With the... Read Full Article

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As Unemployment Reaches Depression Era Levels, Autonomous Tenant Movement Seems Poised to Explode

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On April 1st, people across the world refused to pay their rent, as the coronvirus outbreak created a ripple effect throughout the global economy, forcing millions out of work and millions more onto the front-lines of the pandemic as “essential workers.” Alongside an explosion of wildcat strikes and actions by prisoners and migrant detainees, the... Read Full Article

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April 19th #FreeThemAllCaravan Reportback

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Report back on day of action in so-called Canada against prisons and migrant detention centers. Originally posted to North Shore Counter-Info. On April 19th, solidarity caravans drove to prisons and migrant detention centres across the country as part of a day of action against imprisonment. The caravans made noise and held signs in solidarity with those... Read Full Article

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Parole Letters Needed for Ferguson Prisoner Josh Williams

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Info on how to help Ferguson prisoner, Joshua Williams, with parole letters. Josh is up for parole in June of 2020. In order to strengthen his chances for release, he needs letters that attest to his character and the support he’ll have once he’s home. You can write a letter on your own addressed to... Read Full Article

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Anarchist Resistance In Prison: Jennifer A. Rose and Comrade Z

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Final Straw presents the voices of two incarcerated comrades: Jennifer Amelie Rose and Comrade Z. Both chats were conducted through the mail and are voiced by comrades in the Channel Zero Network. First you’ll hear Jennifer Rose. Jennifer, formerly known as Jennifer Gann, is a member of the Fire Ant Collective which just released it’s 6th... Read Full Article

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Fire Ant: Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity #6

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Fire Ant, a publication featuring anarchist prisoners, returns with a new issue. Read and Print HERE Fire Ant is a quarterly publication focused on spreading the words of anarchist prisoners and generating material solidarity for our imprisoned friends. Begun as a collaboration between anarchist prisoners and anarchists in Maine, Fire Ant seeks to raise material... Read Full Article

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Alabama: Hunger Strike at Kilby C.F. Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

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Report from Fight Toxic Prisons on launch of hunger strike in the face of spreading COVID-19 infections. In the midst of a global pandemic, a prison hunger strike began on Friday April 17th at Kilby Correctional Facility. Kenneth Traywick, the sole hunger striker, is protesting fabricated assault charges that were placed on him and at... Read Full Article

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Phone-Zap Oregon COVID-19 Campaign

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Call for a phone-zap campaign in so-called Oregon to free prisoners in the face of the spread of COVID-19. In light of the unprecedented health crisis that is COVID-19, we are calling on Kate Brown to take immediate action to keep people currently being held in Oregon jails, prisons, and detention centers safe. Last week,... Read Full Article

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BreakOut: Dispatches on Resistance to the Pandemic Inside Prison Walls #2

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It’s been nearly two weeks since we sat down to collect the stories of how COVID-19 has torn through the US prison system and how resistance has been raging on both the inside and the outside. In that time, several states have begun to talk about “reopening” their economies as they push the lie that... Read Full Article

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We Are the Shutdown: May 1st 2020

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We share and endorse the following call for actions on May 1st, 2020. Since 1886, anarchists, feminists, immigrants and other workers and rebels have observed May Day as a celebration of resistance. In 2020, when the continuation of capitalism explicitly threatens death for countless workers and the destruction of the biosphere we all depend on,... Read Full Article

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Philly Tenants Union Calls for a City Wide Rent Strike on May 1st

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Call from the Philly Tenants Union for a city-wide rent strike starting on May 1st. On Friday 5/1, thousands of Philadelphians will participate in a rent strike, either in solidarity with other tenants or because they cannot afford to pay rent. Over 1.3 million Pennsylvanians have filed for unemployment, meaning 1 in 5 workers in... Read Full Article

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What’s Worth Dying For?: Confronting the Return to Business as Usual

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CrimethInc. looks at the recent far-Right demonstrations which have pushed for a re-opening of the economy. Some things are worth risking death for. Perpetuating capitalism is not one of them. Going back to work—at risk of spreading COVID-19 or dying from it—so that the rich can continue accruing profits is not worth dying for. If... Read Full Article

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Pittsburgh, PA: Call for Phone Zap for Prisoners at Allegheny County Jail

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Call for phone-zap for prisoners at Allegheny County Jail who are at high risk of infection from coronavrirus. Pittsburgh’s Bukit Bail Fund (https://ift.tt/2KtR6Z7) is calling for a phone zap marathon in solidarity with prisoners in Allegheny County Jail, who are at at high risk of infection with coronavirus. Targets for the first three days are... Read Full Article

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Solidarity and Collective Autonomy: An Interview with Woodbine

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A translated interview from the French publication Rouen Dans la Rue with the autonomous anti-capitalist space, Woodbine, located in so-called New York. Solidarity everywhere is organized. It is not only a question of remedying the failings of the State, as we read too often. In the USA, Italy, France and probably elsewhere, there are autonomous... Read Full Article

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Hunger Strike at Adelanto ICE Processing Center, California

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Report from Perilous Chronicle on hunger strike at ICE processing center in Adelanto, California. A series of hunger strikes have occurred in the Adelanto ICE Processing Center involving an estimated 100-180 detainees. The strikers are protesting the lack of basic sanitation and their continued confinement during a global pandemic that continues to claim the lives... Read Full Article

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Kingston, ON: Prisoner Solidarity Car Caravan

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Report on recent car bloc noise demonstration outside of Collins Bay Institution in so-called Kingston, Ontario. On Sunday afternoon a caravan of about a dozen vehicles drove to Collins Bay Institution, a federal prison in Kingston, ON to hold a noisy demonstration in solidarity with prisoners demanding to be released in response to the COVID-19... Read Full Article

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ROAR Collective Interviews Zoé Samudzi: COVID-19, Hierarchical Power, and the Distribution of Death

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Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, both the ROAR Conference and the 2020 Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair has been cancelled. In it’s place the organizing collective is presenting a series of podcasts, the first with anarchist theorist Zoé Samudzi. Listen HERE Hello friends, we are excited to announce our first podcast! Join the Revolutionary Organizing Against... Read Full Article

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Phone Zap: End NC DPS’ Repression & Medical Neglect Against Daniel Allen

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Call for phone zap in support of Daniel Allen, a prisoner in North Carolina. On Wednesday, April 22, we are appealing to people of faith and conscience to call the NC Department of Public Safety and Maury Correctional to pressure them to stop the medical neglect of Mr. Daniel Allen, a prisoner at Maury who... Read Full Article

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This Week in Fascism #55: Astroturfed Rallies Attract Far-Right; Neo-Nazis Attempt Bombing of Old Folks Home

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Welcome, fellow antifascists! This week, we’ve got the far-Right organizing protests against public health guidelines, an attempted bombing against a Massachusetts assisted living facility, doxxes of podcast hosts, a member of The Base, and multiple Proud Boys who blocked a hospital in Michigan, plus how you can help fight the far-Right’s assault on social distancing!... Read Full Article

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Direct Action to #FreeThemAll: From Stateville Prison to the Front Yard of its Warden

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Report and video on recent action in solidarity with prisoners at Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, IL. There has been a major shift in tactics and strategy for the grassroots campaign to #FreeThemAll in U.S. prisons, jails, and detention centers, quite noticeably right now throughout the Midwest. Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, IL is quickly... Read Full Article

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