from Instagram 
Spotted on North 2nd Street, near Callowhill
Graffiti: RIP Alton Sterling ACAB
Maroon Sues DOC and Wins! Settlement Reached
from Free Russell Maroon Shoatz
Settlement reached in Shoatz v. Wetzel
July 11, 2016: Pittsburgh PA —A settlement has been reached in the case of Shoatz v. Wetzel, which challenged the 22-year solitary confinement of Abolitionist Law Center client and political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz. This brings an end to litigation begun in 2013. In February 2014, following an international campaign on behalf of Shoatz, he was released from solitary confinement.
In exchange for Shoatz ending the lawsuit the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) has agreed that it will not place Shoatz back in solitary confinement based on his prior disciplinary record or activities; Shoatz will have a single-cell status for life, meaning he will not have to experience the extreme hardship of being forced to share a cell following decades of enforced isolation; a full mental health evaluation will be provided; and the DOC has paid a monetary settlement.
Russell Maroon Shoatz had the following to say about the settlement: “I have nothing but praise for all of those who supported me and my family for all of the years I was in Solitary Confinement, as well as helped to effect my release. Since joining the struggle for Human Rights in the mid 1960s, I have always chosen to fight! Frederick Douglass was right when he said ‘Power concedes nothing without a demand.’ So have no doubt that I see this Settlement as anything but the latest blow struck, and you rest assured that I will continue in the struggle for Human Rights. Straight Ahead!”
Black Lives Matter & RIP Philando Castile FTP
from Instagram
Seen in North Philly #repost @mrgrtnolan #blacklivesmatter #americawasnevergreat #amerikkkawasnevergreat
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Seen in South Philly #rip #philandocastile #ftp #repost @randonzachary
oaxaca resiste benefit show
from Facebook
There is a huge human rights violation happening right now in Oaxaca, Mexico. They are shooting students and teachers just because they disagree with the new education reform. We are trying to raise money for those in need of medicine, medical bills for the hundreds that have been injured and for the funeral expenses for those that have passed. The government is corrupt and is periodically targeting and killing innocent students and teachers. We need all the help we can get, and we need all of you.
The money raised from these shows will be personally delivered to the people in need by Virus, a member of Massacre 68 (named after the mass killing of students in 1968). Lets stand together and help those suffering from a corrupt, brutal government.
Bands :
old lines. (baltimore)
prisoner. (VA)
N.E.G
[July 16 at 7PM in South Philadelphia]
Philadelphia, USA: Attack on a construction site as part of the month for the Earth and against capital
from Contra-Info
Everywhere the wild is pushing back against civilization. Even in the cities, wildness flourishes in forgotten places, slowly widening the cracks in this civilized order.
On a warm spring night, we went to a construction site where there was once a wild and abandoned place. We did what we could to hinder the progress that has befallen that area: removing survey stakes and dividers, stealing and destroying pieces of what was being built, and smashing the machines that homogenize and commodify the land.
We don’t know what they intend to build on the site and we don’t care. Any domestication of wild places infuriates us.
We took this action as a contribution to the month for the earth and against capital.
Philadelphia
Spring 2016
*Wooden Shoe Benefit* Fred Beans/Little State/A Day Without Love/Khalil A.
from Facebook 
Super cool trendy hip hip ACOUSTIC show wow!
Fred Beans: (big heart, small ego, observational fuzz pop)
https://fredbeans.bandcamp.com/
Little State: (forever young, nostalgic melodies)
https://littlestate.bandcamp.com/album/demo
Christa Wilcox: (quite familiar, quite personal)
https://christawilcox.bandcamp.com/album/personal
A Day Without Love:
https://adaywithoutlove.bandcamp.com/
Khalil Abdellah: (chill boi, chill world songs)
https://m.soundcloud.com/khalilabdellah
This show will be ACOUSTIC
5$
All door money will be donated to the Wooden Shoe, a fantastic safe space/volunteer run organization.
Respect the space, respect the ppl
[July 9 at 3pm at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]
Police Intimidation Last Night in Lead Up to DNC
from Facebook
“The attack on comrade Rufus Farmer last night was nothing short of the legal snatching of Blk/Brown bodies that occur daily in our communities under police occupation/militarization especially, when recording their interactions. They proved our bodies are nothing to be respected, and we’re just commodities to create more capital in an oppressive system that wants nothing more than to see our blood distributed into the soil like fertilizer.
Rufus Farmer is guilty of nothing short of living while Blk, breathing while Blk, walking while Blk, speaking while Blk, and demanding his freedom, while Blk.
The officer stated to him, “I’m going to take you somewhere there isn’t any cameras.” Which was the back of the precinct, pulled him to his knees on the croncrete, shoved his knee into his chest and throat area, and broke his toe, gave him a bogus citation for $300 and parking ticket for allegedly leaving his car unattended. They stated to him the knew he wasn’t a criminal because they know he’s a “professional protester,” what ever that means.
This happened at the hands of the 25th district, which is one of the two most violent districts in this city, as cited in the 2015 DOJ report, and they lived up to that reputation.
The Kenney administration will not get away with criminalizing citizens with this citation act and the 25th district will see the people’s response, we must all stand in unity when anyone in our activist community have been assaulted, as we know they are the voices of the voiceless, and they speak words that empower all those in hearing distance. The Brown community thanked our comrades for their voices and have already stated they will stand with us in court, with the video footage they have.
And lastly, Rufus Farmer was wearing a Free Mumia Abu-Jamal shirt!”
