2024 NE Bash Back Convergence!

from Bash Back News

𝚜ᴇ𝚡ʏ ғʀᴇᴀ𝚘̨𝚜 sᴇᴇᴋ 𝓼ᴇ𝔁ʏ ᴛɪᴍᴇ for Ⓐ 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓰𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮~! ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴅɪɴɢ ꜱᴋɪʟʟꜱ & ʙᴏɴᴅꜱ ᴡ/ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ sᴇxʏ ғʀᴇᴀǫs ✨

Do you favour a bitchin time making connections with queer anarchists? Gaining or helping to gain a skill? Do you desire time with others that could be hot and spicy in the streets and the sheets? With time afterward to wine and dine? Well, we got that all here, and it’s all kinds of fucking queer. We are gearing up for Bash Back! 24 NE REGIONALS in Philly!

Northeast/Mid-Atlantic babes,
come to Philly April 26 to 29!
But why not stay for May Day! 🏴

We will send more info as the event approaches! Right now, we are seeking workshop/discussion/panel proposals. Going to have a lighter load this time, so send us your best ideas! We’re incredibly excited about programs with an emphasis on strategy and regionally-relevant content, but if you’ve got some other freaQ shit you wanna share, do send! We want to lean more discussion than lecture and try to keep things under 90min. Send your proposal by email or by messenger bird~

💋 Send a short proposal detailing your vision.
🥊 Proposals must be sent by March 1.
💋 Email your proposals to bbphilly@protonmail.com.
🥊 Include any materials or accommodations you’ll need.
🕊️ Proposals can alternatively be sent via messenger bird?

As always, we encourage people to organize their own events, parties, orgies, etc.; these ^^ bits are just what will be on the BB! Philly schedule. If you want your event added to the schedule, tell us!

K𝖾𝖾𝗉 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖾𝗇𝖾𝗋𝗀𝗒 𝖿𝗋𝗈𝗆 𝖡𝖡!23 𝖼𝗎𝗆𝗆𝗂𝗇𝗀! 💦
𝕳𝖔𝖕𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖘𝖊𝖊 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖇𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊! 𝓧𝓞𝓧𝓞𝓧𝓞𝓧𝓞

Free Palestine Freight Graffiti

from Mastodon

Free Palestine freight graffiti spotted in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Life & Rebellion Reading Group

from Twitter

This Sunday at 5pm, is the first in a series of Life & Rebellion reading groups! you can find the reading here theanarchistlibrary.org/libr…

Necropolitics Reading Group

from Making Worlds Books

Necropolitics Reading Group is a DIY reading group focused on examining the links between statehood, violence, and dehumanization.

Necropolitics Study Group Details, Reading List, & Community Agreements

Please RSVP here

Saturdays 2PM – 3:30 PM starting February 24th at Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center

  • Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center 210 South 45th Street Philadelphia, PA, 19104 United States (map)

map of cop cities in the 50 states

from Scenes

Cop Cities, USA

February Reading: A Canticle for Leibowitz

from Viscera

Join us Sunday, February 25th at 1 pm (location tba) for our next reading discussion!

Did you know that, in a previous lifetime, we were a group of friends discussing anarchist-y science fiction? Call it a return to form, call it revisiting a favorite, but this month we’re doing one of our favorite works of fiction!

A Canticle for Leibowitz is a story of history repeating itself – from the ashes of a world laid waste by nuclear war, we watch as civilization is rebuilt and the human tragedy plays out again. Society, technology, knowledge, history – this work grapples with all of it!

Reading Group at O.R.C.A Rescheduled

Submission

february 17
5 pm
email or dm for address
orca.philly@protonmail.com
@OrcaPhilly (twitter)

come discuss the text ”some notes on insurrectionary anarchism” at orca! we’ll read the text aloud and then discuss it together. copies of the text will be available in zine form (alongside masks and covid tests).

Informality, Anarchy, and the Black Radical Tradition

from Making Worlds Books

The last couple years’ Black-centric revolts have been organized mostly informally. Informality is often overlooked when it comes to discussing Black liberation organizing, yet today’s cutting edge rebels are almost exclusively organized along these lines. We’ll be discussing informality, and anarchists’ strategies surrounding it, to better understand Black revolt and the Black left and to strategize destroying the civil society that has made Black liberation movements so necessary.

Advance registration appreciated.

This event will be a presentation followed by open discussion.

Atticus is a communist theorist and an anarchist in action. He’s been involved with anti-police struggle for the past 10 years of his life. His published writing is concerned with Black anarchism, the Black Radical Tradition, and small city organizing.

Cres is an anarchist living in Philadelphia. She’s participated in various struggles and uprisings over the last decade and a half. She’s interested in anarchy, incorrect and subversive uses of space and tools, and making memes.

  • Thursday, February 22, 2024
  • 5:00 PM 6:30 PM
  • Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center 210 South 45th Street Philadelphia, PA, 19104 United States (map)

Letters to Forest Defenders

from Instagram

On Sunday, February 18 at 5pm we are hosting a letter writing event for Jack Mazurek, a forest defender from Atlanta who was recently incarcerated. Bring pens, paper, envelopes, and stamps if you have them!

Crypto nazi in Philly

Submission

Hi I’m emailing you about a crypto nazi I’ve come across in the Philly area posing as a leftist.  He supports the Chinese / Russian government, goes on completely unhinged rants about Jews, and engages in Holocaust revisionism.

I am a Jew in Philly and while I do not support “zionism” I see far too many leftists being groomed into the far right by these people without even realizing it because they can’t distinguish when someone is right wing and using zionist as a dog whistle.  I’ve felt very alienated from the left because of things like this.
This man’s name is “Chris Riley” going by “Pr0letarorist” on Instagram or “Proletarorist” on Twitter.   He’s relatively popular too while posting all this stuff.
Downplaying the holocaust on holocaust remembrance day was the first one I saw:
Defending killing random civilians and supporting fascist governments such as Russia and iran:
Some more mask off moments:
I hope this is something that concerns you as well, this guy is a scumbag.   This is a time when Jews are facing unprecedented hate crimes.  Have a good day

Reading Group at O.R.C.A

Submission

february 18
2:30 pm
email or dm for address
orca.philly@protonmail.com
@OrcaPhilly (twitter)

come discuss the text ”some notes on insurrectionary anarchism” at orca! we’ll read the text aloud and then discuss it together. copies of the text will be available in zine form (alongside masks and covid tests).

Beehive Design Collective Presents MesoAmerica Resiste! and The True Cost of Coal

from Making Worlds Books

Join Beehive Design Collective as they present their newly released 10 Year Anniversary edition of “MesoAmerica Resiste!”, their new book, “The True Cost of Coal”, and even a peek into their work-in-progress about California: “The Callegory”.

Advance registration strong recommended.

The Bees use their massive, collaboratively produced, and intricately detailed fabric murals to tell complex global stories of stories of resistance, resilience, and solidarity. Packed with nature metaphors, peoples histories, and teeming with biodiversity, these images offer the foundation for an event of participatory discussion, poetic storytelling, and popular education. “MesoAmerica Resiste!’ focuses on stories from Mexico to Colombia. A map drawn in old colonial style depicts the modern invasion of megaprojects planned for the region… and opens to reveal the view from below, where communities are organizing locally and across borders to defend land and traditions, protect cultural and ecological diversity, and build alternative economies.

“The True Cost of Coal” tells many stories from the frontlines of Southern Appallachia who fought mountaintop removal for coal extraction for decades. This graphics campaign reflects the complexity of the struggles for land, livelihood, and self-determination playing out in Appalachia, and was made with the intention of honoring the tremendous history of organized resistance and the courage of communities living in the shadow of Big Coal.

  • Sunday, February 11, 2024
  • 5:00 PM 6:00 PM
  • Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center 210 South 45th Street Philadelphia, PA, 19104 United States (map)

Vandal smashes windows of vehicles at Central Berks police station

from Unravel

Jan. 31—A crime was committed almost literally in Central Berks Regional Police Department’s own backyard.

On Monday night, a vandal used a baseball bat to smash the windows of a patrol car and the personal vehicle of an officer in the parking lot behind the police station at 2147 Perkiomen Ave. in Mount Penn.

The vandal got away and was “difficult to identify” in security footage.

found on news media

In Contempt #37: Movement in Solidarity with Palestine Faces Repression; First Cop City Trial Stalls

from It’s Going Down

[This post only contains information relevant to Philadelphia and the surrounding area, to read the entire article follow the above link.]

Uprising Defendants

See Uprising Support for more info, and check out the Antirepression PDX site for updates from Portland cases. To the best of our knowledge they currently include:

David Elmakayes 77782-066
FCI McKean
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 8000
Bradford, PA 16701

Anthony Smith
14813-509
FCI Fort Dix
Federal Correctional Institution
Satellite Camp
P.O. Box 2000
Joint Base MDL, NJ 08640

Upcoming Birthdays

Luis Sierra (Abdul-Haqq El-Qadeer)

A former Vaughn 17 defendant. While the state has now dropped its attempts to criminalize Luis in relation to the uprising, Vaughn defendants continue to face retaliation. Luis is also a contributor to “Live from the Trenches,” the Vaughn 17 zine.

Delaware appears not to have an inmate email system.

Birthday: February 19

Address:

Luis Sierra
James T. Vaughn Correctional Center
1181 Paddock Rd
Smyrna, DE 19977

 

Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War — Author Andrew Lee with Keyssh from Decolonize Philly

from Making Worlds Books

Cities are in the midst of a profound transformation as the wealthy price out the remnants of the urban working class, especially people of color. Defying Displacement, focused on the US but informed by global examples, investigates gentrification from the perspective of the people fighting some of the most powerful institutions on the planet. As mass displacement alters the composition of gentrifying cities, the avenues available for social change become unsettled as well, forcing us to reimagine our strategies for building a better world. Author Andrew Lee will be in conversation with Keyssh Datts of Decolonize Philly.

“So often gentrification is a process understood in limited terms as a flow of people or the impersonal and inevitable flow of capital. In Defying Displacement, Andrew Lee analyzes both in tandem, illuminating how gentrification transforms not only housing markets, but the horizon of possibility for revolt. Regardless of where they are reading from, readers will be able to understand this subject with a fresh appreciation of how global struggles past, present, and future are linked by the making and unmaking of cities.” —Ayesha Siddiqi, editor in chief of The New Inquiry

Advance registration recommended and appreciated.

About the Speakers
Defying Displacement author Andrew Lee participated in a multi-year fight against the construction of a Google campus in San José, California that culminated in the creation of the first community land trust in the so-called Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Philadelphia and is a member of the No Arena in Chinatown Solidarity group opposing the planned 76ers arena. Lee supports grassroots social movements as managing editor for The ARD and his work has previously appeared in Yes! Magazine, The New Inquiry, Teen Vogue, and ROAR Magazine.

Keyssh Datts is a multimedia creator, community organizer, and founder of Decolonize Philly, a racial and environmental justice group using media and direct action to bring changemakers together to build towards a land revolution.

  • Friday, February 9, 2024
  • 6:00 PM 7:00 PM
  • Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center 210 South 45th Street Philadelphia, PA, 19104 United States (map)