The Fire Inside: Reportbacks and Speaking Tours from September 9 and looking ahead

  • July 24, 2017 11:50 am

from The Fire Inside

There is a fire seething in US prisons. September 9th of 2016 saw some of the largest prisoner rebellions in history. This August, prisoners are calling to fan the flames up again.

Participants in last year’s mass mobilization and nationally coordinated prisoner protest are calling for another wave of actions starting on August 19th of this year. In order to succeed and combat the brutal repression prison rebels face there must be robust, visible, and widespread support on the outside. To that end, we’re putting out a reportback zine and organizing speaking tours to distribute it.

Read our tour announcement for more info.

Mon July 31- Philadelphia, PA

6PM at A-Space
4722 Baltimore Ave

Philly IWW Certification Meeting

  • July 23, 2017 11:42 am

from Facebook

A Meeting to discuss the IWW cetification as an actual General Membership Branch. I Please come especially if you are a singed up member to sing a petition to have our brnach chartred . Even id you are not a singed up member please come and discuss things.
[July 30 from 6PM to 9PM at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]

BBQ and Self-Defense Skill-Share

  • July 16, 2017 1:25 pm

from Facebook

Come out for some free food and for a free self-defense skill-share. During the skill-share, we will learn various techniques for defending ourselves from attackers: how to break grabs and holds, how to block punches and kicks, how to disarm weapons, and how to defend youself from the ground. There will also be a Q&A for questions and scenarios.

[July 23 from 3 to 8PM at FDR Park 1500 Pattison Ave]

LAVA Benefit : Solarized, Sheena + Nosebleeds, Manikineter

  • June 18, 2017 2:27 pm

from Facebook

hey LAVA Space needs our help to pay some bills! come see some bands and give some cash!

SOLARIZED
http://solarized.bandcamp.com/
(transcend the paradigm…don’t want the moon, stay yo ass on earth then)

MANIKINETER
https://carlkavorkian.bandcamp.com/album/mannequin-eater
(the freedom and liberation of paranoia, the ghost in the machine)

SHEENA AND THEE NOSEBLEEDS
https://sheenatheenosebleeds.bandcamp.com/
(the queen of comets burst through the noise)

WEATHER
https://whatsweather.bandcamp.com/releases
(b-list gobots make messy trance)

DJ Yung Nila

[June 25 7-11PM at LAVA 4134 Lancaster Ave]

LAVA Benefit: The Guests, Ramona Cordova, Anili Mars, Talon Duch

  • June 17, 2017 12:10 am

from Facebook

After a bunch of bullshit, we owe the water department a lot of money. Come help us out and enjoy a bunch of dope music.

The Guests
https://theguests000.bandcamp.com/

Ramona Córdova
https://ramonacordova.bandcamp.com/

Anili Mars
https://soundcloud.com/anilimars

Talon Ducheneaux
http://bazille.squarespace.com/

$5-20 Sliding scale love for LAVA
Doors at 7PM

IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT BUT YOU WOULD STILL LIKE TO THROW IN FOR THIS VERY SPECIAL SPACE, YOU CAN DONATE HERE:
https://www.gofundme.com/save-lava-from-water-dept-chumps

[June 24 at 7pm at LAVA 4134 Lancaster Av]

Vegan Solidarity Brunch / Book / Art Sale

  • June 10, 2017 7:24 pm

from Facebook

On June 17th from 10AM-2PM Food Not Bombs will be holding an all vegan brunch, book and art sale to raise funds for comrades. $5-$10 for brunch (no one turned away for lack of funds!) Tons of great books and art for sale.

50% of all we raise will go to LAVA, and the other 50% will go to the Philly J20 defense fund.

SOLIDARITY NOT CHARITY!
[LAVA Space 4134 Lancaster Ave]

Vegan Cookout & BBQ to Benefit Marius Mason

  • June 4, 2017 1:21 pm

from Instagram

[June 11th 4-6PM
Grays Ferry Crescent Skatepark
$5-15]

Against the Fascist Creep

  • May 28, 2017 2:44 pm

from Facebook

Fascists are creeps. Time to drag them from the shadows.

As the election of Donald Trump shows, fascism in all its white nationalist and “alt-right” permutations is alive and well in the United States. A terrifying tour of the history and influence of the forces that helped bring the 45th president to power, Against the Fascist Creep maps the connections and names the names. It traces today’s often-disguised forms of rightwing extremism through the decades and across the globe to show how infiltration is a conscious and clandestine program for neofascist groups that seek to co-opt and undermine both the mainstream and the new social movements of the left.

This book is a line in the sand that both identifies the creep of fascist messages, ideas, and organization throughout our society and outlines how to stop it in its tracks.

[June 4th 7pm at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]

J20: Everymen (FL) // Complex // Cape of Bats //Humo

  • May 6, 2017 6:11 pm

from Facebook

Everymen (FL) – On the road from Florida
https://soundcloud.com/everymen-1

Complex – Mutant pogo freaks
https://complex.bandcamp.com/releases

Cape of Bats – metallic blackened punk
https://capeofbats.bandcamp.com/

Humo

*****J20 BENEFIT BAR*****
Think twice or 3 times before you byob

$7-$10
No bullshit OR ELSE

Proceeds from this show will go to the Philly J20 Support fund to help ease the financial burden of traveling back and forth to DC for court appearances, lawyer fees, etc. If you can’t make it to the show but would like to donate please do so using the link below:
https://www.everribbon.com/ribbon/view/62860
For a look at the current legal situation for J20 defendants you can give this article a read (i know its buzzfeed but its fair and accurate):
https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/inauguration-day-arrestees-make-early-moves-to-challenge-fel?utm_term=.yt317jn2w#.nbOp0jK8L

SOLIDARITY FOREVER

[May 13 from 7pm to 11pm]

PRFC summer free movie meetup: Surf Nazis Must Die [1987]

  • May 5, 2017 9:34 pm

from Facebook

An earthquake leaves the California coastline in ruins and reduces the beaches to a state of chaos. A group of Neo-Nazis led by Adolf, the self-proclaimed “Führer of the new beach”, takes advantage of the resulting chaos by fighting off several rival surfer gangs to seize control of the beaches. Meanwhile, an African American oil well worker named Leroy is killed by the surf Nazis while jogging on the beach. Leroy’s mother, “Mama” Washington, devastated by the loss of her son, vows revenge…
[May 12 from 7 to 10pm at A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave]

Benefit Show for Let’s Get Free

  • April 28, 2017 3:15 pm

from Facebook

Westboro Baptist Choir, The Bleeders (from Kutztown), The Invasive Species (release of new song/seed packet, Plus possibly one other band TBA , Poetry from Emily Abendroth, presentations from Philly prisoner’s advocates, fancy cocktail bar, This show is a benefit for Pittsburgh based Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee, Let’s Get Free. Come learn about what they do and support them and rock out
[May 5th 8PM to 11PM at LAVA space 4134 Lancaster Ave]

PA Pipeline Resistance Fundraiser

  • April 25, 2017 9:33 pm

from Instagram

[April 26th from 6 – 8 PM at Bartram’s Garden 5400 Lindbergh Blvd
Suggested Donation of $20]

Phl 4/27: J20 Benefit Raffle and Show

  • April 20, 2017 9:21 am

from Facebook

This is a special night where we can all come together and enjoy eachothers art, music and company while raising money for Phily heads who were arrested protesting the inauguration in DC on J20. Some awesome businesses, bands and artists have helped contribute to set up this RAFFLE/SHOW and it is gonna be very cool and you just might leave with some awesome stuff.

Raffle Prizes Contributed by:
Michelle K
Erik Savage
Kevin Spaghetti
Low Level
Yoni Kroll
Green Line Cafe
Sit & Spin Records
Beautiful World Syndicate
Jim Shomo
Dottie’s Donuts
+More TBA

Musical Acts by:

HVAC (NYC)
https://hvacnyc.bandcamp.com/releases

S.L.I.P. (PGH)
https://sorrystaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/slippy-when-wet

PEACE TALKS (PGH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehmE0gasSZY

JUICY (NYC)

BLANK SPELL
https://blankspell.bandcamp.com/

$10-$12
Ten bucks gets you 1 raffle ticket and entry to the gig
Eleven bucks gets you 2 raffle tickets and entry to the gig
Twelve bucks gets you 3 raffle tickets and entry to the gig

J20 BENEFIT BAR SERIES CONTINUES
think before you byob

Ask a klunk for address

Doors at 7
Sound at 8

Act a fool
Leave a fool

***A JIM SHOMO JOINT***

[April 27 from 7pm to 11pm]

 

Benefit Screening of Killing the Black Snake

  • April 3, 2017 8:28 pm

Submission

Come out, watch trouble and throw some ????for arrestees this wednesday. April 1 to 8 is a week of solidarity with everyone facing repression so let’s come together to learn and support each other. We’ll pass the hat to collect money for philly people arrested in DC protesting trump’s inauguration. Killing the Black Snake is a short documentary about the fight against the dakota access pipeline being built through sacred Sioux land in north dakota.

[April 5th from 5pm to 8pm at LAVA Space 4134 Lancaster Ave]

Call to Action: Camp White Pine to Resist the Mariner East 2 Pipeline in Pennsylvania

  • March 30, 2017 9:20 am

from Earth First! Newswire

March 18 rally against the Mariner East 2 pipeline at Raystown Lake in Huntingdon, PA. Photo by Angela Vogel

As the seasons begin to change, something’s stirring in the mountains and valleys of Northern Appalachia.

With construction season upon us, there’s a call for land defenders and water protectors to join the growing resistance to pipelines and fracking infrastructure across the region. In the Susquehanna Valley of so-called Pennsylvania, Camp White Pine is digging in our heels to fight the Mariner East 2 pipeline, and invites you to come join us. Exactly a year after tree-sitters successfully interfered with the completion of tree-clearing along the pipeline route in Huntingdon County, we are once again confronting Sunoco Logistics, the same company responsible in part for the Dakota Access pipeline across Sioux territory in North and South Dakota. The Mariner East 2 is a 350+ mile long pipeline project, comprised of two new pipelines starting in southeastern Ohio, and running through northern West Virginia and across the length of Pennsylvania. These lines will carry natural gas liquids (NGLs) like butane, ethane, and propane to an export facility along the Delaware River in Marcus Hook, PA.

Resistance to the Mariner East 2 is spreading, with impacted residents and organizers working in communities all along the proposed route. Here in Huntingdon, work has already begun at Raystown Lake, the largest lake entirely within Pennsylvania state borders, where Sunoco intends to use a horizontal directional drill to bore underneath and lay the pipe. Sunoco Logistics and its subcontractors have no regard for the beauty of Appalachia, the preservation of its diverse ecosystems and rich culture. They care not for the people of the Lower Susquehanna. We at Camp White Pine are here to stop the Mariner East 2 pipeline. If you have a passion for fighting energy extraction and infrastructure and believe in preserving the forests and rivers of Appalachia, come and join us in the valley this spring and summer.

Get in touch with us:
whitepineresist[at]riseup.net
resistsunocopa.com
facebook.com/resistsunocopa