from Instagram
Continued solidarity with the #prisonstrike at 21st and Walnut
Fuck Prisons Graffiti in Center City
Demand the Impossible! : A Radical Manifesto
from Facebook
Join us for a book signing and discussion with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Bill Ayers to celebrate the release of Bill’s latest book, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto.
In an era defined by mass incarceration, endless war, economic crisis, catastrophic environmental destruction, and a political system offering more of the same, radical social transformation has never been more urgent. We must imagine a world beyond what this rotten system would have us believe is possible.
In critiquing the world around us, insurgent educator and activist Bill Ayers uncovers cracks in the system, raising our sights for radical change, and envisioning strategies for building a movement to create a more humane, balanced, and peaceful world.
[October 24 from 7pm to 9pm at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
from Facebook
An exploration of the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society…
Book signing and discussion with Peter Frase, author of Four Futures: Life After Capitalism.
Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism and extermininsm might actually entail.
Could the current rise of the real-life robocops usher in a world that resembles Ender’s Game? And sure, communism will bring an end to material scarcities and inequalities of wealth—but there’s no guarantee that social hierarchies, governed by an economy of “likes,” wouldn’t rise to take their place. A whirlwind tour through science fiction, social theory and the new technologies are already shaping our lives, Four Futures is a balance sheet of the socialisms we may reach if a resurgent Left is successful, and the barbarisms we may be consigned to if those movements fail.
[October 19 from 7pm to 9pm at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]
Something’s Missing Here… A Leif Erikson Day Reportback
From Philly Antifa
The stage was set. A rainy morning broke through to a sunny brisk afternoon, but Boathouse Row along Kelly Drive was still nearly deserted. A few die-hard joggers and bikers raced by. Philly PD was there; they even brought two swat vans and a paddy wagon. You know we were there. Around 30 Anti-Fascists from Philly and the immediate surrounding area braved the weather and cops to let Keystone United, also known as the Keystone State “Skinheads,” know that they are not welcome in Philadelphia. We ate soup provided by Food Not Bombs – Affinity (thanks again), chatted, and waited.
For most of the nearly 10 years, it was a similar scene. But this time, there was something missing. Everyone there was attractive. No one was yelling. There was no idiotic collection of flags from European Countries waving in the wind. Slowly, it dawned on us: they weren’t coming.
IGDCAST: Building an Anti-Fascist Fighting Force in PA and Shutting Down the NSM
from It’s Going Down
Download and Listen to the Podcast Here
On this episode of the IGDCAST, we talk with Central PA Antifa, a network of friends and crews across Pennsylvania that has begun to organize against a variety of fascist groups which have been operating in the area for several decades. This episode is also the second podcast on the subject of the white working-class and building up organizations, campaigns, and associations which not only create an anti-fascist and anti-racist pole within the white working-class, but also build bridges out to poor and working communities of color.
Central PA Antifa in this episode talks about their formation, which was pushed by decades of fascist and Neo-Nazi activity which have gained a foothold in the area and even lead to one member (Steve Smith) of the local group, Keystone State Skinheads, now known as Keystone United, or simply KSS, to become an elected member of the local Republican establishment. We also spend a lot of time talking about guns, gun culture, ISIS, police killings, and various ways that people could build within both the within poor and working white communities and in communities of color.
Neo-Nazi members of the Nationalist Socialist Movement (NSM) attempt to flee from a barrage of rocks.
We then discuss the upcoming mobilization against the National Socialist Movement (NSM), which is going to take place at the state capitol of Pennsylvania on November 5th in Harrisburg. Anti-fascists from across the East Coast and beyond are coming out to thrown down against the NSM and local organizers are mobilizing to have legal, medical, and tactical support ready and on the ground. In short, November 5th is shaping up to be an important mobilization for anarchists and anti-fascists, and the topics discussed in this podcast will hopefully inspire wide discussion and dialog leading up to the event.
Music: Ceschi and Cistem Failure
More info on November 5th mobilization here and here.
Zero Thrill Show
from Anarchadelphia
Have you heard of this fundraiser for children of deceased cops and firefighters called the “Hero Thrill Show?” It’s beautiful! A bunch of leather-daddy’s get dressed up in cop uniforms to do antiquated, homoerotic motorcycle tricks, mocking the outwardly hetero-normative, patriarchal, and (at times) down right homophobic police force. And calling these violent, sometimes murderous thugs “heroes” while claiming the community can trust them? It’s a nice touch. The group of men holding hands while straddling one or more bikes being called thrilling is so hilarious that I can’t believe any one would be so mistaken as to take it seriously.
Have they seen the neighborhood kids doing wheelies on dirt bikes? Sure, the kids have the advantage of illegality to make things more exciting, but their tricks are still be more fun to watch, otherwise.
And bringing the firefighters in on the mockery seems worthwhile enough, though I’m fairly neutral on the subject of “fire pigs,” as some call them, since they haven’t been putting out our fires (mostly because we haven’t really been setting any, unfortunately).
As the laughing grows tiresome, though, I’m reminded of the good cause of raising college money for these kids who may have had a 40% chance of witnessing, or even suffering, abuse in their household perpetrated by the parent who’s death we’re celebrating. Certainly they didn’t choose to be born to a cop, and the promoters don’t even inquire as to whether the child suffered at the hands of the officer, opposing the commonly accusatory retaliations against abuse survivors by the law.
So as to conclude this review, I must say it was well worth my time to watch these pigs (no offense to actual pigs) maneuver their cruisers across empty asphalt.
Wait, wait wait…you don’t mean to tell me this event is actually serious?
Sam Dolgoff and the U.S Anarchist Movement: 1920s-1980s
from Facebook
A joint book talk by:
Anatole Dolgoff, author of Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff (AK Press, 2016)
and
Andrew Cornell, author of Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the 20th Century (University of California Press, 2016)
Sam Dolgoff, a house painter by trade, was at the center of American anarchism for seventy years. His political voyage began in the 1920s when he joined the Industrial Workers of the World. He rode the rails as an itinerant laborer, bedding down in hobo camps and mounting soapboxes in cities across the United States. Self-educated, he translated, edited, and wrote some of the most important books and journals of twentieth-century anti-authoritarian politics, including the most widely read collection of Mikhail Bakunin’s writings in English.
Yet the movement changed in important ways during Sam’s long tenure, as anarchists engaged with events and social forces such as the rise of the welfare state, atomic warfare, the black freedom struggle, and a succession of youth countercultures. Unruly Equality explains how anarchism evolved from the creed of poor immigrants militantly opposed to capitalism early in the twentieth century to one that today sees resurgent appeal among middle-class youth and foregrounds activism around ecology, feminism, and opposition to cultural alienation.
Bringing together first-hand recollections and archival research, Antaole Dolgoff and Andrew Cornell illuminate a crucial, but little known, chapter in the history of radical politics.
[October 15 from 7PM to 9PM at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]
Abolish Work! A Philosophical Exposition of Ergophobia
from Facebook
“Abolish Work! A Philosophical Exposition of Ergophobia” is a collection of pieces that centers around the modern workplace and conceptions of “work” and how we can best understand and ultimately resist them.”
Slackers, sloths and idlers are all welcome to this event that will host a discussion with editor Nick Ford. We’ll discuss the anti-work movement, some of its prominent writings and moments as well as contemporary anti-work struggles. The discussion will also center around AbolishWork.com and the lead up to this book. Finally, the book itself and its contents will be discussed in some detail with a Q&A at the end.
[October 12 from 7PM to 10PM at Wooden Shoe 704 South St]
The Wobblies in Their Heyday by Eric Chester
from Facebook
Book discussion and signing. Eric Chester is author of “The Wobblies in Their Heyday”(paperback edition just released by Levellers Press). This book was the subject of a symposium in ASR 64 argues that the federal government waged all-out war against the IWW because of the effectiveness of its organizing in strategic industries.
[October 11 from 7 to 9PM at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]
All Out Against KSS – Leif Erikson Day 2016
from Philly Antifa
When: Sunday, October 9th @ 11:00am
Where: Thorfin Karlsefeni Statue, Boathouse Row
It’s that time of the year again.
Every October, The Keystone State “Skinheads” attempt to hold a public rally along boathouse row in Fairmount Park. This rally is billed as a “Leif Erikson Day Celebration.” It is, in reality, the one time a year that KSS tries to hold a space in Philly, if only for an hour. This grants them some measure of legitimacy as “activists” and represents their last foothold of a street presence in Philadelphia. They have encountered opposition most of the past 10 years. Last year, in order to avoid Anti-Fascists, KSS held their event in the middle of the night after announcing they would be in the park at noon.
Antifa Philadelphia intends to be in Fairmount Park on October 9th, Leif Erikson Day. We will gather at the Thorfin Karlsfeni statue on Boathouse row and rally against Racism, Colonialism, and KSS organizing in our city and state. We are calling on all Anti-Racists and Anti-Fascists to join us in confronting KSS and showing them that they are (still) not welcome in Philadelphia.
FLAWLESS 8: America WAS NVR GR8
from Facebook
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[October 8 from 10pm to 2:30am at Fancy House]
Call For Renewed Actions In Solidarity With The Prison Strike, October 15-22
Submission
It hardly seems necessary to summarize what has gone down inside U.S. prisons since September 9th. Hunger strikes, work stoppages, and riots have spread throughout the country on a scale that we likely aren’t even fully aware of yet. Some uprisings appeared took us by surprise, such as in several Florida prisons, while others presumably grew from recent organizing endeavors on the inside, such as at Kinross in Michigan or Holman in Alabama. By rough estimates, over 20,000 prisoners were involved in some way. That’s huge.
On the outside, solidarity burned so brightly all over the world. Banner drops, graffiti slogans, noise demonstrations and more showed that we had the backs of all who would partake in the strike. It is worth noting however that the vast majority of this took place the first weekend of the strike. But this prison strike—and the struggle against prisons more broadly—is about more than a day or a week. It didn’t start on September 9th and it isn’t ending any time soon. Some prisoners may return to work while others decide to stop working for the first time. It’s easier when there is a definitive date to take action on, to build momentum towards, but that’s not going to be enough.
Therefore, we would like to offer a call for renewed actions in solidarity with the prison strike and the struggle against prison society. Right now many are organizing anti-repression campaigns for striking prisoners and that is of course very necessary and not nearly as exciting work. But it would be a mistake to conceive of this struggle in a linear fashion—that is to say, a single wave where we demonstrate as it crests and write letters as it crashes. How many prisoners hadn’t heard about the strike until after it had started? How many knew but didn’t think people would actually be there to support them? Three weeks after the start of the strike, inmates in Turbeville, South Carolina rebelled against a guard and took over their dorm. How can we stop while inmates are still risking their lives for freedom?
We propose the week of October 15th – 22nd for a concentration of actions to remind everyone locked up by the State that we will always have their back. Once again, it is important to take these dates with a grain of salt. No one’s going to judge you if you take action on October 23rd, or in November, or even in 2017. Neither should anyone sit on their hands waiting for the 15th to get going. New Year’s Eve should also be kept in mind, which has traditionally seen noise demonstrations outside of prisons every year, despite being an equally arbitrary date.
“When times seem slow and uneventful we let ourselves stagnate, but imagination and revolt are like muscles: the less we use them the weaker they become. We can push back the boredom of less eventful times and point towards insurrection. Solidarity actions and struggling on our own timelines is a way we can create momentum and tension when there isn’t much.”
– “Our Own Timelines” Anathema, Vol 2 Issue 6
It is undeniable that many comrades exist outside of realities where organizing a protest or noise demonstration is tenable. Many of us are still searching for a few like-minded comrades, let alone attempting to bring out a crowd. There are still opportunities to act, whether it is a one or two person team dropping a banner or putting up posters, or hosting a letter writing or informational event that can help connect future accomplices. It certainly can never be overstated how important writing letters of support and calling in to prisons is in and of itself, but why pass on an opportunity to build our capacity?
If nothing else, we should all feel ashamed that the most active city in terms of U.S. prison strike solidarity actions is Athens, Greece. They already have such a head start but we can at least give them a bit of challenge, can’t we?
– Some Restless Uncontrollables
Poster (11×17) https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/o1522-tabloid-2.pdf
Poster (8.5×11) https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/o1522-letter-1.pdf
Image https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/o1522-sq.jpg
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from https://itsgoingdown.org/call-renewed-actions-solidarity-prison-strike-october-15-22/
Graffiti for Disappeared People in Mexico
From Instagram
Sidewalk graffiti outside the Mexican Consulate calling for justice for the thousands of people disappeared, including 43 students.
Mobile phone security Lab by Radicante.Media
from Facebook
Once again the Digital Self Defense Series is here, this time Mobile Phone Security Lab. Come and learn how to secure your conversations over your phone device. Let’s have a discussion about the tool that you carry everywhere with you, how this device tracks your data, your friends, locations, ect. Then let’s do a hands on lab to try tools to protect your data and your compxs. Encryption + Signal + Orbot + IMSI catchers and more! //// Una vez mas ya esta aqui La Serie Auto Defensa Digital, esta vez para hablar de Seguridad en Telefonos Mobiles. Ven y aprende como tener conversaciones mas seguras en tu dispositivo telefonico. Tengamos una discusion sobre esa herramienta que llevas contigo a todas partes, como este dispositivo rastrea tus datos, a tus amigxs, lugares que visitas, etc. Luego vamos a la parte manos a la obra en el Laboratorio para probar herramientas para protegerte y a tus compxs. Encriptacion + Signal + Orbot + IMSI catchers y mucho mas!!
[October 5 from 7pm to 9pm at A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave]
