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
Saturdays 2PM – 3:30 PM starting February 24th at Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center
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.
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.
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
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 #00455723
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.
No pipelines. No borders. No genocide.
Submission
We hung up banners over the Schuylkill Expressway condemning BlackRock for their investment in both the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Elbit Systems.
Free Palestine wheatpaste in West Philly
Submission
We put up wheatpaste posters around West Philly. Original art can be found here:
https://justseeds.org/graphic/settlers-fuck-off-stop-the-annexation-of-palestine/
https://justseeds.org/graphic/palestine-will-be-free-graphic-care-package-2/
