from Scenes
map of cop cities in the 50 states
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/
Philadelphia Area Weapons Manufactures and Facilities
Submission
The United States is the single largest manufacturer and distributor of armaments in the world. This means weapons producing facilities are all around us, yet seldom do anti-war/anti-colonial movements identify and target the private companies that profit and enable these wars to be fought.
In this particular historical moment, with a years-long land war in Ukraine depleting the global stockpile of munitions and armaments, any disruption to the supply chain related to the production and distribution of armaments and ammunition in the United States has an immediate and real world impact on the ability of forces to drop bombs, fire rockets, deploy mines or bombard with artillery.
Movements attempting to disrupt the live-streamed genocide by Israeli forces in Gaza for over the last hundred days have periodically managed to identify and disrupt the flow of arms from the United States to Israel by targeting facilities or blockading infrastructure such as ports.
In the spirit of free people’s taking matters into their own hands, of autonomous direct action and a refusal to wait for permission, salvation or the intervention of a higher power, we offer the following list of local area arms manufacturers.
As with anything you come across on the internet, we urge groups and individuals to do their own research and reconnaissance prior to engaging in any action.
Day and Zimmermann (D&Z)
- 87th largest defense company
- Headquartered at 1500 Spring Garden St, Philadelphia PA, 19130
- Family owned company that operates several major US Army ammunition plants, producing 155mm artillery rounds, 120mm tank rounds, mines, hand grenades and more. Does private security for US Embassy in Jerusalem.
- Parent company of American Ordinance LLC, Kansas LLC, SOC, Mason & Hanger
L3 Harris
- L3 Harris is the ninth largest defense corporation
- Philadelphia location:
- 13500 Roosevelt Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19116
Leonardo
- 11th-largest defense company
- Philadelphia location:
- 3076 Red Lion Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19114
Boeing
- Fifth largest defense company in the world by revenue.
- Philadelphia location:
- 300 Industrial Highway, Ridley Park, PA.
- 300 Industrial Highway, Ridley Park, PA.
Ghost Robotics
- Maker of weaponized robotic dogs
- 3401 Grays Ferry Ave Bldg 200 (2nd floor), Philadelphia, PA 19146
- 150 Rouse Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19112
Action Manufacturing Co.
- Bristol Facility (Production and Testing)
- 190 Rittenhouse Circle, Bristol, PA 19007 (20.5 miles from Philadelphia)
- Atglen Facility (Loading Facility)
- 500 Bailey Crossroads Rd, Atglen, PA 19310
Elbit Systems of America (Aydin Displays, Birdsboro, PA)
- Aydin Displays (https://www.aydindisplays.com/), an Elbit Systems of America company
- 1 Riga Ln, Birdsboro, PA 19508
- Makes ruggedized displays for military application
- Elbit systems is an Israeli arms manufacturer with operations in the US and contracts with Homeland Security for US Border security. It is the target of an international campaign by Palestine Action
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems
- Runs the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, producing 155mm artillery casings and 120mm mortar casings
https://www.gd-ots.com/munitions/artillery/metal-parts/ - 156 Cedar Ave, Scranton, PA 1850
Lockheed Martin
- World’s top defense company by revenue
- Philadelphia-area locations:
- 459 Kennedy Drive, Archbald, PA 18403
- 199 Borton Landing Rd, Moorestown, NJ 08057
- 6000 Midlantic Dr, Mt Laurel Township, NJ 08054 (
- 230 Mall Blvd, King of Prussia, PA 19406
- 1021 W 8th Ave, King of Prussia, PA 19406
- 11 Federal St, Camden, NJ
- 3 Executive Campus, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
- 459 Kennedy Drive, Archbald, PA 18403
BAE Systems
- Seventh-largest military contractor.
- Philadelphia-area location:
- 8000 Midlantic Dr # 700N, Mt Laurel Township, NJ 08054
Raytheon/RTX
- Second-top defense company in the world by revenue
- Philadelphia-area location
- 8000 Midlantic Dr # 201N, Mt Laurel Township, NJ 08054
Informality, Anarchy, and the Black Radical Tradition
Submission
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
