The Ex-Worker

On August 26th, riot police under orders from the newly elected right-wing government stormed and evicted four squatted social centers in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, Greece, in a serious attack on both precarious migrants and the anarchist and anti-authoritarian movements. In response, Greek anarchists have organized assemblies and demonstrations, while solidarity efforts have poured out from across the world. Both shaken and inspired by these events, the Ex-Worker podcast has emerged from hibernation to ask anarchists in Exarchia what's going on and what needs to be done. This episode explores the situation in Exarchia through three interviews with anarchist residents of the renowned radical neighborhood. The first is an audio version of "The New War on Immigrants and Anarchists in Greece," published on the CrimethInc. blog on August 28th, which gives an in-depth analysis of the evictions with historical context and insight into the dynamics of the Greek anarchist movement, supplemented by an excerpt from the 2015 piece "Syriza Can't Save Greece." The second is a long discussion with a squatter from the Lelas Karagianni 37 squat in Exarchia, the oldest squat in Greece and a central hub for assemblies and anarchist organizing in Athens; it touches on the role of the media and the previous Syriza regime in paving the way to this wave of attacks; the anarchist movement's strategy for regaining the initiative from the state; and the significance of international solidarity. The third and shortest interview with the Void Network reports back on the September 14th anti-repression demonstration in Athens and reflects on the prospects for ongoing resistance. Tune in to learn more about this critical struggle to defend freedom and autonomy in an inspiring enclave of radical experimentation. {September 18th, 2019} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:01} The New War on Immigrants and Anarchists in Greece: Intro {4:25} Syriza Can't Save Greece (2015) {6:08} The New War on Immigrants and Anarchists in Greece: Interview {17:17} Lelas Karagianni 37 Squat: Interview {41:21} Athens Indymedia Call for September 14 Demonstration {1:23:02} Void Network Interview {1:24:04} Clara's Closing Motivational Speech {1:35:00} Conclusion {1:37:36} In this episode, we present an audio version of "The New War on Immigrants and Anarchists in Greece: An Interview with an Anarchist in Exarchia" and an excerpt from "Syriza Can't Save Greece: Why There's No Electoral Exit From the Crisis", both which originally appeared on the CrimethInc. blog. We interview a participant from the Lelas Karagianni 37 squat in Exarchia. Here is their "Solidarity Will Win" statement; a video promoting the September 14th demonstration in Athens; some photos from the September 14th demo; the Statement of the Anarchist Political Organization Against the Repressive Campaign of the State, and the No Pasarán! poster. We also interview a participant from the Void Network in Athens; you can read the "Solidarity to squats and all spaces of struggle- ASSEMBLY Announcement" from their website. To stay up to date on developments in Exarchia, consult Athens Indymedia or (although we at the Ex-Worker stubbornly insist on discouraging you from using Facebook) this public "Exarchia" Facebook group. Check out this long interview with another anarchist from Exarchia released through the It's Going Down podcast, which offers more in-depth history and contemporary analysis of the neighborhood and the Greek anarchist movement.

Welcome to Episode 11, the final installment of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast's serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This episode concludes the book with personal reflections about the author's own journey in and out of the desert and the unavoidable links that bind all of us across all borders. To become a real force for change, those who would act in solidarity must overcome the limits of privilege politics and guilt, understanding our activities as fighting for our own lives and dismantling the illusion of separation between ourselves and others. What links migrants, solidarity workers, and all people struggling to survive amidst the disorienting nightmare of postmodern civilization is the pursuit of dignity—a sentiment beautifully expressed in a message sent by Rachel Corrie, an American solidarity worker in occupied Palestine, to her mother in 2003 just weeks before she was murdered by an Israeli bulldozer while attempting to stop a home demolition. Two final stories—one chilling and one touching—illustrate the astonishing peril of the desert even for experienced travelers, and the solace that unexpected alliances with creatures of the desert can provide for migrants and solidarity workers alike. Ultimately, the book concludes, to end death in the desert, to rediscover our own humanity, and to have any hope of our survival on this planet, there is one thing in common that we all must do—find our way back home. {June 13th, 2019} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Who Will Tear Down That Second Border With You? {0:01} Introduction {0:54} Solidarity {1:12} Story #1: Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death {3:38} Dignity {7:18} Rachel Corrie on Dignity {10:52} Story #2: Luther the Tomcat {11:14} Home {16:07} All Our Relations {19:46} Dedication {21:20} In Memoriam {21:36} Conclusion {21:48} Breaking News: the felony trial of No More Deaths volunteer Scott Warren has ended in a hung jury. While this means that the government can still bring new charges against him, for the time being it is a strong victory against the state's effort to criminalize humanitarian aid for migrants. Read statements by Scott and his lawyer here. Content advisory: this episode includes a discussion of sexual violence from 4:48–5:25. Note: For this audiobook, we will not provide full transcripts of the text of each episode as we do for The Ex-Worker or The Hotwire. If you want to read along, you can find the book in PDF. This week's episode covers pages 197 to 208. You can check out our poster diagramming the North American border regime and immigrant solidarity stickers. Over the summer, the Ex-Worker Podcast collective will begin work on our next audio book project, which will begin to appear in the months to come—stay tuned! If you have any suggestions or feedback about this audiobook or other Ex-Worker projects, get in touch at podcast[at]crimethinc[dot]com. Thank you for listening!

Welcome to Episode 10 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast's serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. Over the past two months, we've explored the ins and outs of irregular migration across the US/Mexico border. Where does it leave us? As the crises produced by climate change and economic exploitations intensify across the world, revolutions turn in to wars, which beget tyranny, which in turn provoke revolutions. In this climate of escalating chaos, what can we do? This episode explores the meaning of revolution in the twenty-first century, looking at the forms it has taken and assessing what it would take to defend it today. The Zapatista struggle offers one of the most durable and promising models of autonomy we've seen in recent decades—yet the limits it has encountered point towards unavoidable contradictions facing those who wish to avoid warfare and bloodshed but also cannot defend their achievements against remorseless foes without the force of arms. A harrowing story about the siege of San Juan Copala, an indigenous community whose effort to secure autonomy from the Mexican state was brutally crushed, illustrates the agonizing dilemma that faces would-be revolutionaries today. This episode offers an unflinching look at the perils confronting those who would defy these global systems driving displacement and death, setting the stage for our final installment next week on solidarity and coming home. {June 6th, 2019} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:01} From East to West {0:14} Chaos and Order {6:25} Story 1: The Parable of the River {10:35} Transformation {16:25} Frederick Douglass on Struggle {16:35} Revolution {17:42} A Hard Lesson {20:40} Story 2: The Siege of San Juan Copala {27:10} A Last Word From Malcolm X {39:50} Conclusion {40:04} Note: For this audiobook, we will not provide full transcripts of the text of each episode as we do for The Ex-Worker or The Hotwire. If you want to read along, you can find the book in PDF. This week's episode covers pages 174 to 196. You can check out our poster diagramming the North American border regime and immigrant solidarity stickers. Stay tuned next week for the final episode in the series—Episode 11: From East to West, Part II: Solidarity, and Home.

Welcome to Episode 9 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast's serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. The border doesn't end at the border: the violent regime of citizenship constrains and ruins lives throughout the north, as a chilling story of a narrow escape from death makes clear. Yet this ongoing migration constitutes, against all odds, a powerful form of resistance that is changing the United States in unpredictable ways. This installment begins to explore what it might take to actually end death in the desert—which would also mean dismantling the global systems of exploitation, colonialism, white supremacy, and state power that lie at its roots. We can take inspiration and strategic guidance from some of the stories that appear in this episode, ranging from an extraordinary migrant whose ingenuity and determination helped him to survive multiple crossings against unthinkable odds to a team of civil disobedience activists whose simple action managed to briefly grind part of the migrant detention industrial complex to a halt. Listening won't offer a single path, program, or tactic that's guaranteed to work, but rather a way of thinking about resistance at multiple points of intervention that can start wherever you are. Whatever action you take, it's time to take sides. -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:01} Immigrants {0:43} Story #1: A Solidarity Offering {2:04} Migration as Resistance {3:42} Story #2: The Fragility of a Life {7:53} John Brown's Prophecy {11:33} Choosing Sides {12:00} Where to Start {17:41} Story 3: A Real American Hero {20:17} Resistance: Points of Intervention {28:35} Story 4: Shutting Down Operation Streamline {31:14} "Live to be Free…" {37:55} Conclusion {38.35} Note: For this audiobook, we will not provide full transcripts of the text of each episode as we do for The Ex-Worker or The Hotwire. If you want to read along, you can find the book in PDF. This week's episode covers pages 153 to 173. You can check out our poster diagramming the North American border regime and immigrant solidarity stickers. Stay tuned next week for Episode 10: From East to West, Part I - Chaos and Order, and Transformation.

Welcome to Episode 8 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast's serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This installment continues to explore the reality of border policy by taking a closer look at the agency that enforces it, describing the atrocities that its agents perpetrate and their mindsets to justify it. The Border Patrol is merely one of the largest and most vicious players in a game that brings lucrative profits to a host of players on both sides of the border, at the expense of the vulnerable migrants who are driven into the desert. The episode concludes with a discussion of the environmental landscape of the desert itself and a poignant reflection on its harsh beauty, envisioning the healing of the land when one day it will no longer be scarred by borders. {May 22, 2019} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:01} Story #1: Fleeing the Dogs {0:46} Assata Shakur: On Morality and Power {4:32} The Border Patrol {4:49} Story #2: The Hills Have Eyes {10:30} The Game {12:25} The Desert {14:27} Story #3: Under the Blue Sky and the Merciless Sun {16:02} Conclusion {18:52} Important Action Alert: No More Deaths is asking that supporters around the US take a moment this week through May 24th to call the US Attorney's office in Arizona to demand that the government drop all charges against volunteer Scott Warren, who faces felony charges for humanitarian aid work in the desert. Please follow this link for contact information and a script to follow when you call. It will only take a moment, but will be an important gesture of solidarity. Please do it! For this audiobook, we will not provide full transcripts of the text of each episode as we do for The Ex-Worker or The Hotwire. If you want to read along, you can find the book in PDF. This week's episode covers pages 140 to 152. Episodes 7 and 8 comprise Designed to Kill, which was originally released as a 'zine in 2011. You can read or print the zine version here. You can check out our poster diagramming the North American border regime and immigrant solidarity stickers. Stay tuned next week for Episode 9: The North.

Welcome to Episode 7 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast's serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. The Border Patrol, with its swollen budget and lavish technologies, clearly has the technical capacity to stop most, if not all, traffic across the border, yet their behavior seems to be at odds with their stated objective. This installment investigates the actual goal of border policy—which is not to end "illegal immigration," but to control and manage it. While preventing this migration altogether would have catastrophic effects on the US economy, using selective enforcement to funnel traffic into increasingly remote areas while militarizing and hyper-policing certain areas maintains the labor supply while ratcheting up the profits to be made at every step in the process. A variety of stories—some heartbreaking, some hilarious—illustrate how this approach to enforcement impacts the lives of everyday people as they attempt to travel north into the United States. This episode identifies the various parties—both Republicans and Democrats, private prison and tech corporations, Mexican officials and cartels—who benefit from this counter-intuitive and cruel border policy… while reminding us of its horrific cost in human lives. {May 15, 2019} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: "Answer the Question of Who Benefits or Profits Most…" {0:01} Introduction {0:24} Designed to Kill: Who Benefits? {0:53} Story #1: Lost in the Desert {3:01} The Real Objective of the Border Patrol {4:27} Why No One Really Wants to Stop "Illegal Immigration" {6:20} The Politics and Economics of Border Policy {10:03} Story #2: Desperation {20:00} The Profits of Border Militarization {23:35} Dangers Along the Trail {28:00} Story #3: Good Guides and Bad Guides {30:59} The Unholy Trinity: Governments, Corporations, Cartels {33:07} Story #3: Nacho, Chucho, and Don Bigotes {35:32} Conclusion {42:54} Important Action Alert: No More Deaths is asking that supporters around the US take a moment this week and next week to call the US Attorney's office in Arizona to demand that the government drop all charges against volunteer Scott Warren, who faces felony charges for humanitarian aid work in the desert. Please follow this link for contact information and a script to follow when you call. It will only take a moment, but will be an important gesture of solidarity. Please do it! Content advisory: in the section "Dangers Along the Trail," beginning around 28:00, there is a brief discussion of the forms of violence, including sexual assault, to which migrants are vulnerable when crossing through the desert. For this audiobook, we will not provide full transcripts of the text of each episode as we do for The Ex-Worker or The Hotwire. If you want to read along, you can find the book in PDF. This week's episode covers pages 115 to 140. Episodes 7 and 8 comprise Designed to Kill, which was originally released as a 'zine in 2011. You can read or print the zine version here. You can check out our poster diagramming the North American border regime and immigrant solidarity stickers. Stay tuned next week for Episode 8: Designed to Kill, Part II – The Border Patrol, The Game, and The Desert.

Welcome to Episode 6 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast's serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This installment investigates the three-tiered border and the process of crossing it, focusing on the places where the most deaths occur—southern Arizona and South Texas. The story of Arivaca, a small community of ranchers and hippies, shows how state arrogance and vigilante brutality turned the population towards solidarity with migrants. The complex politics of the Tohono O'odham reservation at Komkch'ed e Wah 'osithk (Sells) reflect the fraught relationship between migration, colonialism, and the challenges facing indigenous communities today. The barren deserts and army base lands around Ajo mark some of the most grim and hazardous terrain of the entire border, while the recent surge in deaths around Falfurrias indicates the urgent need for further solidarity. Explanation of the actual mechanics of crossing the border, and the terrible perils faced by vulnerable migrants along the way, is supplemented by a poignant story about two flawed heroes of the desert. This episode paints a vivid picture of where and how migration into the United States actually happens, and the dangers stalking every step across the harsh landscape of the borderlands. {May 8, 2019} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: If You Hear the Dogs, Keep Going {0:01} Introduction {0:52} The Border {1:11} Arivaca {6:26} Story 1: El Pelón and Crazy Mark {14:05} Komkch'ed e Wah 'osithk (Sells) {19:22} Ajo {24:05} Falfurrias {26:40} Story 2: Calling 911 {34:08} The Crossing {36:23} Conclusion {39:55} Please take a moment to read this powerful article from the Intercept on the prosecution of No More Deaths volunteer Scott Warren: "Bodies in the Borderlands". Note: For this audiobook, we will not provide full transcripts of the text of each episode as we do for The Ex-Worker or The Hotwire. If you want to read along, you can find the book in PDF. This week's episode covers pages 90 to 113. You can check out our poster diagramming the North American border regime and immigrant solidarity stickers. Stay tuned next week for Episode 7: Designed to Kill, Part I – Who Benefits?.

Happy May Day, everyone! Welcome to Episode 5 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast's serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. Having discussed the political and economic forces that drive migration north, this week's installment examines how people get from Central America to the US/Mexico border. The routes vary in risk and cost, and are stratified depending on a traveler's wealth and nationality, from navigating the expensive and infuriating process of attempting to secure a visa to braving La Bestia, the notoriously dangerous freight trains heading north. Some hazard the northeastern route to Reynosa through Zetas cartel territory, while many traverse the northwestern route to Altar through Sinaloa cartel lands and towards the Sonoran desert. The "unaccompanied minors crisis" of 2013–2014 serves as a case study for how the machinations of powerful states, cartels, and corporations can impact the lives of migrants. Understanding the dynamics of border crossing requires an in-depth look at the economics of the marijuana trade, concluding with a thought-provoking analysis of politics of drug legalization and an unflinching look at the customs and border patrol corruption that makes the trade possible. This episode reframes our understanding of the multi-stage process of migrating north and the power relations and economic imperatives that shape the experiences of migrants as they set off into the desert towards the United States. {May 1, 2019} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:01} L.A. Onda, "How To Stop a Wound From Bleeding" {0:13} The Trip {1:13} Story #1: Rethinking the "Unaccompanied Minors Crisis" {12:55} The Product: Capital {16:54} The Product: Labor {25:10} Conclusion {30:21} Note: For this audiobook, we will not provide full transcripts of the text of each episode as we do for The Ex-Worker or The Hotwire. If you want to read along, you can find the book in PDF. This week's episode covers pages 69 to 89. You can check out our poster diagramming the North American border regime and immigrant solidarity stickers. Stay tuned next week for Episode 6: The Border.

Welcome to Episode 4 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast's serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This week's installment continues the previous episode's exploration of the conditions south of the border that drive migration north by surveying the situation in the three countries of the "Northern Triangle." Guatemala's malnourished, heavily indigenous population languishes in poverty under oligarchic rule, the legacy of centuries of colonialism and a devastating civil war. Our narrator analyzes the numerous problems plaguing the country and examines the unfinished struggle for freedom and dignity that prompted the war, including its impact on global revolutionary imagination through its influence on the Zapatistas. The horrifying levels of violence in El Salvador trace their roots both to economic pressures and to US support for the former reactionary military regime during a bloody civil war. The section concludes with a hair-raising anecdote about the guerrilla movement's creative revenge against a genocidal army officer. A brief note on the profound dysfunction of Honduras, stemming from the structure of North American economy, is followed by a discussion of the tensions between these four Central American nations and their inhabitants. This episode rounds out our picture of the recent history of the region and the dynamics that push people from their homelands on the perilous trip towards the US/Mexico border. {April 24, 2019} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:01} Guatemala {0:35} Story #1: The Influence of the Guerrilla Movement {16:30} El Salvador {17:40} Story #2: Revenge at El Mozote {25:05} Honduras {28:07} Story #3: A Souvenir {30:52} Tensions {31:22} Conclusion {34:51} Note: For this audiobook, we will not provide full transcripts of the text of each episode as we do for The Ex-Worker or The Hotwire. If you want to read along, you can find the book in PDF. You can check out our poster diagramming the North American border regime and immigrant solidarity stickers. Stay tuned next week for Episode 5: The Trip and The Product.

Welcome to Episode 3 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast's serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This installment begins exploring the conditions south of the border that drive migration north by exploring the recent history and economy of Mexico. As NAFTA's "free trade" policies impoverished and displaced millions, border militarization altered previous patterns of seasonal migration and established a permanent undocumented underclass of millions in the United States. The author cuts through myths around the "drug war," helping to explain the complex web of players from the Sinaloa and Zetas cartels to the Mexican state and the social movements that contest them both—and how the situation might be transformed, if US drug and immigration policies changed. The episode concludes with an inspiring story of the determined and colorful resistance to state violence by the community of San Salvador Atenco. This episode provides a brief introduction to the fierce, many-sided conflicts across Mexico resulting from the actions of the US government and exacerbated by the Mexican state and cartels, but always contested by popular forces. {April 17, 2019} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:01} The South {0:25} Mexico: Labor, "Free Trade," and the Roots of Migration {1:25} Mexico: Cartels, the State, and the "Drug War" {9:24} Story #1: San Salvador Atenco {23:21} Conclusion {26:34} Note: For this audiobook, we will not provide full transcripts of the text of each episode as we do for The Ex-Worker or The Hotwire. If you want to read along, you can find the book in PDF. You can check out our poster diagramming the North American border regime and immigrant solidarity stickers. Stay tuned next week for Episode 4: The South, Part 2 – Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.

Welcome to Episode 2 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast's serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This installment continues last week's introduction by Defining Terms—just what do we mean by the border, migrants, refugees, solidarity workers, and other key phrases? To begin the long section describing movement From South to North, The Aftermath lays out an unflinching view of the 500-year history of colonization, slavery, and genocide on which today's capitalist economy and border regimes are based, followed by a harrowing tale of survival by a desert migrant. The Travelers lays out the forces pushing migrants from Mexico and the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras) north towards the United States, illustrating the economics of the situation through a moving story in which migrants and solidarity workers work out the mathematics of international exploitation together. This chapter demystifies the basic dynamics at play in North American migration and evocatively illustrates their human cost. {April 10, 2019} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: The United States Is War {0:01} Introduction {0:22} Defining Terms {0:42} The Aftermath {4:24} Story #1 {7:45} The Travelers {10:06} Story #2 {17:11} Conclusion {20:56} Note: For this audiobook, we will not provide full transcripts of the text of each episode as we do for The Ex-Worker or The Hotwire. If you want to read along, you can find the book in PDF. This week we heard discussion about intervention in a Border Patrol stop in Tucson, AZ and a roundup of resistance to border wall construction and ICE around the country. You can check out our poster diagramming the North American border regime and immigrant solidarity stickers. Stay tuned next week for Episode 3: The South, Part 1 - Mexico.

The Ex-Worker Podcast Collective is kicking off the serialized release of our first full audiobook, No Wall They Can Build: A Guide to Borders and Migration Across North America. We've divided this riveting first person account of life and death in the borderlands into eleven chapters, and over the next three months, we'll be releasing them in weekly installments each Wednesday. Today, you'll hear Episode 1: Introduction, which describes how the book was written by a solidarity worker along the US/Mexico border over years of trials and tribulations, and lays out a basic framework for understanding the global apartheid enforced by the border regime. You'll hear a heartbreaking story about the brutality of migrant detention, and an inspiring one about surviving the journey north against all odds. This episode sets the stage for the in-depth analysis and longer stories of the chapters to come. {April 3, 2019} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introducing the Border {0:01} Title and Front Matter {1:18} Dedication {2:02} Preface {2:11} Epigraph, from Mojado by Ricardo Arjona {3:37} Story #1 {4:35} Introduction {11:17} Story #2 {18:43} Epigraph, from Edward Abbey {20:44} Conclusion {21:08} Note: For this audiobook, we will not provide full transcripts of the text of each episode as we do for The Ex-Worker or The Hotwire. If you want to read along, you can find the book in PDF. Also, you can check out our poster diagramming the North American border regime and immigrant solidarity stickers. As we mentioned in our episode announcing the audiobook launch, the claim made in this episode that no volunteer with No More Deaths has ever been convicted of a crime for their humanitarian work in the desert, while true at the time the book was published, is no longer accurate. For the latest updates on the legal charges facing solidarity workers along the border, keep an eye on the No More Deaths legal defense campaign. If you're feeling inspired to take action, follow the latest from the #BlockTheWall network. You can also check out this interview by the Final Straw with Comunidad Colectiva, a North Carolina-based group doing rapid response anti-ICE organizing. Stay tuned next week for Episode 2: Defining Terms, The Aftermath, and The Travelers.

The Ex-Worker is back! Over the next three months, we will be releasing an audio version of CrimethInc.'s 2018 book, No Wall They Can Build: A Guide to Borders and Migration in North America, divided into eleven episodes released every week. In this short episode, we reflect on the evolution of the Ex-Worker podcast as a project, and set the scene for the forthcoming audiobook. In the year and a half since the book was released, much attention has focused on the US/Mexico border, and Trump's anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric have prompted widespread resistance. However, the crisis of raids, family separations, inhumane detention, and death and disappearance in the borderlands was in full swing during the Obama administration, and has roots stretching far back in the history of the United States. To provide context for what's been going on around the border since the book was published, a volunteer from the solidarity group No More Deaths joins us to talk about changes and continuities between the Obama and Trump eras, the impact of the administration's efforts to build a wall on communities around the border, updates on state repression against the group's volunteers, and the wave of resistance and solidarity building towards a world of free movement. Want to learn more? We'll be releasing the first installment of No Wall They Can Build later this week—stay tuned! {April 1, 2019} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: The Ex-Worker is Back! {0:01} Migration, Borders, and Resistance in the Trump Era {4:05} Interview with No More Deaths Volunteer {10:29} Conclusion {27:30} We'll be releasing an audiobook of No Wall They Can Build: A Guide to Borders and Migration in North America through eleven weekly episodes over the next three months. You can read the book in PDF or see the Spanish translation; also check out our poster diagramming the North American border regime and immigrant solidarity stickers. Take a moment to learn more about No More Deaths, including their legal defense campaign demanding that the charges be dropped against their volunteers and the [#WaterNotWalls campaign](http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/legal-defense-campaign/waternotwalls/) to ensure their ability to continue to provide humanitarian aid in the desert. Other organizations working to support migrants include Aguilas del Desierto (San Diego, CA), Florence Project, Mariposas Sin Fronteras (Tucson, AZ), People Helping People in the Border Zone (Arivaca, AZ), Protection Network Action Fund, Southside Workers Center (Tucson, AZ), South Texas Human Rights Center, and the Tohono O'odham Hemajkam Rights Network](https://www.facebook.com/tohrn520/). Some useful general resources about the border include the Radiolab podcast "Border Trilogy", the books Storming the Wall by Todd Miller and The Land of Open Graves by Jason DeLeon, and the Telemundo/Weather Channel documentary "The Real Death Valley". On "The Wall" and border militarization, see "America's Virtual Border Wall Is a 1,954-Mile-Long Money Pit", Tohono O'odham elder Ofelia Rivas's Censored News Live Video interview "Welcome to Honduras Migrant Caravan", and the books Operation Gatekeeper by Joseph Nevins and Border Games by Peter Andreas. - On conceptualizing interior checkpoints as an extension of The Wall, see "The 100 Mile Border Zone" by the ACLU, "Checkpoint America" by the Cato Institute, and "The Cost of Crossing" from the New York Times. On anti-immigrant border militias, see the Al-Jazeera article "Desert Hawks", the Southern Poverty Law Center Report "Investigating Deaths of Undocumented Migrants on the Border", and David Neiwart's book And Hell Followed with Her. On the Border Patrol, see the books Migra! by Kelly Lytle Hernandez and Border Patrol Nation by Todd Miller, and the documentary Disappeared: How US Border Patrol is Fueling a Missing Person's Crisis at the Border, part 1 and part 2.

It's our last episode of the season! We have a big report on the Yellow Vests movement in France, and how it shows the need to move beyond the loyal opposition of centrism versus fascism. We say fuck Thanksgiving some, fuck the border a lot, fuck border patrol even more, fuck the government, fuck pipelines, fuck Wal-Mart, but thanks so much to all our wonderful listeners. Stay anarchy. {November 28, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Intro {0:00} Headlines {0:48} Fuck Thanksgiving {5:00} Migrant caravan news and interview {7:20} Yellow Vests movement—fuck "apoliticism," fuck centrism, fuck fascism {21:10} Repression roundup {28:00} Next Week's News {35:30} Download 29:30 minutes long version. Upcoming events/demos/etc: November 30: Mass demonstrations against the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. November 29 - December 2: Anarchist Book Fair in Umea, Sweden Until December 7: There is a call for autonomous actions against the Laval Migrant Prison being built in Laval, Quebec, Canada. December 2: The 5th Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair will be held from 10am–6pm at San Francisco City College Mission Campus, located t 1125 Valencia Street. This year's theme is Fighting for the Air We Breathe and you can find out more at howardzinnbookfair.com. December 6: To mark the ten year anniversary of the death of Alexis Grigoropoulos, Greek anarchists and students are calling for occupations and student mobilizations throughout the county on December 6. December 9: A call by Stand Up to Racism and Unite Against Fascism to oppose a fascist march in London, England. Meet on Downing St, London at 11am. December 10: There's an international call from anarchists on four continents for a day of action against borders on December 10. The idea is to kick off the 10th of each month being an anti-border day of action. December 31: Worldwide noise demonstrations outside prisons, jails, and detention facilities to demonstrate support for those held captive inside. January 5–6: the Father Frost Against Putin Festival will take place again in Helsinki, Finland. The intention of the festival is for anarchists to be able to discuss the state of affairs in Russia and the ex-USSR while getting to meet other political activists without the roving eye of police or special service operations. January 15-February 15: The Caravana Wallmapu is a caravan of different autonomous and alternative media collectives from around Latin America and the world, that will be traveling for a month through Mapuche territory in Argentina and Chile to draw attention to the struggles, experiences and voices of the Mapuche people. Check out @carav_wallmapu January 25–26: BLACK FLAGS OVER BROOKLYN 2019 is a new anti-fascist, anti-racist extreme metal festival coming to the dark heart of Brooklyn, New York. Check out @blackflagsovrBK on Twitter to learn more. February 2: Flower United is calling for a large anti-racist mobilization in response to a planned white supremacist rally at Stone Mountain Park outside Atlanta, GA. Check out flowerunited.org for more info. February 23: the New York City Anarchist Mental Health Conference will be held in NYC. The one-day conference is for anarchist, anti-authoritarian, and anti-capitalist mental health care workers and students to skill-share, build community, and discuss how to infuse mental health work with anarchist values. Email [email protected] for more info. In response to the California fires, North Valley Mutual Aid is organizing with community members to provide support for those affected. They're currently asking for donations via their gofundme. Please also let them know if you have specific materials to donate or otherwise want to get involved on the ground; the Wallywood encampment is in Chico, California, in the Wal-Mart parking lot. And anyone from Paradise and the surrounding communities is encouraged to get in touch with ideas and needs to keep their efforts centered on those impacted directly who might not know their community is here to help in this manner. They can be reached at [email protected]. Check out North Shore Counter Info for developments on the Locke Street case in Hamilton, Ontario. The Unistoten Camp is in need of support to stop TransCanada from coming into their indigenous territory. They're asking people to come join the efforts, donate, and start solidarity campaigns! Visit unistoten.camp for more information. You can donate to the commissary of water protector Rattler through his support campaign, at freerattlernodapl.com or send him a letter at: Michael Markus 06280–073 FCI Sandstone FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION P.O. BOX 1000 SANDSTONE, MN 55072 Urgent call for a email/phone zap! Supporters of the Virgin Island 3 are imploring folks to help get them released from prison by pressuring the Governor to commute their sentences. Join with the Philly Anarchist Black Cross to help get them free. Because the Governor's term is ending, time is truly of the essence and

In our second to last episode of 2018, we bring you reports from the anti-fascist counter-demonstrations against right-wing rallies in Philadelphia and Portland. We also bring you a humble, frank letter from anti-fascists who have recently been doxxed in North Carolina. Mutual Aid efforts—organized and spontaneous—are popping up in response to the Camp Fire and to defend the migrant caravan in Tijuana from nationalist haters. From coast to coast, climbers get up in trees and ontop of pipeline construction equipment to defend forests. In Chile, a wave of revolt has spread after the police murder of 14-year-old Mapuche villager Camilo Catrillanca. There is already anti-anarchist repression ahead of the G20 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. {November 21, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Intro {0:00} Headlines {0:55} Reports from anti-fascist rallies in Philadelphia and Portland {10:10} Anti-fascists speak out about being doxxed {15:10} Revolt in Chile after police murder Camilo Catrillanca {21:20} Repression roundup {22:50} Next Week's News {29:40} Download 29:30 minutes long version. Upcoming events/demos/etc: November 24: there's a call out for an antifascist block to participate in the St Andrews Day antiracist march in Glasgow, Scotland. Gather at the Glasgow Green at 10:30 am. November 25 - December 1: A call for a week of action against the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 25–27 will have popular education and workshops from different groups; the 28 and 29 will feature a People's Summit, with day one at the Faculty of Social Science of the University of Buenos Aires, and day two in Plaza de los dos Congresos. November 30 is when the big street demonstration will take place. November 25: there will be a march from San Diego down to the border with Tijuana to meet the sanctuary caravans. Here's a link to the Facebook page. November 25: there's a call for a feminist demo against fascism in London on the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. Meet at 5pm on November 25th at BBC Portland Place in London, England. November 25: the Leimert Park Mutual Aid Organizing Committee, in Los Angeles, California, will hold their monthly anti-gentrification free store from 2 to 6pm at the Leimert Park Art Walk. November 26: A meeting](https://freedomnews.org.uk/london-callout-for-solidarity-with-russian-anti-fascists/) in London, England to plan solidarity events for January 19 in support of anti-fascists facing persecution in Russia. The meeting will take place at Mayday Rooms, located at 88 Fleet St. November 29 - December 2: Anarchists in Umea, Sweden are hosting their first ever bookfair! December 10: There's an international call from anarchists on four continents for a day of action against borders on December 10. The idea is to kick off the 10th of each month being an anti-border day of action. December 17(ish): in Brownsville, Texas, people are planning to Meet the Migrants at the Border, in greeting them food and love! This date is currently tentative, as it is unclear when the migrant caravan will actually arrive. Organizers point out that there are five other points of entry on the Texas border the migrant caravan may try, and are encouraging people to organize more events. Here's a link to their Facebook page. January 5–6: the Father Frost Against Putin Festival will take place again in Helsinki, Finland. The intention of the festival is for anarchists to be able to discuss the state of affairs in Russia and the ex-USSR while getting to meet other political activists without the roving eye of police or special service operations. February 23: the New York City Anarchist Mental Health Conference will be held in NYC. The one-day conference is for anarchist, anti-authoritarian, and anti-capitalist mental health care workers and students to skill-share, build community, and discuss how to infuse mental health work with anarchist values. Email [email protected] for more info. For beautiful Trans Day of Remembrance works of art available for free download, click here. In response to the California fires, North Valley Mutual Aid is organizing with community members to provide support for those affected. Some of what they're looking for includes funds, kitchen and first aid supplies (medical and emotional), clean-up and building materials, and organizing spaces. According to their website: "Please also let us know if you have specific materials to donate or otherwise want to get involved on the ground. And anyone from Paradise and the surrounding communities is encouraged to get in touch with ideas and needs to keep our efforts centered on those impacted directly who might not know their community is here to help in this manner." They can be reached at [email protected]. To find the best ways to support the migrant caravans travelling to the US-Mexico border, look up Commotion.World. They have lots of useful info—from listing the physical items that are needed, to who you can t

On the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, liberals and centrists are once more playing right into fascists' hands. Our feature this episode is a reading of the recent CrimethInc. op-ed "Take Your Pick: Law or Freedom; How 'Nobody Is above the Law' Abets the Rise of Tyranny," about the outrageously liberal demonstrations over Trump firing Jeff Sessions. We also interview an anarchist who was at the protest outside Tucker Carlson's home in Washington D.C. about what really happened there, Twitter's banning of anti-fascists, and why it's important to take the offensive in the struggle against fascism. Friday, November 9 was the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and we bring you a round up of fascist, anti-fascist, and centrist actions from the weekend. Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {November 14, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Intro {0:00} Headlines {0:55} Kristallnacht anniversary and #OutliveThem actions roundup {5:55} Interview about Tucker Carlson protest and liberal blowback {10:05} Take Your Pick: Law or Freedom; How 'Nobody Is above the Law' Abets the Rise of Tyranny {22:10} Repression roundup {32:45} Next Week's News {38:12} Download 29:30 minutes long version. Upcoming events/demos/etc: November 15: in London, England, there will be a queer dance party outside the Brazilian Embassy against Brazilian president elect Bolsonaro and to save the amazon. It will last from 5:30 PM until 8:30. November 16–18: School of the Americas Watch is hosting a border encuentro directly on the US/Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona and Sonora around the theme Dismantle Border Imperialism! November 16: in Portland, Oregon, there's a "We Won't Be Erased" demonstration against transphobia. Meet at 4:30 in the afternoon at City Hall, and follow @WontBeErasedPDX on twitter for more. November 17: In Philadelphia, the Pushback Campaign and anti-fascists are calling for those opposed to Nazis and Proud Boys to gather at 10 AM at the Independence Hall Visitor Center to oppose a planned white supremacist rally. November 17: Anti-fascists are also planning to oppose a misogynistic Patriot Prayer rally in Portland, Oregon. Rose City Antifa are calling for those opposed to rally at 1 PM on Saturday at Terry Schrunk Plaza. November 18: in Aachen, Germany at 3 PM, there is a demonstration planned against the political swing to the right and state repression. November 19: a demonstration against singularity and surveillance in Athens, Greece. Meet at Parko Eleutherias at 11:30 AM. November 25 - December 1: A call for a week of action against the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 25–27 will have popular education and workshops from different groups; the 28 and 29 will feature a People's Summit, with day one at the Faculty of Social Science of the University of Buenos Aires, and day two in Plaza de los dos Congresos. November 30 is when the big street demonstration will take place. November 26 in London, England: A meeting](https://freedomnews.org.uk/london-callout-for-solidarity-with-russian-anti-fascists/) to plan solidarity events for January 19 in support of anti-fascists facing persecution in Russia. The meeting will take place at Mayday Rooms, located at 88 Fleet St. December 10: There's an international call from anarchists on four continents for a day of action against borders on December 10. The idea is to kick off the 10th of each month being an anti-border day of action. December 17(ish): in Brownsville, Texas, people are planning to Meet the Migrants at the Border, in greeting them food and love! This date is currently tentative, as it is unclear when the migrant caravan will actually arrive. Organizers point out that there are five other points of entry on the Texas border the migrant caravan may try, and are encouraging people to organize more events. Here's a link to their Facebook page. Duluth, Minnesota: Anti-fascist and anti-white supremacy People's General Assemblies will be taking place weekly, Tuesdays at 6 PM in People's Power Plaza Court support for the Vaughn Trial is welcome! Court is ongoing every weekday from 10am–5pm in Courtroom 8B at 500 N King St, Wilmington, DE. For more information, visit itsgoingdown.org. Upcoming anarchist book fairs and gatherings: November 17–18: The Seattle Anarchist Book Fair is taking place at The Vera Project from 10–5 each day. The Vera Project is located at Seattle Center, on the corner of Warren Ave North and Republican St. Here's a map. November 17–18: The Boston Anarchist Book Fair is taking place at 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA from 10–8 each day. Here's a map. November 29 - December 2: Anarchists in Umea, Sweden are hosting their first ever bookfair! Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is on tour until late November! This week's dates: November 15: Kansas City, MO. 10:00 am @ Kansas City Public Library Lucile H Bluford Branch 3050 Prospect Ave Kan

We kick off the episode with a discussion about anarchism and voting. After a roundup of resistance to capitalism and the state, our feature this episode is about Trump's deployment of thousands of troops to "defend the border" and how it is in most people's interest to push back on this latest precedent of using the military against civilian populations. We remember recently deceased anarchists Zhlobitsky Mikhail Vasilyevich and Kevin Garrido. There are calls for mobilizations on the border in the coming weeks, updates from the Vaughn 17 trial, and announcements of anti-fascist actions for the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {November 7, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction: Anarchism vs. Voting {0:00} Headlines {5:10} Turning the Army against the People: Border Militarization and the Migrant Caravan {10:45} Remembering anarchists Zhlobitsky Mikhail Vasilyevich and Kevin Garrido {19:25} Repression roundup {24:30} Next Week's News {31:15} Download 29:30 minutes long version. Upcoming events/demos/etc: November 8–11: International Days of Action against Fascism and Anti-Semitism. November 10: A rally and march in NYC for International Days of Action against Fascism and Anti-Semitism. Gather at 1pm at 83rd and Lexington Ave. November 10: A meeting of the Jewish Antifascist Network of the Triangle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at Peace and Justice Plaza to hold a service for those murdered in the Holocaust and in recent white supremacist and anti-Semitic attacks November 10: A call for counter demos against PEGIDA's anti-Muslim and anti-refugee demonstration in Toronto. Meet at 12pm in Mel Lastman Square. November 10: a demonstration in Little Rock, Arkansas against the white supremacist National Socialist Movement. Meet at the capitol steps at 500 Woodlane St at 12pm. November 11: this month's PDX Rad Movie Night, hosted by Portland Anarchist Black Cross and Oregon Jericho, presents The Gentleman Bank Robber, the story of queer revolutionary and former political prisoner Rita Bo Brown. The screening, followed by a discussion, will be taking place at 6PM at the Social Justice Action Center at 400 SE 12th Ave. - November 16–18: School of the Americas Watch is hosting a border encuentro directly on the US/Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona and Sonora. November 17: A Stand Against Proud Boys action in Philadelpha, to counter Proud Boys who are planning to attend a rally called We the People. Meet at Washington Square Park at 6th and Walnut Streets. November 26 in London, England: A meeting to plan solidarity events for January 19 in support of anti-fascists facing persecution in Russia. The meeting will take place at Mayday Rooms, located at 88 Fleet St. December 17(ish): in Brownsville, Texas, people are planning to Meet the Migrants at the Border, in greeting them food and love! This date is currently tentative, as it is unclear when the migrant caravan will actually arrive. Organizers point out that there are five other points of entry on the Texas border the migrant caravan may try, and are encouraging people to organize more events. Here's a link to their Facebook page. Duluth, Minnesota: Anti-fascist and anti-white supremacy People's General Assemblies will be taking place weekly, Tuesdays at 6 PM in People's Power Plaza Upcoming anarchist book fairs and gatherings: November 10: Anarchist Book Fair Amsterdam November 17–18: The Seattle Anarchist Book Fair November 17–18: The Boston Anarchist Book Fair Lastly, anarchists in Umea, Sweden are hosting their first ever bookfair from November 29 to December 2. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is on tour until late November! This week's dates: November 9: Lincoln, NE. 6:30 pm @ F Street Community Center 1225 F St Lincoln, NE 68508 November 10: Lincoln, NE. 10:00 am @ F Street Community Center 1225 F St Lincoln, NE 68508 November 14: Kansas Cito, MO. 6:00 pm @ Kansas City Public Library Lucile H Bluford Branch 3050 Prospect Ave Kansas City, MO 64128 November 15: Kansas Cito, MO. 10:00 am @ Kansas City Public Library Lucile H Bluford Branch 3050 Prospect Ave Kansas City, MO 64128 A complete list of tour dates and locations can be found here. Other anarchist critiques of voting and democracy: "Voting vs. Direct Action" "The Party's Over: Beyond Politics, Beyond Democracy" "From Democracy To Freedom" "False Hope vs. Real Change" The Ex-Worker #51: "Anarchism, Voting, and Direct Action: An Audio Zine" The Ex-Worker #48: "From Democracy to Freedom Audio Zine" The Ex-Worker #47: "Introducing the Anarchist Critique of Democracy" Other Crimethinc material referenced in this episode: "Fuck Abuse, Kill Power" "The Thin Blue Line is a Burning Fuse" "Turning the Army against the People: Border Militarization and the Migrant Caravan" " On the Attack against the FSB in Russia, Including a Statement from the Anarchist Who

No news is good news. 60% of wildlife has been wiped off the planet since 1970. Mexican police kill a man in the migrant caravan on the border with Guatemala. Ever since Trump openly declared himself a nationalist last week, there has been an escalation of far-right violence. We interview an anarchist who works at the Tree of Life synagogue where an anti-Semite massacred 11 people on Saturday, as well as two people in the Outlive Them network about the upcoming International Days of Action against Fascism and Anti-Semitism. We also draw connections between the election of Bolsonaro in Brazil and anarchist resistance to Trump and democracy itself in the United States. Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {October 31, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:12} Tree of Life massacre {5:10} Bolsonaro, democracy, elections {24:00} Resistance roundup {33:50} Repression roundup {37:50} Next Week's News {43:15} Download 29:30 minutes long version. The latest episode of Sub.Media's webseries Trouble deals with the J20 protests and ensuing legal battle. If anyone out there can help translate the subtitles to Brazilian Portuguese, we know that comrades there would appreciate it! E-mail us at podcast[at]crimethinc[dot]com. Upcoming events/demos/etc: November 2: A call for counter protests against Steve Bannon and David Frum in Toronto. Meet at 5pm outside Ray Thomson Hall located at 60 Simcoe St. November 6: an anti-ICE march in Portland, Oregon at 6pm. Meet at City Hall and check out @OccupyICEPDX on twitter for more information. November 8–11: International Days of Action against Fascism and Anti-Semitism, including this action in New York City on November 10. November 10: A call for counter demos against PEGIDA's anti-Muslim and anti-refugee demonstration, also in Toronto. Meet at 12pm in Mel Lastman Square. November 16–18: School of the Americas Watch is hosting a border encuentro directly on the US/Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona and Sonora. November 17: A Stand Against Proud Boys action in Philadelpha, to counter Proud Boys who are planning to attend a rally called We the People. Meet at Washington Square Park at 6th and Walnut Streets. Upcoming anarchist book fairs and gatherings: November 1–2, Anarchist Book Fair in Santiago, Chile November 10: Anarchist Book Fair Amsterdam November 17–18: The Seattle Anarchist Book Fair November 17–18: The Boston Anarchist Book Fair More about the unpermitted crowd that forced Trump's motorcade to turn around in Pittsburgh. The Claws of Empire, the Rise of Fascism: Brazilian Anarchist Statement on Bolsonaro Another anarchist perspective on the upcoming midterm elections. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief are still looking for accomplices in their autonomous relief work in North Carolina, as well as supplies. They need: people with any background relevant to repairing homes. food, water, cleaning & building supplies, baby supplies, etc. funds, to go toward these projects, keeping the lights on, keeping it all moving Gift cards and supplies can be mailed to: 102 N Cedar St. Lumberton, NC 28358 If you can come help, please get in touch by emailing [email protected] or [email protected] Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is on tour until late November! This week's dates: October 31: Olympia, WA. 3:00 pm PDT @ Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505 November 1: Seattle, WA. 7:00 pm PDT @ Pipsqueak Gallery, 173 16th Ave Seattle, WA 98122 November 6: Fort Collins, CO. 7:00 pm MST @ Poudre Valley Public Library, 201 Peterson St, Fort Collins, CO 80524 November 7: Fort Collins, CO. 4:00 pm MST @ Cafe Foco, 201 Peterson St, Fort Collins, CO 80524 A complete list of tour dates and locations can be found here. Duluth, Minnesota: Anti-fascist and anti-white supremacy People's General Assemblies will be taking place weekly, Tuesdays at 6 PM in People's Power Plaza Political Prisoner Malik Washington has announced a hunger strike, not only against his conditions, but also against police brutality on streets and inside prison walls, against prison slavery, and against patriarchy and imperialism. If you'd like to send him written messages of support, you can write him at: Keith H. Washington #1487958 McConnell Unit 3100 South Emily Drive Beeville, TX 78103 Write a letter to anarchist prisoner Eric King at: Eric King # 27090045 USP LEAVENWORTH U.S. PENITENTIARY P.O. BOX 1000 LEAVENWORTH, KS 66048 Rashid Johnson, a revolutionary prisoner who is a founding member, and Minister of Defense, of the Prison Chapter of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, is asking for your help! As de facto retribution for his relentless activism and exposure of the prison system, Rashid is being held in awful repressive conditions. Especially importantly, he takes medication for his blood pressure and the prison is withholding his

We have a flurry of headlines from around the globe, with the migrant caravan from Honduras breaking through the Mexico-Guatemala border, indigenous comrades and their allies building prayer lodges in the path of the line 3 pipeline, London antifascists successfully blocking an anti-Muslim march, anarchists rioting in Barcelona after being evicted from their squat, and accounts of Chilean police attacking student protestors. Water protectors have been hard at work opposing the Mountain Valley Pipeline, and Panama City landlords have begun evicting devastated residents from their homes. You'll hear from Carbondale anarchists mobilizing against Trump and right-wing reaction, and a hotline created by New Orleans antifascists to document Proud Boy activity—plus much more! Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {October 24, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} D-beat news {4:30} Regular news {7:00} Migrant caravan breaks through the Mexican border {9:25} No Wall They Can Build audiobook preview {14:40} Antifascist assembly in Carbondale, IL {20:00} Anti-Proud Boy alert line in New Orleans {24:30} Repression Roundup {27:35} Next Week's News {32:40} Download 29:30 minutes long version. Upcoming events/demos/etc: October 27: A pro-choice counter demo and march in Munich, Germany. Meet at 1pm at Max-Joseph-Platz in Munich. November 6: an anti-ICE march in Portland, Oregon at 6pm. Meet at City Hall and check out @OccupyICEPDX on twitter for more information. November 16–18: School of the Americas Watch is hosting a border encuentro directly on the US/Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona and Sonora. Upcoming anarchist book fairs and gatherings: - October 26–28: Anarchist Book Fair in Lisbon, Portugal November 17–18: The Seattle Anarchist Book Fair November 17–18: The Boston Anarchist Book Fair November 1–2, Anarchist Book Fair in Santiago, Chile November 10: Anarchist Bookfair Amsterdam Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is on tour until late November! This week's dates: October 26: Portland, OR. 6:30 pm @ Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201 October 27: Portland, OR. 11:00 am @ Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201 October 30: Olympia, WA. 7:00 pm @ Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505 October 31: Olympia, WA. 3:00 pm @ Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505 A complete list of tour dates and locations can be found here. IWOC member and prison rebel, Keith "Malik" Washington is asking for support after being repeatedly strip searched, including while being videotaped. He requests that people call the Texas Department of Corrections executive director, Bryan Collier, at 936–295–6371. 6 pipeline resisters were arrested and are being held on a collective $17k bail — you can donate to their fund here. Visit Appalachians Against Pipelines for more information about this and ongoing/upcoming anti-pipeline actions. It's Going Down, one of our favorite online sources for anarchist and resistance news, is launching a fundraising campaign to ensure they can keep funding all their bad ass (and important!) revolutionary projects. Visit their website to learn more about how you can donate or otherwise support their very important work. CrimethInc output we cited this episode: Alive in the Land of the Dead Music as a Weapon: The Contentious Symbiosis of Punk Rock and Anarchism. No Wall They Can Build: A Guide to Borders & Migration Across North America Also, check out CrimethInc.'s bandcamp for a newly-uploaded selection of all their old hardcore releases, and check out the related essay. Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write a birthday message for Eddie Africa of the MOVE 9, who celebrates a birthday next week: Edward Goodman Africa. #AM4974 SCI Mahanoy Post Office Box 33028 St Petersburg, Florida 33733 {Birthday: October 31} Sales are OPEN for the 2019 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar! The theme of next year's calendar is Health/Care, and it features art and writing from current and former political prisoners like David Gilbert, Mike and Chuck Africa, and Laura Whitehorn. If you buy 10 or more, be sure to use the discount code "BULK" to get 10 or more calendars for $10 each—you can then sell the calendars to fundraise for your own organizing. We have a Twitter! Follow @HotwireWeekly and send us news that we should include in the show.

Our features for this Hotwire are interviews about the Proud Boys attacks in New York City and Portland, Oregon, and we have an interview about autonomous relief after Hurricane Michael, which is also seeing organizing from neo-confederate fascists. We have a whirlwind of headlines from around the world, with breast-baring feminists burning barricades in Argentina, squatters from Ireland to Germany, and indigenous resistance in Canada. Connor Stevens of the Cleveland 4 is getting out soon, Jalil Muntaqim could use letters of support for his parole hearing, and we have calls to action from the L'eau Est La Vie anti-pipeline camp, plus much more! Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {October 17, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {0:38} Hurricane Michael autonomous relief {6:10} Proud Boys attacks in New York City and Portland, Oregon {16:50} Repression Roundup {33:40} Next Week's News {39:00} Download 29:30 minutes long version. Upcoming events/demos/etc: October 19: Benefit punk show for recently released political prisoners in Brooklyn, New York at 8:30 pm in Pine Box Rock Shop October 20–21: The [Knoxville Abortion Doula Collective]((https://www.facebook.com/knoxvilleabortiondoulacollective/) is offering a workshop on Autonomous Pelvic Care in Roanoke, VA October 21: An anti-prison rally at 3 pm, outside the ICPA Conference at the Montréal Marriott Chateau Champlain, near metro Bonaventure October 27: A pro-choice counter demo and march in Munich, Germany. Meet at 1pm at Max-Joseph-Platz in Munich. November 6: an anti-ICE march in Portland, Oregon at 6pm. Meet at City Hall and check out @OccupyICEPDX on twitter for more information. Upcoming anarchist book fairs and gatherings: October 20–21: Anarchist Festival in London, England; to be part of the festival, email anarchistfestival(at)riseup.net. November 17–18: The Seattle Anarchist Book Fair November 17–18: The Boston Anarchist Book Fair Autonomous Mutual Aid in the wake of Hurricanes Florence and Michael: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Florida Amazon Wishlist North Carolina Amazon Wishlist Tallahassee DSA Fund Florida People's Advocacy Center, a safe space for disaster relief, and is trans* inclusive and welcomes undocumented folks. Blue Ridge Autonomous Defense Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice Mutual Aid Carrboro NC Solidarity Network Tidewater Solidarity Collective Appalachian Medical Solidarity River City Medic Collective Community Advocacy and Healing Project You can support the East Hamilton rent strike by calling the building's administrative office at 289–426–3001 and telling them to stop repressing tenant organizing. Alternatively, consider contributing to their GoFundMe to help pay for the filing fees ($190 per tenant) required in Ontario of the strikers when they are issued eviction notices, a common retaliation to rent strikes. If you prefer to donate by cheque, please send it to the following address: The Hamilton Tenants Solidarity Network c/o Hamilton Community Legal Clinic Suite #203, 100 Main St. E, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3W4 You can support the Seattle GDC's campaign to get Proud Boy Nicholas Boling fired by calling Boeing's commercial airplanes division at 206–655–1131 or the plant in Auburn where he works as a fabricator at (253) 931–2121. Sample script: "I am calling about Boeing employing Nick Boling, who is a member of the violent hate group the Proud Boys, and has misrepresented himself as being a Boeing test pilot when he assaulted a bartender in Bellingham Washington. Boeing should do the right thing and hold him accountable for his reprehensible behavior." Abraham Hernandez, a Black Mesa supporter, was arrested in Utah and is currently being held captive at an immigration detention center. Here's a link to a fundraiser to guarantee Abraham's safety and intentional protection, to contribute to and/or share! Visit rupression.com for ways to support the eight antifascists currently being held captive and tortured by the Russian state. Ways to support them include: sharing on social media, online and physical letter writing, and monetary donations (including several cryptocurrencies). Connor Stevens, one of the Cleveland 4, is being released as soon as November, and there's a fundraiser to help get him basic necessities when he is released! Here's also a Paypal to support the rest of the Cleveland 4. Atlanta Antifascists have announced a new campaign against local white nationalist organizer Casey Jordan Cooper. Casey is attending John Marshall Law School and they're asking people to call the law school at (678) 916–2600 and express your concern about the white power leader attending their school. Here is a sample script provided in an earlier call to action: SHORT SCRIPT: "Why aren't you doing anything about Casey Cooper's white supremacist organizing at your school?" LONGER SCRIPT: "H

An anarchist from Brazil fills us in on Bolsonaro, where he came from, and the dangers his presidency poses to social movements. We talk about how it's not just killer cop Van Dyke in Chicago, or sexual assaulter Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court—it's the system, and we propose full on ungovernability to render law and order irrelevant. We have roundups on anti-Columbus Day actions, anti-pipeline struggles, and the recent temporary victory at the Hambach Forest. Don't miss our very special interview with one of the demonstrators at the anti-Trump march in Philadelphia, which debuted Gritty as the hot new anti-fascist mascot. Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {October 10, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Anti-Columbus Day actions and history {0:45} Anti-fascist news {2:58} Gritty {5:05} Anarchists in Brazil on Bolsonaro {7:55} Anarchist art stunts {18:55} 12 years until climate catastrophe {21:05} Temporary victory in the Hambach Forest {26:00} Repression Roundup {27:30} Next Week's News {36:25} Download 29:30 minutes long version. GRITTY! Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers' Bizarre New Mascot, Is Antifa Now Fellow Worker Gritty's Twitter Antifa activists so effectively claimed Gritty as a leftist icon that the Wall Street Journal was forced to publish an anguished op-ed. The most outrageous Gritty meme we've seen yet Upcoming events/opportunities for action: October 13: A unity demonstration against the far right in London, England (contact [email protected] for more information) October 15–18: An action camp with Anti-colonial Land Defense in the NW Lake Superior bioregion that is a two-spirit, trans & womxn friendly action camp that prioritizes POC/indigenous comrades (contact [email protected] for more information) October 19: Benefit punk show for recently released political prisoners in Brooklyn, New York at 8:30 pm in Pine Box Rock Shop October 21: An anti-prison rally at 3 pm, outside the ICPA Conference at the Montréal Marriott Chateau Champlain, near metro Bonaventure Other anarchist material we referenced in this episode: What They Mean When They Say Peace Desert More about far-right Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro: This 13 minute British news special about how Bolsonaro is bolstering homophobia and explicit fascism in Brazil. In Portuguese: Motivos pelos quais o sistema precisa de Bolsonaro - Iniciativa Revolução Universal Brazil: #NotHim Women Protest Far-Right Jair Bolsonaro Reddit /Anarchism/ thread about Bolsonaro You can keep up with anarchist efforts in Brazil by following the Kasa Invisivel twitter Ways to support the rent strike at Holgate Manor: Contact Princeton Property Management and let them know what the community thinks of them! Be sure to mention that we can all see their retaliatory tactics, and that they must drop the eviction and STOP TRYING TO BUST THE UNION immediately, make badly needed repairs, and rescind their unaffordable rent increases. You can reach them at 1–800–275–4313, or you can mail their office a letter at 7831 SE Lake Rd #200, Portland, OR 97267. If you have some spare coin, their Strike Fund could still use donations! They'll be using it for legal defense and assistance for tenants who are retaliated against. You can find it here. Stay tuned to the Alliance Against Displacement on Twitter for how to support the arrestees and further organizing to open up safe housing for the homeless in Nanaimo To support María Chavalan Sut in her fight against deportation, check out facebook.com/handsoffmaria Two Hambach Forest defenders have been released, but three are still in jail! To send them messages of support, email [email protected]. There's more information about the Spanish prisoner strikes at tokata.info. A support campaign for arrested Water Protector, Rattler. You can also help support him financially through his Paypal. Court support will be needed in the coming months for the Vaughn 17. Two of the rebels are defending themselves pro se and they could use all the support they can get! Email [email protected] to plug in. Kris Thompson, whose wife was murdered by police and is now facing grave charges to cover it up, needs financial support in her fight for justice! Support the Kris Thompson Legal Fund here. Upcoming anarchist book fairs and gatherings: October 13–14: The anarchist book and propaganda gathering in Santiago, Chile October 12–14: Anarchist tattoo and piercing festival in Pelotas, Brazil October 20–21: Anarchist Festival in London, England November 17–18: The Seattle Anarchist Book Fair November 17–18: The Boston Anarchist Book Fair Autonomous Mutual Aid in the wake of Hurricane Florence and in preparation for Hurricane Michael: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Blue Ridge Autonomous Defense Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice Mutual Aid

Alanis is back! And she reads our feature this episode, an audio version of the recent CrimethInc. text Kavanaugh Shouldn't Be on the Supreme Court. Neither Should Anyone Else. We also interview an anarchist in Portland, Oregon about the #PatrickKimmons actions at the intersection where police killed him. Winter, one of the anarchists in jail defending Germany's Hambach Forest in the last couple of weeks, is refusing to surrender their legal identity to the government. However, they did submit a beautiful letter to Rhineland Anarchist Black Cross, which we also read in this episode. Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {October 4, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {2:40} Interview about #PatrickKimmons actions and memorials in Portland, OR {4:20} Kavanaugh Shouldn't Be on the Supreme Court. Neither Should Anyone Else {8:45} Repression Roundup {21:40} Next Week's News {30:55} Download 29:30 minutes long version. Upcoming anti-fascist action: October 6 at the Rhode Island State House in Providence at 10 AM to oppose a "Resist Marxism" rally. October 7, Montreal, Quebec: Mass anti-racist demonstration at 3 PM in Berri Square. October 13 in London, England: Unity Demonstration against a far-right football hooligan event. Other CrimethInc. output we cited in this episode: To Our Compas in Buenos Aires: A Full Retrospective on the 2017 G20 Protests in Hamburg The Ex-Worker #37: The Hambacher Forest Occupation Audio documentary about the Hambacher Forest occupation in western Germany Why We Don't Make Demands Kavanaugh Shouldn't Be on the Supreme Court. Neither Should Anyone Else. Fuck Abuse, Kill Power: Addressing the Root Causes of Sexual Harassment and Assault We love this letter from Winter, one of the anonymous anarchists arrested while defending the Hambach Forest, who is refusing to surrender their identity over to the police. A fundraiser for legal costs for Marco, a Food Not Bombs activist in the Phillipines arrested on trumped-up drug charges. Almost there! Contact [email protected] for information on court support for the Vaughn 17, and/or attend the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement's orientation to supporting the 17 trial in Brooklyn on Saturday, October 6th. You can check out David Gilbert's book Love and Struggle here. If you're in Europe, go to the demo at Buir Train Station in Germany's Rhineland on October 6 at 12:00 noon to protest the eviction of Hambach forest defenders. A new poster for Greg Curry. You can also write him at this address: Greg Curry #213–159 OSP 878 Coitsville-Hubbard Road Youngstown, OH 44505 Upcoming anarchist book fairs and gatherings: October 13–14: The anarchist book and propaganda gathering in Santiago, Chile October 12–14: Anarchist tattoo and piercing festival in Pelotas, Brazil October 20–21: Anarchist Festival in London, England November 17–18: The Seattle Anarchist Book Fair November 17–18: The Boston Anarchist Book Fair Autonomous Mutual Aid in the wake of Hurricane Florence Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Blue Ridge Autonomous Defense Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice Mutual Aid Carrboro NC Solidarity Network Tidewater Solidarity Collective Appalachian Medical Solidarity River City Medic Collective Community Advocacy and Healing Project Operation Airdrop Sales are now OPEN for the 2019 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar! The theme of next year's calendar is Health/Care, and it features art and writing from current and former political prisoners like David Gilbert, Mike and Chuck Africa, and Laura Whitehorn. If you buy 10 or more, be sure to use the discount code "BULK" to get 10 or more calendars for $10 each—you can then sell the calendars to fundraise for your own organizing. Orders start shipping September 10! Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write birthday greetings to Jamil Al-Amin, David Gilbert, Michael Davis Africa, and Malik Smith: Jamil Al-Amin #99974–555 USP Tuscon Post Office Box 24550 Tuscon, Arizona 85734 (Birthday: October 4) David Gilbert #83-A–6158 Wende Correctional Facility 3040 Wende Road Alden, New York 14004–1187 (Birthday: October 6) Michael Davis Africa #AM–4973 SCI Phoenix Post Office Box 244 Graterford, Pennsylvania 19426–0244 (Birthday: October 6) Malik Bey (But address envelope to…) Meral Smith #16–024 Tallahatchie Correctional Facility​ 415 US Highway 49N Tutwiler, Mississippi 38963 (Birthday: October 8) Support alleged prison strike organizers by calling the director of North Carolina's Department of Public Safety and telling him to move the prisoners out of segregation and remove the infraction charges against them. Call: 919–733–2126 A sample script: "Hi, my name is ( ), I would like to speak to Kennith Lassiter. I'm calling in regards to four prisoners in the North Carolina

Our feature this episode is an interview with an anarchist involved in one of the more spectacular autonomous relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Florence—Operation Airdrop. We follow it up with some discussion about the role of anarchist politics in doing autonomous, mutual aid relief work. We also interview someone involved in the new occupation outside campus security on Portland State University's campus after a grand jury did not indict two killer cops for the murder of Jason Washington. The International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces is dissolving their organization, but we share their final communiqué in which they encourage us to keep up the struggle against hierarchy in all its forms. Plus, reports on the recent #MeToo McDonald's workers strike, anti-fascist action in Tennessee, and announcements for anarchist book fairs and ways to support prisoners. Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {September 26, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {0:50} Occupation against the police at PSU {8:20} Autonomous relief after Hurricane Florence and Operation Airdrop interview {12:35} Repression roundup {22:40} Next Week's News {29:10} Download 29:30 minutes long version. Autonomous Mutual Aid in the wake of Hurricane Florence Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Blue Ridge Autonomous Defense Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice Mutual Aid Carrboro NC Solidarity Network Tidewater Solidarity Collective Appalachian Medical Solidarity River City Medic Collective Community Advocacy and Healing Project Operation Airdrop Upcoming anti-fascist action: September 29 at Risman Plaza on Kent State University in Ohio from 1–5 PM—demonstrate against the participation of white supremacists from the American Guard in an open-carry on campus rally October 6 at the Rhode Island State House in Providence at 10 AM to oppose a "Resist Marxism" rally October 13 in London, England: Unity Demonstration against a far-right football hooligan event. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief presentations in Tucson, Arizona: Friday, September 28, at 7 PM: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism at Global Justice Center 225 E 26th St Tucson, AZ 85705 Saturday, September 29, at 10 AM: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness Global Justice Center 225 E 26th St Tucson, AZ 85705 Visit miantirepression.org for information on FBI harassment in Michigan. Demand an end to the year-long lockdown at Lieber Correctional by contributing to the phone zap: Henry McMaster, SC Governor Phone: 803.734.2100 Fax: 803.734.5167 Lieber Correctional Institution General Number 843–875–3332 Ask for transfer to Captain Haney Warden Randall Williams 843–875–3332 Check out this interview with recently deported anarchist Mapache. Upcoming anarchist book fairs and gatherings: September 28–30: The 12th annual Balkan Anarchist Bookfair in Novi Sad, Serbia October 13–14: The anarchist book and propaganda gathering in Santiago, Chile October 12–14: Anarchist tattoo and piercing festival in Pelotas, Brazil October 20–21: Anarchist Festival in London, England November 17–18: The Seattle Anarchist Book Fair Other relevant anarchist media: This is Parkdale, a documentary on tenant organizing in Toronto. Hotwire #35 discusses the struggle over the Artesian Commons in Olympia, Washington. The Ex-Worker #17 has an interview with an anarchist supporter of Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation prisoner Jorge P Cornell. Sales are now OPEN for the 2019 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar! The theme of next year's calendar is Health/Care, and it features art and writing from current and former political prisoners like David Gilbert, Mike and Chuck Africa, and Laura Whitehorn. If you buy 10 or more, be sure to use the discount code "BULK" to get 10 or more calendars for $10 each—you can then sell the calendars to fundraise for your own organizing. Orders start shipping September 10! Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write Jorge Cornell of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation and Skelly of the Cleveland Four: Jorge P. Cornell #28152–057 FCI Petersburg Low 1100 RIVER ROAD HOPEWELL, VA 23860 (Birthday: September 29) Skelly (but address envelope to…) Joshua Stafford #57976–060 USP McCreary Post Office Box 3000 Pine Knot, Kentucky 42635 (Birthday: October 3) For general information on supporting anarchist prisoner Casey Brezik, pop over to supportcasey.org. To help with writing parole board letters for Casey, here's a sample letter: Missouri Board of Probation and Parole 1511 Christy Drive Jefferson City, MO 65101 Regarding: Parole Board Hearing for Casey Brezik #1154765 Dear Honorable Members of the Parole Board, As a concerned citizen who is interested in helping Casey successfully transition into

The world is a dangerous place in 2018-Botham Jean is murdered in his own home by a Dallas cop and police are actively raiding the rebel encampment in the Hambach Forest. There's inspiring strike resistance in Central and South America where striking dockworkers in Chile caused thousands of dollars in damage and a general strike in taking place in Costa Rica. Hurricane Florence took Wilmington by storm and we interview anarchists on the ground doing disaster relief. There are quite a few prisoners who need support and we read excerpts from a heartfelt statement issued by prisoners at the Burnside Prison in Halifax who are ending their strike. Anarchists in London are trying something new! And there's lots of events coming up! Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {September 19, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:15} Evictions in Hambach Forest {5:42} Strikes! in Costa Rica and Chile {11:10} Interview w Anarchists in Wilmington after Hurricane Florence {13:22} Explosions in Hanover {22:31} Repression roundup {25:45} Next Week's News {34:52} Download 29:30 minutes long version Autonomous Mutual Aid in the wake of Hurricane Florence Donate to Grassroots Hurricane Relief, in Durham, NC, or Mutual Aid Supplies Relief NC You can contact Tidewater IWW in the Norfolk, VA area, Mutual Aid Carrboro, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief or Blue Ridge Autonomous Defense Crew in North Carolina Donate to relief efforts around Andover and Lawrence, Massachusetts after an explosions and fires rocked their communities: Bread And Roses Lawrence, Lazarus House shelter, Elevated Thought , or Greater Lawrence Community Action Council. Upcoming anarchist book fairs and events: September 28–30: The 12th annual Balkan Anarchist Bookfair in Novi Sad, Serbia Anarchist book and propaganda gathering in Santiago, Chile October 13 and 14, encuentroanarquista.org. 20 and 21 in London, England, instead of an anarchist bookfair comrades there are organizing a decentralized anarchist festival! Help defend long term anarchist spaces: On September 29, there is a demo at 6 PM in defense of Liebig34, a self-organized, anarcha-queer-feminist collective house and social center in Berlin! And fund new ones: The Aftonomi Space in Yogyakarta, Indonesia is raising funds to equip their infoshop! Upcoming anti-fascist action: September 29: Oppose the League of the South's rally in Elizabethton, TN. Stay tuned to @HollerNetwork and @knoxradical for updates. Help fund defense for antifa arrested in Newnan, Georgia! In the next episode of Trouble, subMedia explores hiphop as a potent site of revolutionary politics. It drops on September 25th at 8pm on sub.media Other relevant CrimethInc. material: Learn more about the legacy of the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile through the insurrectionary documentary The Chicago Conspiracy Hotwire #3, Hotwire #6, and Hotwire #9 have interviews about mutual aid based, autonomous relief efforts in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico. Evictions HAVE BEGUN in the Hambach Forest! If you're in Europe, make your way to the Hambach Forest in Germany to help defend it, and the radical Ewok village of forest defenders who live there. Also, check out our audio documentary about the forest and the defense campaign to stop the cutting. Sales are OPEN for the 2019 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar! The theme of next year's calendar is Health/Care, and it features art and writing from current and former political prisoners like David Gilbert, Mike and Chuck Africa, and Laura Whitehorn. If you buy 10 or more, be sure to use the discount code "BULK" to get 10 or more calendars for $10 each—you can then sell the calendars to fundraise for your own organizing. Orders start shipping September 10! Call in to support Imam Hasan, Silenced on Death Row in Ohio! Sample script can be found here. Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write Greg Curry, who was unjustly targeted after the Lucasville uprising: Greg Curry #213–159 OSP 878 Coitsville-Hubbard Rd Youngstown, OH 44505 USA September 26th is his birthday and he's asking people to make T-shirts that say "Free Greg Curry" on them, with "GregCurry.org" on the back and send photos of yourself wearing it to his Facebook page! We have a Twitter! Follow @HotwireWeekly and send us news that we should include in the show. Corrections and Clarifications The looting discussed in our interview took place at a Family Dollar, not at a Dollar General.

It's 17 years and a day after 9/11 and Iraq is still in shambles, so we rip apart liberals for thinking George W. Bush is somehow "cute". 2001 pops up again when we compare the current economic crisis in Argentina to the wave of worker-led factory takeovers and anarchist media that resisted the last economic meltdown there. We call for anarchists to incorporate a critique of nationalism itself into our anti-fascist strategy and analysis, we include preliminary information for autonomous relief efforts based in mutual aid for #HurricaneFlorence, and we wrap up the National #PrisonStrike with an action report and a bunch of phone-zaps! Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {September 12, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} George W. Bush is not cute {0:50} The other 9/11 {2:45} Economic collapse in Argentina… again {4:00} Bringing back the anarchist critique of nationalism {5:25} Here come the hurricanes—time for mutual aid {11:00} #PrisonStrike ends {14:55} Repression roundup {20:35} Next Week's News {27:40} Download 29:30 minutes long version. Autonomous Mutual Aid in the wake of Hurricane Florence You can contact Tidewater IWW in the Norfolk, VA area or Blue Ridge Autonomous Defense Crew in North Carolina Fundraiser for grassroots hurricane relief after Florence Hurricane Florence prisoner solidarity phone zap Message regarding Hurricane Florence from our comrades in Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief will give a brief presentation on September 15th at 10:30am at the Uplift Climate Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Anarchist book fairs this weekend: September 15: The Eastern Connecticut Workers Bookfair in Parade Plaza, New London, Connecticut September 15: The 23rd annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair in Oakland, California September 28–30: The 12th annual Balkan Anarchist Bookfair in Novi Sad, Serbia Upcoming anti-fascist action: September 15: Stop the League of the South from disrupting TriPride in Johnson City, TN September 29: Oppose the League of the South's rally in Elizabethton, TN. Stay tuned to @HollerNetwork and @knoxradical for updates. Argentina: The documentary The Take looks at factory takeovers and a little of the abstentionist anti-voting movement in Argentina as a response to the economic crisis of 2001 Keep up with resistance news in Argentina through Indymedia Argentina and the excellent anti-authoritarian TV channel Antena Negra Other relevant CrimethInc. output: Our take on September 11 Learn more about the legacy of the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile through the insurrectionary documentary The Chicago Conspiracy Hotwire #3, Hotwire #6, and Hotwire #9 have interviews about mutual aid based, autonomous relief efforts in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico. Some anarchist critiques of nationalism: Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty by Emma Goldman Peace is Patriotic, and That's the Problem Against Nationalism by Anarchist Federation Donate to the legal defense fund for anti-racists and anti-fascists arrested in relation to the Silent Sam confederate monument in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Check out this guide on experiences and reflections dealing with undercover police infiltration in Toronto Evictions HAVE BEGUN in the Hambach Forest! If you're in Europe, make your way to the Hambach Forest in Germany to help defend it, and the radical Ewok village of forest defenders who live there. Also, check out our audio documentary about the forest and the defense campaign to stop the cutting. Pre-sales are OPEN for the 2019 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar! The theme of next year's calendar is Health/Care, and it features art and writing from current and former political prisoners like David Gilbert, Mike and Chuck Africa, and Laura Whitehorn. If you buy 10 or more, be sure to use the discount code "BULK" to get 10 or more calendars for $10 each—you can then sell the calendars to fundraise for your own organizing. Orders start shipping September 10! Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write imprisoned American Indian Movement warrior Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier #89637–132 USP Coleman I Post Office Box 1033 Coleman, Florida 33521 Phone zap for Jason Walker You can contact the TDCJ Ombudsman at [email protected], as well as the Telford Unit's management at 903–628–3171 and [email protected]. You can speak to the Regional Director's office at (903) 928–2623, [email protected] and [email protected]. Contact details for TDCJ head office are (936) 295–6371, [email protected] and [email protected] Script for phone calls: "Hello, I am contacting you as I have been made aware of a pattern of bogus disciplinary cases being issued by CO Renitia T. Davis. In particular, I wish to request that you bring in an appro

In this Hotwire we bring you two interviews: one from an anarchist organizer involved in indigenous-led anti-pipeline struggles in Canada about the recent announcement that construction will be halted on the Trans Mountain Pipeline; and we speak with an anti-fascist who was on the streets of Chemnitz, Germany on Saturday when anti-fascists blocked the latest Nazi mobilization there. We also ruminate on common sense anti-racism, whether political campaigns figure into anarchist strategy, and an anarchist approach to school dress code policies. There are plenty of updates from the [#PrisonStrike](https://itsgoingdown.org/prisonstrike/) and LOTS of announcements for action in September, so listen until the end! Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {September 5, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {0:50} Antifa block Nazis in Chemnitz {14:05} Trans Mountain Pipeline on pause {20:20} Still tearing down the Confederacy in Chapel Hill and Charlottesville {26:00} Anarchists, stop running for office! {30:25} Repression roundup {34:50} Next Week's News {36:20} Download 29:30 minutes long version. The 2018 #PrisonStrike is ongoing! Check out the Incarcerated Workers website for more information, resources, and the list of prisoner's demands. This episode of the excellent podcast Kite Line features statements from two prisoners in South Carolina about the #PrisonStrike, and don't forget to check out episode #50 of The Ex-Worker, which is all about the 2016 national #PrisonStrike. Upcoming #PrisonStrike related events: September 7, Seattle, 7 PM: noise demo at the youth jail September 8, Columbia, SC, 1:30 PM: rally for prison reform September 8, Albuquerque, NM, 4 PM: prison strike solidarity rally September 9, Seattle, 3 PM: prisoner letter-writing September 9, Vancouver, British Columbia, 6 PM: a benefit screening of From Prisons to Prisons September 21, Minneapolis, MN, 6 PM: letter-writing night Other relevant Ex-Worker and Hotwire episodes: Hotwire #24 has an interview with an anarchist sex worker about the FOSTA-SESTA law. The Ex-Worker #51: Anarchism, Voting, and Direct Action: An Audio Zine Hotwire 3 includes our rant about Labor Day, and its attempt to detract from the real workers holiday, May Day, which is covered by the very first episode of The Ex-Worker. Video of activists shutting down Canadian Border Services in Montreal, from sub.Media. Donate here to support Jeff Winder in paying his $1 fine for punching neo-Nazi Jason Kessler. Check out the following links and social media to keep up with pipeline resistance in Canada: Stop Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Call to Action Camp Cloud at KM Surveillance Post Tiny House Warriors Kwekwecnewtxw - Coast Salish Watch House Stand With Kwantlen Sacred Fire Network If you're in Europe, make your way to the Hambach Forest in Germany to help defend it, and the radical Ewok village of forest defenders who live there. Also, check out our audio documentary about the forest and the defense campaign to stop the cutting. Upcoming anarchist book fairs: September 15: The Eastern Connecticut Workers Bookfair in Parade Plaza, New London, Connecticut September 15: The 23rd annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair in Oakland, California Upcoming anti-fascist action: September 15: Stop the League of the South from disrupting TriPride in Johnson City, TN September 29: Oppose the League of the South's rally in Elizabethton, TN. Stay tuned to @HollerNetwork and @knoxradical for updates. Pre-sales are OPEN for the 2019 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar! The theme of next year's calendar is Health/Care, and it features art and writing from current and former political prisoners like David Gilbert, Mike and Chuck Africa, and Laura Whitehorn. If you buy 10 or more, be sure to use the discount code "BULK" to get 10 or more calendars for $10 each—you can then sell the calendars to fundraise for your own organizing. Orders start shipping September 10! Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write Brian Vaillancourt Alex Irwin, and Dion Ortiz. Brian Vaillancourt M42889 Robinson Correctional Center 13423 East 1150th Avenue Robinson, Illinois 62454 Birthday: September 5 Alexander Irwin #1318275 ERDCC 2727 Highway K Bonne Terre, MO 63628 Birthday: September 5 Dion Ortiz Burleigh County Detention Center Post Office Box 2499 Bismarck, North Dakota 58502 Birthday: September 10 We have a Twitter! Follow @HotwireWeekly and send us news that we should include in the show.

This week, you will hear about an anti-Nazi picnic in Avalon, PA, some brief analysis about the Nazi mob in Chemnitz, Germany and about some folks pushing back against the Pope's visit in Ireland]. We interview Michael Loadenthal, a social movement academic and former J20 defendant, about the riotization of protest and new strategies the state is using to criminalize dissent. We also continue to highlight the ways police and fascists are aligned. We give an extensive update about what we know so far about the 2018 Prison Strike and we interview two supporters who are championing the strike inside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington. Finally, we wrap up the show with political prisoner birthdays and next week's news. But, right before that-the Rebel Girl and the Riot Dog sing a duet, so seriously-listen until the end!!! Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {August 29, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {0:50} #PrisonStrike {6:30} Repression roundup {18:45} Next Week's News {32:50} Download 29:30 minutes long version. The 2018 #PrisonStrike is ongoing! Check out the Incarcerated Workers website for more information, resources, and the list of prisoner's demands. Also, episode #50 of The Ex-Worker is all about the 2016 national #PrisonStrike. Watch furry minks being liberated here! Check out our essay on Taking a Global View of Repression, exploring how states develop and share repressive strategies, and how anarchists can counter them. Now That's What I Call Kerkhophony Volume 1, the album dedicated to Jennifer Kerkhoff (the rotten scum of a prosecutor who was responsible for the J20 trials), is available here. And get your burning limo t-shirts while supplies last here. To support water protectors who've been arrested in the fight against the Bayou Bride Pipeline, you can donate to L'Eau Est La Vie at gofundme.com/nobbp. Check out this poster to learn a little more about the Vaugh Prison rebellion and to get the addresses of those being repressed in the aftermath. Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write Ronald Reed and John Bramble. John Bramble SBI# 450202 Sussex Correctional Institution P.O. Box 500 Georgetown DE 19947 Birthday: September 1 Ronald Reed #2195311 Minnesota Correctional Facility-Rush City 7600 525th Street Rush City, Minnesota 55069–2265 Birthday: August 31 We have a Twitter! Follow @HotwireWeekly and send us news that we should include in the show.

This week, you will hear updates from the Stony Creek tenant strike in Canada, some creative anti-ICE actions, and about some humorous and some of the alt-right's recent losses. We interview Maya Little about the recent toppling of a confederate statue in North Carolina on Monday. Maya shares information about the impact of the statue on campus, some history, and some initial feelings after the fall of Silent Sam. We kick off the nationwide prison strike with an interview with an outside supporter of the strike, and a reportback from an attendee of a noise demonstration outside a prison. Finally, we wrap up the show with political prisoner birthdays and next weeks news. We're glad to be back! Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {August 22, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {0:50} #PrisonStrike {7:50} Confederate monument toppling {20:10} Repression roundup {33:00} Next Week's News {40:55} [Download 29:30 minutes long version.](http://traffic.libsyn.com/exworker/RADIO_VERSION_The-Hotwire_33_PrisonStrike-kicks-off_racist-statue-toppled-in-NC_alt-right-get-self-doxxed.mp3) The August 21 #PrisonStrike has begun! Check out the Incarcerated Workers website for more information, resources, and the list of prisoner's demands. Also, episode #50 of The Ex-Worker is all about the 2016 national #PrisonStrike. Check out our newest article documenting how the confederate statue, Silent Sam, came down in North Carolina. Check out this article about Joseph Dibee – an alleged ELF fugitive who was just captured, and find out why this case matters. READ these texts written by Black Liberation Army prisoner Russel "Maroon" Shoatz: The Dragon and the Hydra The Real Resistance to Slavery in North America Black Fighting Formations Read this hilarious story about a clever trick used to get people on the far-right to dox themselves! Anarchist prisoner Sean Swain is being held in solitary. Call Director Gary Mohr at 614–387–0588 or e-mail [email protected] or [email protected] (Administrative Assistant for Mohr). You can use this script: "I am calling on behalf of Sean Swain, inmate #243–205. I am a friend of Sean. I am calling to request the ODRC grant Mr. Swain's appeal regarding his most recent disciplinary record, drop the charges, and lower his security level from 5b to 2. Mr. Swain is not a physical security risk, and there is no reason to keep him at such a high security rating where he will be unable to get the programming he needs to be eligible for rehabilitation and parole. Thank you for your consideration." Ramona Africa has been hospitalized and needs monetary support, Donate to he Go Fund Me Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write Joseph Dibee, Erik King and, Russell Maroon Shoats. Joseph Dibee #812133 Multnomah County Detention Center 11540 NE Inverness Drive Portland, Oregon 97220 Eric King #27090–045 USP Florence – High US Penitentiary PO Box 7000 Florence, CO 81226 Russell Maroon Shoatz #AF–3855 SCI Graterford Post Office Box 244 Graterford, Pennsylvania 19426 We have a Twitter! Follow @HotwireWeekly and send us news that we should include in the show.

Our first episode of the new season! This week, we look back at the long, hot summer and give an update on antifascist clashes, pipeline resistance, and ICE occupations. Hundreds gathered in Charlottesville on the anniversary of the defeat of Unite the Right, drawing attention to the increasing cozy relationship between white supremacists and the police. We interview someone from Washington, DC about opposition to the Unite the Right 2 Rally held there this past weekend. Accused ELF and ALF member, Josephy Dibee was extradited to the US from Cuba and is being held in jail in Oregon. There are updates on the nationwide prison strike set to start on August 21 and list a whole slew of solidarity events you could attend. Finally, we wrap up the show with political prisoner birthdays and next weeks news. We're glad to be back! Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {August 15, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Hot Summer Recap {2:20} Commemorating #Charlottesville {9:20} Fighting Fascism in DC {17:40} Repression Roundup {32:00} Next Week's News {37:50} Download 29:30 minutes long version. We have a Twitter! Follow @HotwireWeekly and send us news that we should include in the show. Read the flyer passed out by UVA Students United about why they chose to boycott the police-controlled rally at the site of last year's fascist torch march in Charlottesville. Get involved in the #PrisonStrike, August 21-September 9 It's Going Down has a comprehensive list of #PrisonStrike resources and support activities you can get active with. August 21 noise demos outside prisons and jails: Boston, 6 PM: a vigil at the South Bay House of Corrections. Corona, California: at 7:30 PM outside the Institution for Women Los Angeles: at 7:30 PM outside the Twin Towers Jail Minneapolis: Elliot Park at 8 PM Brooklyn, New York: at 7 PM outside the Metropolitan Detention Center Philadelphia: outside the Juvenile Justice Services Center at 7 PM Seattle: Red Square at 1 PM Leipzig, Germany: outside the US Consulate at 5 PM Anarchist texts and podcasts for this Hotwire: The Ex-Worker #50: The History and Future of Prison Strikes and Solidarity "Last Year They Came with Torches—This Year They Come with Badges"—A Report from Charlottesville, August 11, 2018 To the Charlottesville Anti-Fascists: A Message from the Mothers of Murdered Anti-Fascists in France Who Needs Fascists When We Have Police? Reflections on the Anti-Fascist Mobilization in Portland of August 4 It's Going Down's Twitter thread about the influence of the alt-right on how police treat anti-fascists Check out this photo gallery of a very good riot dog, Loukanikos. Bork bork! Anarchist prisoner Sean Swain is being held in solitary. Call Director Gary Mohr at 614–387–0588 or e-mail [email protected] or [email protected] (Administrative Assistant for Mohr). You can use this script: "I am calling on behalf of Sean Swain, inmate #243–205. I am a friend of Sean. I am calling to request the ODRC grant Mr. Swain's appeal regarding his most recent disciplinary record, drop the charges, and lower his security level from 5b to 2. Mr. Swain is not a physical security risk, and there is no reason to keep him at such a high security rating where he will be unable to get the programming he needs to be eligible for rehabilitation and parole. Thank you for your consideration." Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write Joseph Dibee, [Hanif Shabazz Bey]((https://www.thejerichomovement.com/profile/hanif-shabazz-bey), and Little Feather. JOSEPH DIBEE #812133 Multnomah County Detention Center 11540 NE Inverness Drive Portland, Oregon 97220 Joseph is pre-trial, so remember not to refer to his case or write about anything illegal HANIF SHABAZZ BEY Tallahatchie Correctional Facility 415 US Highway 49N Tutwiler, MS 38963 Address envelope Beaumont GereAu LITTLE FEATHER Michael Giron 25201–075 USP Hazelton U.S. Penitentiary PO Box 2000 Bruceton Mills, WV 26525 address envelope to Michael Giron

Our last episode of the season! This episode is chocked full of May Day repression updates—from FBI visits in Washington state to the dozens of anarchists rounded up in Indonesia. The New School in New York City is occupied once again, and we have an audio report! The next J20 trial begins in less than a week. Teachers, tenants, and fast food workers are getting organized and striking back against their bosses and landlords. We close the episode with a long list of summertime anarchist fun that you can get into before we're back in the fall with more Hotwires. Make sure to check out our listeners survey and e-mail it to us! {May 9, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines: {1:22} Repression Roundup {15:40} Next Week's News {24:20} Download 29:30 minutes long version LISTENER SURVEY (please e-mail to [email protected]) 1) How often do you listen to the Hotwire? - More than once a week - Weekly - Once a month - Once a month or more, but I binge multiple episodes at once 2) How often, if ever, do you use… - The shownotes? - The phone numbers for call-in campaigns? - Next Week's News announcements? - References to past episodes and other podcasts 3) What are the Hotwire's greatest strengths? Biggest weaknesses? 4) Our shows have progressively increased from 30 minutes to up to 45 minutes. Is keeping the show to strictly 30 minutes important? How long is too long for an episode? 5) What topics are most useful/interesting when we cover them? What kind of coverage is lacking? Dozens of anarchists have been rounded up in Indonesia, and legal defense funds are needed. Go here to find out how to help. J20 support: Countering State Repression With Daniel McGowan Thursday, May 10 at 7 PM St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church 1525 Newton St NW, Washington DC, 20010 Free Rally to Drop J20 with Chelsea Manning and former defendants Friday, May 11 at 12:30 PM Franklin Square, Washington DC Call-in campaign May 10–11. Please be aware that your calls are likely recorded and we do not advise answering any questions about your identity. Please use your best discretion if referencing anything that occured on January 20th so as to not negatively impact the ongoing case. Jennifer Kerkhoff – Lead Prosectuor on the case, Deputy Chief of the Felony Major Crimes Trial Section (202) 252–7380 Lisa Greene – The Deputy Chief of the Superior Court Division, Kerkhoff's direct supervisor (202) 252–7485 Richard Tischner – The Chief of the Superior Court Division, Kerkhoff's direct supervisor (202) 252–7274 US Attorney for DC Jessie Liu – The person in charge of the US Attorney's office, a Trump appointee (202) 252–7566 Rizwan Qureshi - Assistant J20 prosecutor (general line - use directory/operator) (202) 252–7679 John Gidez – The Chief of the Felony Major Crimes Trial Section, Kerkhoff's colleague (202) 252–6752 John Borchert - Assistant J20 prosecutor (esp. Dreamhost and Facebook warrants) (202) 252–7679 Here's a sample script to get you started! "Hello. My name is __________. (first name is fine) I am calling about the inauguration day protesters still facing trumped up criminal charges. Your office needs to drop these remaining charges. There is no good reason your office should be pursuing these charges when six people have already been found NOT GUILTY on all counts in the first trial. Again, your office should drop the remaining charges. Over the last year these prosecutions have pushed all limits: Intimidation to coerce plea deals by making inflated charges. Shielding law enforcement from public accountability by issuing gag orders. Disrupting people's lives by making overblown charges and using those to justify intrusive, extensive investigations meant to build those cases. overall strategy to intimidate activists, disrupt social movements and silence dissent by weaponizing the use of trumped up charges is not going unnoticed. Your office has the power to end the repression and intimidation. Drop the charges now." Sub.Media's Spring 2018 Media Mash-up Tour: May 11, Portland State University Workshop 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Public screening 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Smith Memorial Union 026 Hosted by Radical Education PSU May 12, The University of Oregon 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Hosted by Radical Organizing and Activism Resource Center & the Civil Liberties Defense Center May 13, Seattle University May 14, Olympia, Washington Chop Chop Video Making workshop Multimedia Lab 1404 in the Library Building Monday, May 14th 2018 * Workshop from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. *Ten participant limit! Email [email protected]. Public Screening at Traditions Fair Trade 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. 300 5th Ave SW, Olympia, WA Hosted by The Black Cottonwood Collective Mutual Aid Disaster Relief tour May 11 at 6 PM at Bad River Dept of Social & Family Services 72772 Elm Street, Odanah, WI 54861 May 12 at 10 AM at Bad River Dept of Social & Family Services 72772 Elm Street, Odanah, WI 54861 May 14 at 4 PM at YWCA Wausau 613

Our annual roundup of worldwide May Day actions. We have interviews with participants in May Day actions in Puerto Rico, where there was a general strike, and Paris, whose black bloc didn't only take the cake, they took the whole damn bakery! Indonesia saw black blocs erupt all over the country, and now a wave of politically-motivated arrests there are targeting anarchists. In the USA, opposition to ICE and deportations was one clear theme, and the calls for decentralized actions did yield some spikey vandalism in the Pacific Northwest. We also have a short update about what's happening at La ZAD. {May 3, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} The importance of supporting anarchist media {2:00} Worldwide May Day headlines {3:40} Interview: Paris May Day {10:50} Interview: ZAD update {18:10} North America May Day headlines {22:50} Interview: May Day general strike in Puerto Rico {32:50} Repression Roundup and Next Week's News {40:00} Download 29:30 minutes long version North American May Day roundup Worldwide May Day roundup In case you didn't catch it, for May Day we released a very special episode with the best of anarchist news reporting over the last few centuries May/June: a month of anarchy in Quebec The anarchist film festival (May 17–20 in Montreal) The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (May 22–23 in Montreal) The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 26–27 in Montreal) The North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference (June 1–3 in Montreal) Anti-G7 mobilization (June 7–9 in Quebec City) Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write to an anarchist prisoner and wish them a happy beltaned May Day. You can find a list of anarchist prisoners in the Americas here. Also, please write a letter to Cedar, a comrade in Ontario who is in jail over conspiracy charges stemming from the March 5 anti-gentrification march in Hamilton, Ontario. Please address the envelope to Peter Hopperton and the letters to Cedar: Peter Hopperton Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre 165 Barton St East Hamilton ON L8L 2W6 J20 support resources: POSTER: The J20 Prosecution—Trumped up Charges J20 Legal Defense Fund Twitter Fed book An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful "do"s and "don't"s Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained Tell the prosecutor's boss to drop the charges by calling (202) 252–7566

Happy May Day! Find an action near you HERE. To celebrate the anniversary of the strike that led to Haymarket, and the 8 anarchists executed for it (two of whom were anarchist media producers themselves!) we bring you our favorite anarchist news reporting from throughout history. As an anarchist news show ourselves, we wanted to pay homage to all the anarchist newspapers, zines, and other media projects that have inspired us. You'll hear reports from as far back as the Paris Commune, the punny and irreverent 1980s British organization Class War, a 1977 article in Fifth Estate about this newfangled thing called punk rock, coverage of the very first nationwide-called-for black bloc in the US, a firsthand report from the streets of Seattle in 1999, and much more. We'll even have guest appearances by other anarchist podcasters, like MC Sole, the Stimulator, The Final Straw's William Goodenuff, and our friends from Resonance Audio Distro. We'll air our regular weekly episode on Thursday, May 3—a day late—so that we can include as much May Day 2018 coverage as possible. Please e-mail us your May Day action reports by May 2 at [email protected]. {May 1, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} May Day and colonial desertion in the new world {2:55} The Paris Commune {9:55} Haymarket {11:40} May Day 1971: mass coordinated direct action and repression in Washington D.C. {15:08} When punk was new(s) {16:25} Class War UK {26:15} The first American black bloc {32:40} N30: Seattle 1999 {38:20} A choir of criminals {1:00:40} News from the balcony with Waldorf & Statler {1:11:55} Trotsky's ash cookies {1:21:10} G20 Toronto 2010: the end of the world as we know it, or the beginning of the revolution? {1:23:40} Find a May Day celebration or demonstration near you and HIT THE STREETS! Listen to the history of Haymarket and May Day on our very first episode of The Ex-Worker. Anarchist texts related to this Hotwire: The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day by Peter Linebaugh March 18, 1871: The Birth of the Paris Commune A Narrative Address of August Spies The Liberation News Service, a Washington DC-based collective with anarchist participants. They collected resistance and counter-culture news from all over the world and syndicated it to different underground publications in the 1960s and 70s—sort of like a radical Reuters. Ending a war, inventing a movement: Mayday 1971 Punk Rock: Musical Fad or "Radical Kernel" from the December 1977 issue of The Fifth Estate, the longest running English language anarchist publication in North America The Power is Running: A Memoir of N30 Shutting Down the WTO Summit in Seattle, 1999 Green Anarchy Magazine The May Days: Snapshots from the History of May Day About our Black Bloc historiography: we put in a few hours researching the history of the Black Bloc in North America before making the claim that the 1991 anti-Gulf War actions in DC saw the first Black Bloc in North America. While Black Bloc tactics, including dark clothing and masks, featured in protests in Berkeley, Minneapolis, and New York in the late 80s, as far as we can tell the first call including the term "Black Block" was for the anti-Gulf War protest in Washington DC in 1991. We're willing to be proven wrong though! Fundraising: Donate to the legal support fund for the four people charged over last year's May Day actions in Olympia. Our guest podcasters include: William Goodenuff from The Final Straw MC Sole from The Solecast Resonance Audio Distro The Stimulator Start gearing up for a summer of anarchy in Quebec! The anarchist film festival (May 17–20 in Montreal) The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (May 22–23 in Montreal) The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 26–27 in Montreal) The North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference (June 1–3 in Montreal) Anti-G7 mobilization (June 7–9 in Quebec City) Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to send May Day greetings to some anarchist prisoners, like Cedar, a comrade in Ontario who is in jail over conspiracy charges stemming from the March 5 anti-gentrification march in Hamilton, Ontario. Please address the envelope to Peter Hopperton and the letters to Cedar: Peter Hopperton Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre 165 Barton St East Hamilton ON L8L 2W6 J20 support resources: POSTER: The J20 Prosecution—Trumped up Charges J20 Legal Defense Fund Twitter Fed book An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful "do"s and "don't"s Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained Tell the prosecutor's boss to drop the charges by calling (202) 252–7566

This Hotwire we bring you an interview with an anarchist in Managua about the past few weeks of anti-government revolt in Nicaragua. We also report on the arrests of anti-fascists in Georgia, a school bus drivers' strike also in Georgia, a hunger strike in San Diego's jails, and community resistance to ICE raids in North Carolina. Next week we'll bring you our regular episode a day late, but look out for a May Day special we're releasing to tide you over—and don't forget to e-mail us your May Day action reports at [email protected]! {April 25, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:30} Interview: A Week of Revolt in Nicaragua {16:40} Repression Roundup {27:10} Next Week's News {32:55} Download 29:30 minutes long version Events this weekend: April 26–29: The Southeast Trans and/or Women Action Camp in the smoky mountains of western North Carolina. Find out more by e-mailing [email protected]. April 26–28: the Anarchist Black Cross solidarity festival at EKH in Vienna, Austria. April 28–29: The Revolutionary Organizing Against Racism Conference (ROAR) returns to Ohlone land, the so-called Bay Area, California, in both Oakland and San Francisco. April 29: MACC in NYC is hosting a pre-May Day gathering in Tompkins Square Park at 1 PM. MAY DAY! In Montreal, anarchists will gather at 6 PM on the corner of Amherst and Sherbrooke. New York City: anarchist contingent in the big May Day march. Durham, NC: autonomous actions and a march starting at the old Durham Police headquarters at 6 PM. Seattle, WA: decentralized, autonomous actions Olympia. WA: decentralized, autonomous actions Portland, OR: coordinated, decentralized actions Eugene, OR: a really free market at the First Christian Church on Oak Street. Los Angeles, CA: a disruptive march Make sure to e-mail your May Day action reports to [email protected] by May 2 so we can include them in our May Day roundup. Fundraising: Donate to the anti-fascists arrested in Newnan, Georgia on Saturday while protesting against neo-Nazis. Donate to the legal support fund for the four people charged over last year's May Day actions in Olympia. Other podcasts mentioned on this Hotwire: Unicorn Riot and End of the Line podcast are keeping people up to date as the struggle against the Mountain Valley Pipeline unfolds. We sample Alanis' aetheistic rant from The Ex-Worker Holiday Special before we lambast The Church of Satan. Hotwire 19 describes the anti-ICE organizing going on in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Episode 50 of The Ex-Worker has an interview with about the Lucasville prison uprising and how it informs contemporary prison rebellion and organizing We sampled the 99% Invisible episode "Church (Sanctuary, Part 1)" when discussing the sanctuary movement of the 1980s. Part 2 is also great. Get inspired to do something AWESOME for May Day by listening to the very first episode of The Ex-Worker, which is all about Haymarket. Anarchist texts related to this Hotwire: From Confronting Fascists to Facing the Police State: Reflections on the Anti-Fascist Mobilization in Newnan, Georgia God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin June 11: The History of a Day of Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity The May Days: Snapshots from the History of May Day Start gearing up for a summer of anarchy in Quebec! The anarchist film festival (May 17–20 in Montreal) The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (May 22–23 in Montreal) The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 26–27 in Montreal) The North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference (June 1–3 in Montreal) Anti-G7 mobilization (June 7–9 in Quebec City) Mutual Aid Disaster Relief tour April 25, 26, and 27 at 5:00 PM at Youth Initiative High School 500 East Jefferson St Viroqua, WI 54665 April 28 at 5:30 PM at Menomonie Market Food Co-op 814 Main Street E Menomonie, WI 54751 April 29 at 10:00 AM at Family & Learning Center 523 Cedar Ave. E. Menomonie, WI 54751 May 2 at 6:00 PM at Walker Community Church 3104 16th Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55407 May 3 at 6:00 PM at UROC 2001 Plymouth Avenue North Minneapolis, MN 55411 Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write birthday greetings to political prisoner Janine Phillips Africa. Janine Phillips Africa #006309 SCI Cambridge Springs 451 Fullerton Avenue Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania 16403 {Birthday: April 25} Also, please write a letter to Cedar, a comrade in Ontario who is in jail over conspiracy charges stemming from the March 5 anti-gentrification march in Hamilton, Ontario. Please address the envelope to Peter Hopperton and the letters to Cedar: Peter Hopperton Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre 165 Barton St East Hamilton ON L8L 2W6 Phone zaps: Call the warden of Central Ohio Correctional Facility at 330–743–0700 and use this script: "Hello, my name is _____. I'm calling to demand you reverse Friday's policy changes that imposed new restrictions on prisoners impacted by the Lucasville upri

It's been a week of battle at La ZAD, and we share a day-to-day play-by-play of the resistance to the government's eviction operation. Elsewhere in France, the Tarnac Nine's legal victory shows that with a little luck and courage, we can beat the state. Direct action gets the goods for a university occupation against a racist student body president at Texas State University in San Marcos, we finally have an address where you can write Cedar, who is in jail on charges of conspiracy over the anti-gentrification prole stroll in Hamilton, Ontario, and we close the episode by sharing calls for May Day actions in Los Angeles, Eugene, Portland, Olympia, and Seattle. {April 18, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Down with the state and its taxes! {0:33} A week of battle over La Zad {3:25} Headlines {11:00} Legal victory for the Tarnac Nine! {20:25} Next Week's News {26:56} Download 29:30 minutes long version Check out these full reports of resistance to the eviction of la ZAD. Enough is Enough continue to have live updates in English from la ZAD. E-mail [email protected] for ways to support those facing multiple charges for allegedly defacing a police station in Arizona the same weekend as an anti-fascist, anti-colonial gathering. To hear more about Turning Point USA's alt-lite politics and campaigns of harassing leftist and anarchist presences at universities, check out the Black Rose Anarchist Federation's interview with Kristina Khan, or the IGDcast interview with Tariq Khan, an anarchist PhD candidate at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. CALLS FOR MAY DAY ACTION: Los Angeles: a disruptive march Eugene, Oregon: a really free market Portland, Oregon: coordinated, decentralized actions Seattle: coordinated, decentralized actions Olympia: coordinated, decentralized actions Other shows mentioned on this Hotwire: Hotwire #26 has our interview with a participant in the Syrian Revolution, who states, "freedom and justice… can only be achieved through a struggle against all authoritarian murderous parties, whether Assad or Islamist jihadists on the one hand or Russia and the U.S. on the other hand." Episode 50 of The Ex-Worker has an interview with about the Lucasville prison uprising and how it informs contemporary prison rebellion and organizing Get inspired to do something AWESOME for May Day by listening to the very first episode of The Ex-Worker, which is all about Haymarket. Anarchist texts mentioned in this Hotwire: We Don't Need Gun Control, We Need To Take Control June 11: The History of a Day of Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity The May Days: Snapshots from the History of May Day Start gearing up for a summer of anarchy in Quebec! The anarchist film festival (May 17–20 in Montreal) The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (May 22–23 in Montreal) The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 26–27 in Montreal) The North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference (June 1–3 in Montreal) Anti-G7 mobilization (June 7–9 in Quebec City) The Southeast Trans and/or Women Action Camp, taking place April 26–29 in Western North Carolina, has had their donation page shut down twice, so if you have some bucks to spare you can donate at PayPal.me/setwac2018. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief tourdates this week: April 18 at 6 PM at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee 2200 E Kenwood Blvd Milwaukee, WI 53211: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness April 19 at 5 PM at University of Wisconsin – Rock County 2909 Kellogg Ave Janesville, WI 53546: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism April 20 at 12 PM at Angelic Organics Learning Center 1545 Rockton Rd Caledonia, IL 61011: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness April 25 at 5:00 PM at Youth Initiative High School 500 East Jefferson St Viroqua, WI 54665: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write birthday greetings to political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Janine Phillips Africa. Mumia Abu-Jamal AM8335 SCI Mahanoy 301 Morea Road Frackville, Pennsylvania 17932 {Birthday: April 24} Janine Phillips Africa #006309 SCI Cambridge Springs 451 Fullerton Avenue Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania 16403 {Birthday: April 25} Also, please write a letter to Cedar, the comrade in Ontario who was arrested last week over conspiracy charges stemming from the March 5 anti-gentrification march in Hamilton, Ontario. They are currently being held in segregation, so these letters are especially crucial for helping break the isolation they might experience in prison. Please address the envelope to Peter Hopperton, but address the letters to Cedar: Peter Hopperton Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre 165 Barton St East Hamilton ON L8L 2W6 J20 support resources: POSTER: The J20 Prosecution—Trumped up Char

As we go to press, hundreds of squatters and eco-rebels are battling against cops at La ZAD in France. We interview someone there, as well as a participant in The Syrian Revolution about the no-state-solution to the Syrian government's ongoing attacks on rebel areas. The treesits in West Virginia against the Mountain Valley Pipeline are expanding. Anarchist prisoner Sean Swain needs support. {April 11, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:30} Rebellion across France {5:07} Interview about Douma, Syria and the Syria Revolution {17:54} Repression Roundup {25:40} Next Week's News {33:53} Download 29:30 minutes long version J20 support resources: POSTER: The J20 Prosecution—Trumped up Charges J20 Legal Defense Fund Twitter Fed book An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful "do"s and "don't"s Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained Tell the prosecutor's boss to drop the charges by calling (202) 252–7566 Enough is Enough has live updates in English from the resistance to the eviction of la ZAD. Check out the Anarchy in Action page about the Syrian Revolution for more anarchist perspectives on it. Please donate to help The Tower anarchist social center in Hamilton, Ontario recover from a fascist attack on their space. Other shows mentioned on this Hotwire: End of the Line, an ongoing podcast about the pipeline struggles in Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic. The Fucking News from Sub.Media The Final Straw: Charlotte Uprising: Repression and Resistance Go On Episode 50 of The Ex-Worker has an interview with about the Lucasville prison uprising and how it informs contemporary prison rebellion and organizing Get inspired to do something AWESOME for May Day by listening to the very first episode of The Ex-Worker, which is all about Haymarket. Anarchist texts mentioned in this Hotwire: We Don't Need Gun Control, We Need To Take Control June 11: The History of a Day of Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity The May Days: Snapshots from the History of May Day La ZAD: Another End of the World Is Possible The Southeast Trans and/or Women Action Camp, taking place April 26–29 in Western North Carolina, has had their donation page shut down twice, so if you have some bucks to spare you can donate at PayPal.me/setwac2018. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief tour April 11 at 6:30 PM at First Presbyterian Church 510 W Ottawa St Lansing, MI 48933: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness April 13 at 6 PM at The Boiling Point 143 Burr Oak Street Kalamazoo, MI 49001: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism April 14 at 12 PM at The Boiling Point 143 Burr Oak Street Kalamazoo, MI 49001: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness April 15 at 6 PM at Girls, Inc 1108 W 8th St Bloomington, IN 47404: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism April 16 at 3 PM at Girls, Inc 1108 W 8th St Bloomington, IN 47404: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness April 17 at 6 PM at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee 2200 E Kenwood Blvd Milwaukee, WI 53211: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism April 18 at 6 PM at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee 2200 E Kenwood Blvd Milwaukee, WI 53211: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write birthday greetings to political prisoners Janet Holloway Africa and Walter Bond. Janet Holloway Africa #006308 SCI Cambridge Springs 451 Fullerton Avenue Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania 16403 {Birthday: April 13} Walter Bond #37096–013 FCI Terre Haute - CMU Post Office Box 33 Terre Haute, Indiana 47808 {Birthday: April 16} Herman Bell still needs help to secure his release from prison: 1) CALL New York State Governor Cuomo's Office NOW: 518–474–8390 2) EMAIL New York State Governor Cuomo's Office 3) TWEET at Governor Cuomo: use the following sample tweet: "@NYGovCuomo: stand by the Parole Board's lawful & just decision to release Herman Bell. At 70 years old and after more than 40 years of incarceration, his release is overdue. #BringHermanHome." Use this script for phone calls and emails: "Governor Cuomo, my name is __________and I am a resident of [New York State/other state/other country]. I support the Parole Board's decision to release Herman Bell and urge you and the Board to stand by the decision. I also support the recent appointment of new Parole Board Commissioners, and the direction of the new parole regulations, which base release decisions more on who a person is today than on the nature of their crime committed years ago. Returning Herman to his friends and family will help heal the many harms caused by crime and decades of incarceration. The Board's decision was just, merciful and lawful, and it wil

As we go to press, anti-police protests are ongoing over the police killing of Stephon Clark, students at Howard University in DC are still occupying the recently re-named Kwame Ture Student Center, and teachers in Kentucky and Oklahoma are on strike. This week we interview Uri Gordon, an anarchist from Israel, about the deadly repression in Gaza. We also reflect on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plus announcements for upcoming bookfairs, gatherings, and protest mobilizations. {April 4, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:45} Remembering Paul Z. Simons {5:07} Interview about deadly repression in Gaza {6:34} Teachers strike in Kentucky and Oklahoma {11:05} 50th anniversary of the assassination of MLK {13:25} Repression Roundup {26:15} Next Week's News {32:00} Download 29:30 minutes long version There's a day of solidarity with J20 defendants called for April 10. The next trial is coming up April 17! Use this poster to spread awareness about the case, or call those responsible for the repression themselves and tell them to drop ALL the charges. J20 support resources: J20 Legal Defense Fund Twitter Fed book An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful "do"s and "don't"s Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained Resources for the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Reflection On Doctor King by Black anarchist and former Black Panther Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed - Charles Cobb Dixie Be Damned: 300 years of insurrection in the American South - Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford "It's a Police State Mentality" — J20 and the Racist Origins of Criminalizing Protest – Sam Adler-Bell Dr. King's Long Assassination – Paul Street The Ex-Worker #53: "Anti-Globalization" Walking Tour of Washington, D.C. features some history on the uprising in DC after Dr. King's assassination, including an interview with one of the more militant participants. Events this weekend: April 6–8: Anti-Colonial & Anti-Fascist Community Defense Gathering in Flagstaff, Arizona. Registration IS required, which you can fill out here. April 6–8: The Opening Space for the Radical Imagination at Oregon State University in Corvallis. More than a few anarchist-sympathetic speakers, like Walidah Imarisha and Hillary Lazar are speaking. April 6–8: The fourteenth Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair in Croatia. For more info in Croatian and English, go to ask-zagreb.org. April 7: The Liverpool Anarchist Bookfair in England. Anarchist texts mentioned in this Hotwire: We Don't Need Gun Control, We Need To Take Control Remembering Paul Z. Simons An Unyielding Anarchist, Author, and Rebel Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle Dixie Be Damned: 300 years of insurrection in the American South Rojava: Democracy and Commune From Democracy to Freedom Start gearing up for a summer of anarchy in Quebec! The anarchist film festival (May 17–20 in Montreal) The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (May 22–23 in Montreal) The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 26–27 in Montreal) The North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference (June 1–3 in Montreal) Anti-G7 mobilization (June 7–9 in Quebec City) The Southeast Trans and/or Women Action Camp, taking place April 26–29 in Western North Carolina, has had their donation page shut down twice, so if you have some bucks to spare you can donate at PayPal.me/setwac2018. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief tour April 4 @ 7 PM at Glitter Box Theater 460 Melwood Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness April 6 @ 6 PM at Guide to Kulchur 5222 Lorain Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism April 7 @ 12 noon at Guide to Kulchur 5222 Lorain Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness April 8 at 2 PM at Off Center 64 N. Huron Street, Ypsilanti, MI 48197: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness April 9 at 6:30 PM at Capital Area District Library – Downtown 401 S Capitol Ave, Lansing, MI 48933: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism April 11 at 6:30 PM at First Presbyterian Church 510 W Ottawa St Lansing, MI 48933: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write birthday greetings to political prisoner Romaine 'Chip' Fitzgerald. Romaine 'Chip' Fitzgerald #B–27527 California State Prison - LAC Post Office Box 4490 B–4–150 Lancaster, California 93539 Address envelope to Romaine Fitzgerald, address card to Chip {Birthday: April 11} Herman Bell still needs help to secure his release from prison: 1) CALL New York State Go

As we go to press, protests in Sacramento and beyond are ongoing over the police murder of Stephon Clark. We interview an anarchist sex worker about the new FOSTA-SESTA bill and its impact on sex workers' safety and organizing. We also feature an interview with a comrade from Quebec about the anti-capitalist mobilization against the G7 summit in Quebec in June. Don't miss our roundup of #DefendAfrin actions that took place on March 24, or our reflections on the political moment we're in after the March For Our Lives. {March 28, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:35} FOSTA-SESTA interview {5:23} Sacramento against killer cops {11:07} March For Our Lives {12:35} #DefendAfrin actions roundup {16:50} Repression Roundup {24:25} Next Week's News {29:45} Download 29:30 minutes long version CrimethInc. texts mentioned in this Hotwire: We Don't Need Gun Control, We Need To Take Control Why the Torture Cases in Russia Matter: How the Tactics that the Russian State Uses against Anarchists Could Spread Other anarchist shows mentioned in this Hotwire: In Hotwire 22 we cover the controversial anti-gentrification black bloc in Hamilton, Ontario The Ex-Worker #53: "Anti-Globalization" Walking Tour of Washington, D.C. This Is Parkdale, a documentary about grassroots tenant organizing in Toronto Start gearing up for a summer of anarchy in Quebec! The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 26–27) The anarchist theatre festival (May 22–23 in Montreal) The anarchist film festival (May 17–20 in Montreal) The North American Studies Network Conference (June 1–3 in Montreal) Anti-G7 mobilization (June 7–9 in Quebec City) Fundraising: Crimean anarchist political prisoner Evgeny Karakashev is in need of support. You can donate by PayPaling money to [email protected], and please mention "for Evgeny Karakashev." In the wake of FOSTA-SESTA, there are groups like Saint James Infirmary, Red Light Legal, and a new group called New Whore-izons which are all focusing in different ways on redistributing both and wealth and resources by sex workers and for sex workers. The Southeast Trans and/or Women Action Camp has had their donation page shut down twice, so if you have some bucks to spare you can donate at PayPal.me/setwac2018. Indigenous water protector Mason Neck is also in need of help. You can donate to his commissary here (TO MASON NECK, HUGHES COUNTY), and you can send him letters and books here: MASON NECK HUGHES COUNTY PRISON 3100 E. HWY 34 PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA 57501 Author Mark Bray speaking about his book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook Thursday, March 29: Appalachian State University, NC, 7 PM in Belk Library, Room 114 Mutual Aid Disaster Relief tour March 30 @ 6 PM at The Park Church 208 W Gray St Elmira, NY 14901: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism March 31 @ 10 AM at The Park Church 208 W Gray St Elmira, NY 14901: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness April 2 @ 6:30 PM at Pittsburgh Public Library, Pittsburgh, PA: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism April 3 @ 7 PM at Glitter Box Theater 460 Melwood Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness April 4 @ 7 PM at Glitter Box Theater 460 Melwood Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write birthday greetings to political prisoners Chuck Sims Africa and Delbert Africa. Charles Sims Africa #AM–4975 SCI Dallas 1000 Follies Road Dallas, Pennsylvania 18612 {Birthday: April 2} Delbert Orr Africa #AM–4985 SCI Dallas 1000 Follies Road Dallas, Pennsylvania 18612 {Birthday: April 2} J20 support resources: J20 Legal Defense Fund Twitter Fed book An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful "do"s and "don't"s Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained Corrections & Clarifications: We were just going to press last week when reports about actions for the week of solidarity with Russian anarchist prisoners were coming in. We want to update our list to mention that solidarity rallies and marches were also held in Stockholm; Helsinki; Kharkiv; Prague; Turku, Finland; Brno; Barcelona; Bern; Leipzig; and Canberra, Australia. Last episode we incorrectly reported that Herman Bell was released. Rather, he was granted release on parole after over four decades in prison—hurrah! But now New York City's mayor, the governor, and the police unions are trying to reverse that decision. Here's what you can do to support Herman: 1) CALL New York State Governor Cuomo's Office NOW: 518–474–8390 2) EMAIL New York State Governor Cuomo's Office 3) TWEET at Governor Cuomo: use the following sample tweet: "@NYGovCuomo: stand by the Parole Board's lawful & just decision to release Herman Bell. At 70 years old

Hundreds of thousands of high school students defy adult authority and walkout against mass shootings; anti-pipeline camps hold strong from Virginia to West Virginia to so-called British Columbia; we interview an anarchist in Brazil as protests erupt there after an anti-police brutality politician was assassinated; the annual march against police brutality in Montreal beats cops back; Russian anarchists explain in an interview why it's not just Putin that's the problem, or Trump for that matter, but the systems of power they inhabit; plus a repression round up, announcements for Saturday's international day of action to #DefendAfrin, and calls for exciting upcoming anarchist bookfairs and speaking tours. {March 21, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:50} Interview: anti-police brutality protests erupt in Brazil {6:47} Interview: anarchists stand up to elections and repression in Russia {15:05} Historic student walkouts roundup {21:02} Repression Roundup {26:55} Next Week's News {32:27} Download 29:30 minutes long version Youth liberation texts, possibly to be used by anti-authoritarian youth looking to connect with others at March For Our Lives events on March 24: Gun Control? No, Youth Liberation! Mass Shootings—School Walkouts—Getting Free No! Against Adult Supremacy The Child and its Enemies Youth Liberation Anarchism and Youth Liberation The Teenage Liberation Handbook Make sure to check out the new blog Cutting Class, counterinfo for the ungovernable generation. Saturday, March 24 is also the international day of solidarity to defend Afrin. Find an event near you. J20 support resources: J20 Legal Defense Fund Twitter Fed book An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful "do"s and "don't"s Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained Other anarchist shows mentioned in this Hotwire: Check out this video report from the March 15 demonstrations against police brutality in Montreal This video report documents some of the anti-pipeline resistance from Camp Cloud up in Burnaby Mountain, British Columbia. Check out episode 30 of The Ex-Worker to listen to an interview with Tortuga, an anarchist in Chile who openly admits to attempting to bomb a closed bank and who faced anti-terrorism charges for it. Watch this documentary about the 2010 Caso Bombas repression case in Chile. In Hotwire #21 we report on the opposition Richard Spencer and the alt-right faced in Michigan In Hotwire #19 we explain why radical social movements are better equipped to solve the problem of mass shootings than the state is In Hotwire #16 we announced Herman Bell's parole efforts Trouble #9: Learning to Resist Trouble #10: School's Out IGDcast: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief on Building Dual Power & Upcoming Tour You can read The Coming Insurrection here, we particularly enjoyed the sixth circle. We also recommend watching Glenn Beck's hilarious review of the book. Fundraising: Donate to the anti-Mountain Valley Pipeline treesitters in West Virginia. Donate here to support Alejandra Pablos, an undocumented activist in the clutches of ICE as a result of her outspokenness. You can PayPal money to support anarchists and anti-fascists facing repression in Russia through [email protected]. We recommend to send euros or dollars, as other currencies are automatically converted to euro according to PayPal rates.In case you need another option for money transfer, including digital crypto currencies, please contact the Anarchist Black Cross of Moscow: [email protected] Author Mark Bray speaking tour on his book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook Thursday, March 22: The Civic Theatre, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada Monday, March 26: Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY Tuesday, March 27: Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Thursday, March 29: Appalachian State University, NC, 7 PM in Belk Library, Room 114 Mutual Aid Disaster Relief tour March 21 @ 3:00 PM at Friends Meeting House 1104 Forest St. Charlottesville, VA 22903: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness March 23 @ 7 PM at The Base 1286 Myrtle Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11221: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism March 24 @ 12 PM at The Base 1286 Myrtle Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11221: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness March 27 @ 5:30 PM at St. Mark's Episcopal Church 42 N Eagleville Rd., Storrs, CT 06268 : Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism March 28 @ 1 PM at St. Mark's Episcopal Church 42 N Eagleville Rd., Storrs, CT 06268 : Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write to political prisoner Jaan Laaman of the United Freedom Front: Jaan Karl Laaman #10372–016 USP McCreary Post Office Box 3000 Pine Knot, Kentucky 42635 {Birthday: March 21,

This episode we bring you two roundups: one for women's strike actions on International Women's Day, and another for #DefendAfrin actions across Europe. We also share a call for and international day of solidarity to #DefendAfrin on March 24. The West Virginia teachers' strike has ended, and we share our complicated takeaways from the longest strike in West Virginia history. The alt-right is unraveling, but anti-fascists arrested in Michigan last week still need your help. Things are heating up in Hamilton, Ontario as anarchists demonstrate against gentrification and face right-wing backlash for it. Listen until the end for announcements of speaking tours, J20 updates, political prisoner birthdays, and upcoming anarchist bookfairs. {March 14, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:30} International Women's Day roundup {5:30} #DefendAfrin solidarity {10:50} West Virginia teachers' strike ends {14:40} Repression Roundup {21:10} Next Week's News {26:50} Download 29:30 minutes long version March 15 is the 22nd annual March Against Police Brutality in Montreal. The march meets at 7:30 PM at Parc LaFontaine. March 24 is the Defend Afrin International Day of Action. Go to TheNAKA.org to find out more about the day of action or to register your own local event. J20 support resources: West Coast J20 solidarity speaking tour J20 Legal Defense Fund Twitter Fed book An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful "do"s and "don't"s Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained Other anarchist shows mentioned in this Hotwire: The Ex-Worker #49 contains the excerpt we used about spreading anti-cop sentiment through service worker solidarity. We are currently in the middle of a week of solidarity with anarchists in Russia. To find out more about the repression anarchists face in Russia, check out this recent episode of The Final Straw podcast, which has an interview with someone from Moscow Anarchist Black Cross. For a history of the amazing occupation of the Hambacher Forest, check out episode 37 of The Ex-Worker. The episode "Striking Gets the Goods" on the number one anarcho-comedy podcast Street Fight Radio has a really great on-the-ground interview with one striking West Virginia teacher. CrimethInc. texts mentioned in this Hotwire: Brazil 2016–2017: The Political Crisis and Coup d'État, an Anarchist Analysis From Democracy to Freedom Fuck Abuse, Kill Power: Addressing the Root Causes of Sexual Harassment and Assault Fundraising: Anti-fascists arrested for confronting the alt-right in Michigan need legal defense funds. The Southeast Trans and/or Women Action Camp in late April has had their fundraising page shut down TWICE. If you have some bucks to spare you can donate to the action camp at PayPal.me/setwac2018. J20 Legal Defense Fund National Jericho Movement 20th anniversary celebration fundraiser J20 solidarity speaking tour: March 14: Los Angeles, CA – The Y (1811 Johnston Street, Suite C), 7:00 PM March 15: San Diego – Metate Infoshop March 16: Flagstaff, AZ – Taala Hooghan Infoshop (1704 N. 2nd St) March 17: Phoenix, AZ March 18: Tucson, AZ – Global Justice Center (225 E. 26th St) From Democracy to Freedom Speaking Tour by CrimethInc.. March 17: St. Louis, MO – 3:00 PM at Foam Coffeehouse If you'd like to arrange a presentation in your town or at your university, just contact [email protected]. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief tour March 18 @ 7:00 pm at Soft Web Collective 3110 W. Leigh St. Richmond, VA 23220: The Birdhouse 800 N 4th Ave Knoxville, TN 37917: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism March 19 @ 12:00 pm at Soft Web Collective 3110 W. Leigh St. Richmond, VA 23220: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness March 20 @ 7:00 PM at Friends Meeting House 1104 Forest St. Charlottesville, VA 22903: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism March 21 @ 3:00 PM at Friends Meeting House 1104 Forest St. Charlottesville, VA 22903: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write to political prisoner Ruchell Cinque Magee: Ruchell Cinque Magee #A92051 B3–138 California Mens Colony Post Office Box 8103 San Luis Obispo, California 93409–8103 {Birthday: March 17, 2018} Political prisoner Robert Seth Hayes is in need of support. Please call 518–457–7073 and 845–434–2080 to respectfully demand that Robert Seth Hayes gets new insulin sensors and the medical treatment he deserves.

This episode we bring you two interviews. The first is an on-the-ground report from the days of anti-fascist action against Richard Spencer's visit to Detroit and Lansing, with a plea for bail funds to help arrested anti-fascists. Next, we interview a West Virginian anarchist about what makes the teachers' strike there so unique and important. We plug a call from the West Virginia IWW for how to support and spread the strike. Throughout the episode we make the case for an international, revolutionary movement that can do away with all forms of hierarchy and kyriarchy! {February 28, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:40} Interview: Michigan holds it down against fascism {12:50} Interview: West Virginia teachers strike—how to support and spread it {20:20} Next Week's News {29:50} Go here if you'd like to join the L'eau Est La Vie anti-pipeline camp in Louisiana. Support and spread the West Virginia teachers' strike! Check out this article from the West Virginia Industrial Workers of the World on how to support and spread the strike. Tidewater IWW are hosting an education workers' assembly in Norfolk, VA on March 9 to explore the possibility of spreading the West Virginia teachers' strike to Virginia. They're encouraging other anticapitalists in Virginia to host similar assemblies. If you're within driving distance, go to the strike and bring agitational materials like this, this, this, this, this, this, this, [this]https://crimethinc.com/posters/capitalism-is-a-pyramid-scheme), this, this, this, and these. IGDcast Audio Report: Teachers' Strike Enters Second Week Donate to the West Virginia IWW solidarity fund for the teachers' strike here. Donate to the official teacher's strike fund here. Other anarchist shows mentioned in this Hotwire: IGDcast: Appalachia Resists the Mountain Valley Pipeline The Final Straw: Anarchist Perspectives on DACA Hotwire #19 has an overview of the Koreatown popular assembly, which has organized a grassroots alert system for responding to ICE raids Trouble #9: Learning to Resist Fundraising: Anti-fascists arrested for confronting the alt-right in Michigan are STILL IN JAIL as we go to press. Please donate to help get them out of jail and to support their upcoming legal battles. Donate to the anti-Mountain Valley Pipeline treesitters in West Virginia. The Southeast Trans and/or Women Action Camp in late April has had their fundraising page shut down TWICE. If you have some bucks to spare you can donate to the action camp at PayPal.me/setwac2018. Donate to the West Virginia IWW solidarity fund for the teachers' strike here. Donate to the official teacher's strike fund here. J20 solidarity speaking tour: March 8: Chico, CA – Pageant Theater (351 East 6th Street), 7:00 PM March 9: Sacramento, CA – Organize Sacramento (1714 Broadway), 5:00 PM March 10: San Francisco, CA – Station 40 (3030 16th Street, Suite B), 7:00 PM March 11: Oakland, CA – Hasta Muerte Coffee (2701 Fruitvale Ave @ East 27th Street), 5:00 PM March 13: Santa Cruz, CA – Freight Building (119 Center Street), 6:30 PM March 14: Los Angeles, CA – The Y (1811 Johnston Street, Suite C), 7:00 PM From Democracy to Freedom Speaking Tour by CrimethInc.. March 7: Pittsburgh, PA – 7:00 PM at the Mr. Roboto Project, 5106 Penn Avenue March 9: Cleveland, OH – 7:00 PM at Guide to Kulchur, 5222 Lorain Avenue March 10: Bowling Green, OH – 6:00 PM at The Common Good, 113 Crim Street March 11: Chicago, IL – 7:00 PM at 2424 S. Western Avenue. Organized by Breakaway Chicago March 12: Bloomington, IN – 7:00 PM at the Monroe County Public Library March 13: Carbondale, IL – 7:00 PM at The Flyover, 214 North Washington. If you'd like to arrange a presentation in your town or at your university, just contact [email protected]. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief tour March 7 @ 2:00 pm at The Birdhouse 800 N 4th Ave Knoxville, TN 37917: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness March 9 @ 7:30 pm at Firestorm Books & Cafe 610 Haywood Rd Asheville, NC 28806: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism March 10 @ 12:00 pm at Firestorm Books & Cafe 610 Haywood Rd Asheville, NC 28806: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness March 13 @ 6:00 pm at Turchin Center for the Visual Arts 423 West King St Boone, NC 28608: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism March 14 @ 6:00 pm at SAMS Community Center 707 W Main St Unit A Wise, VA 24293: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism J20 support resources: West Coast J20 solidarity speaking tour J20 Legal Defense Fund Twitter Fed book An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful "do"s and "don't"s Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained

While students walk out of classes all over the country (and occasionally fight cops) we make the pitch for an anarchist youth liberation movement. In wild, wonderful, and apparently rebellious West Virginia, striking school employees have shut down every public school in the state, while treesitters are putting up resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline. We also share calls to support political prisoner Joy Powell, as well as a fundraising drive for a radical café in Istanbul. Listen until the end for announcements of three different speaking tours in March: one about anarchist responses to natural disasters, one about the anarchist critique of democracy, and one all about the J20 case and why the remaining 59 defendants deserve your utmost support. {February 28, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:30} Youth liberation now! {9:20} Repression Roundup {21:35} Next Week's News {23:00} Download 29:30 long version Check out the Hamilton, Ontario anarchist bookfair this weekend! Join antifascists in Lansing, Michigan at noon on March 5 as they gather to oppose white nationalist Richard Spencer's visit to Michigan State University. J20 support resources: West Coast J20 solidarity speaking tour J20 Legal Defense Fund Twitter Fed book An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful "do"s and "don't"s Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained Other anarchist shows mentioned in this Hotwire: End of the Line #12: Irreparable This is Parkdale, documentary about tenant organizing and rent strike in Toronto In Hotwire #19 we explain why radical social movements are better equipped to solve the problem of mass shootings than the state is Trouble #9: Learning to Resist Trouble #10: School's Out IGDcast: Audio Report from the Picket Lines of the West Virginia Teachers' Strike IGDcast: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief on Building Dual Power & Upcoming Tour Also, check out the decades of prison radio done by ex-death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Youth Liberation Texts, possibly to be used by anti-authoritarian youth looking to connect with others at March For Our Lives events on March 24: No! Against Adult Supremacy The Child and its Enemies Youth Liberation Anarchism and Youth Liberation The Teenage Liberation Handbook Fundraising: Donate to the anti-Mountain Valley Pipeline treesitters in West Virginia. Support Kris Thompson, the widow of Kiwi Herring, a black trans woman who was murdered by St. Louis police, who is now facing charges Donate to the new International Anarchist Defence Fund, even though they spell "defense" all weird Please support Komşu Kafe, a radical spot in Istanbul that exists for everyone, "overwhelmed and disillusioned by exploitation, hierarchy, inequality and hate." J20 solidarity speaking tour: March 3: Seattle, WA – Pipsqueak Gallery (173 16th Ave), 7:00 PM March 4: Olympia, WA – New Moon (113 4th Ave W), 7:00 PM March 5: Portland, OR – Cider Riot (807 NE Couch), 6:30 PM March 6: Eugene, OR – Wesley Center (2520 Harris St), 6:30 PM From Democracy to Freedom Speaking Tour by CrimethInc.. March 7: Pittsburgh, PA – 7 pm at the Mr. Roboto Project, 5106 Penn Avenue If you'd like to arrange a presentation in your town or at your university, just contact [email protected]. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief tour March 3 @ 5:00 pm CST First Congregational Church (Fight For 15 office) 1000 S. Cooper St. Memphis, TN 38104: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism March 4 @ 12:00 pm CST First Congregational Church (Fight For 15 office) 1000 S. Cooper St. Memphis, TN 38104: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness March 6 @ 6:00 pm EST The Birdhouse 800 N 4th Ave Knoxville, TN 37917: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism March 7 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST The Birdhouse 800 N 4th Ave Knoxville, TN 37917: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness Write to political prisoner imprisoned Reverend Joy Powell: Reverend Joy Powell #07G0632 Bedford Hills CF Post Office Box 1000 Bedford Hills, New York 10507–2499 Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross. Also call in to Superintendent Joseph at 914–241–3100 and Don Venetozzi at 518–457–2337 and say, "Hello, I am calling to ask that DSS Michael Daye, Lt. McBride and Sgt. McDaniels NOT be allowed to harass inmates and violate the legal and medical safeguards of Joy Powell #07G0632 and that Joy Powell be released IMMEDIATELY from SHU, as she is a senior citizen with health issues, and has been placed in there in retaliation for speaking to the media about the abhorrent conditions at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility! I also request that she be allowed to have snacks on her at all times, that she be allowed to monitor her blood sugar three times daily and that she be free of harassment when going to a

This episode is packed to the gills with news! There is antifa activity in Tennessee and folks in the Northwest continue to hold it down against the fascist creep. Solidarity for Afrin spreads and an inspiring model to fight ICE raids emerges out of Koreatown, Los Angeles. We offer some analysis about the school shooting in Parkland, FL and interview both an anarchist attending the student led rallies there and an anarchist author who's written about gun control. There is a short update on the repression Florida prisoners are enduring due to Operation Push. Walter Bond is in need of support and we have some good news about accused confederate statue topplers in Durham, NC. To wrap things up, there are loads of upcoming events, so stay tuned until the end! {February 21, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:25} Parkland school shooting & interviews {11:30} Repression Roundup {25:40} Prisoner Birthdays & Next Week's News {29:55} Antifascists in Washington, D.C. are calling for protests this Saturday, February 24 against a fancy alt-right dinner. This weekend, February 23 to the 26, the Earth First! Winter Rendezvous will take place near Kiln, Mississippi. There will be workshops, trainings, and movement building. J20 support resources: J20 Legal Defense Fund Twitter Fed book An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful "do"s and "don't"s Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained Other anarchist shows mentioned in this Hotwire: The Ex-Worker #62: Support, Healing, and Redefining Resistance—2017 in Review, Part II The Hotwire #7 The Hotwire #12 An audio account on It's Going Down about the ongoing #OperationPush prison strike in Florida CrimethInc. texts mentioned in this Hotwire: What We Need from You How You Can Help with CrimethInc. Projects Escaping Washington for Freedom (Also, check out this informative Twitter thread about why every single American president was a scumbag.) Immigrants Welcome stickers Borders: The Global Caste System posters No Wall They Can Build CrimethInc. is taking their new book From Democracy to Freedom on tour in the Midwest in March! Here at the dates: March 7: Pittsburgh, PA March 8: Morgantown, WV March 9: Cleveland, OH March 10: Bowling Green, OH March 11: Chicago, IL March 12: Bloomington, IN March 13: Carbondale, IL March TBD: St. Louis, MO If you'd like to arrange a presentation in your town or at your university, just contact [email protected]. Legal fundraiser for Scott Warren, a humanitarian aid worker on the border who is now facing charges of human trafficking in retaliation for his solidarity work. Daniel McGowan's article on the restrictive Communications Management Units, also called "little Guantanamos." Call in to support Joy Powell, a prisoner being retaliated against for exposing conditions at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Call the superintendent at 914–241–3100. You can find a sample call-in script here. Write to recently transferred Animal Liberation Front political prisoner Walter Bond: Walter Bond 37096–013 FCI Terre Haute CMU PO Box 33 Terre Haute IN 47808 Political prisoner birthdays: Kamau Sadiki (Freddie Hilton) #0001150688 Augusta State Medical Prison, Building 13A–2 E7 3001 Gordon Highway Grovetown, Georgia 30813 Address envelope to Freddie Hilton, address card to Kamau {February 19} Oso Blanco (Byron Chubbuck) 07909–051 USP Victorville Post Office Box 3900 Adelanto, California 92301 Address envelope to Byron Chubbuck, address card to Oso Blanco {February 26} For a good introduction to writing prisoners, check out this guide from New York City Anarchist Black Cross. CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS Last week we reported that Michael Foster, the valve turner who temporarily halted the flow of tar sands oil in TransCanada's Keystone pipeline in October 2016, was sentenced to three years, but in fact he is only serving one. Thanks to the listener who caught that, and we'll still post Michael's address once we have it so you can write him letters.

The second episode of our second season! There is antifa activity in Olympia, Athens, and Seattle. Vaneesa Hopson died while in the custody of Olympia police and we report on the death and the subsequent protests.. There are strikes by delivery drivers across Hong Kong and Europe, by prisoners detained at an immigrant detention center in Washington, and walkouts across the country as part of the Fight for 15 campaign. We interview an anarchist active in the resistance to the Westlake Landfill. In honor of Valentine's Day there's a rant against conventional love. Stay tuned until the Repression Roundup to hear about the Black Pride 4. {February 14, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {2:23} Interview {10:00} Rant on Love {17:40} Anarchist media roundup {23:12} Repression Roundup {24:15} Next Week's News {29:12} J20 support resources: J20 Legal Defense Fund Twitter Fed book An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful dos and don'ts Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained Other anarchist shows mentioned in this Hotwire: [IGDCast from May 11, 2017, Featuring an Interview with Maru Mora]https://itsgoingdown.org/igdcast-maru-villalpando-on-hunger-strikes-northwest-detention-facility/) Ex-Worker 32: White Supremacy and Capitalism, From 1492 to Ferguson Ex-Worker 40: Struggles Against White Supremacy and Police Since Ferguson. The Ex-Worker 36: The Rojava Revolution The Ex-Worker 39: The Rojava Revolution, Part II The Final Straw: Şoreş Ronahi on Turkish assaults on Afrin Canton, Rojava, Syria CrimethInc. texts mentioned in this Hotwire: What We Need from You How You Can Help with CrimethInc. Projects "Join the Resistance, Fall in Love" Immigrants Welcome stickers Borders: The Global Caste System posters No Wall They Can Build Go here are more details about the hunger strike at the Northwest Immigrant Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. View the video on Rojava's new ecological initiative here View the Submedia video on the Kinder Morgan pipeline lockdown here Full report on housing struggles [taking place across the country](https://itsgoingdown.org/across-the-us-tenants-are-launching-rent-strikes/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Go to the this Facebook page to find out how to support the Black Pride 4. Check out this statement of support for Tariq Khan from the Campus Antifascist Network. To support Tariq, please send respectful but firm e-mails to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Office of Student Conflict Resolution, Assistant Dean of Students, Rony Die: [email protected] and Associate Dean of Students, Justin Brown: [email protected]. The full interview done by It's Going Down, can be found here. Write to imprisoned CopWatcher Ramsey Orta: Ramsey Orta, 16A4200 112 Scotch Settlement Rd Gouverneur, NY 13642 Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross.

The first episode of our new season! This week we run down the list of antifascist confrontations from San Diego to Olympia, Washington. We also share a call for opposing Richard Spencer in Lansing, Michigan on March 5. Fast food workers in Portland, sex workers in New Orleans, and Uber drivers in Indonesia are all getting organized. Camille, Camille, and Camille from the ZAD explain their complicated victory over the planned airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, and Flint Arthur from Stand With Afrin phones in with an update on the Turkish assault on Rojava. Stay tuned until the Repression Roundup to hear about a new wave of repression against humanitarian aid workers on the US-Mexico border. {February 7, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {2:05} Turkish military's assault on Rojava {8:00} Chilean resistance to the Pope's visit {10:00} J20—where things stand a year later {13:25} The ZAD beat the airport! {20:05} Repression Roundup {27:50} Next Week's News {32:00} J20 support resources: J20 Legal Defense Fund Twitter Fed book An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful "do"s and "don't"s Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained Other anarchist shows mentioned in this Hotwire: A radio-play adaptation of The Dispossessed The new Global Uprisings documentary ANTIFA The Ex-Worker 63: Anarchists in the Trump Era: Scorecard, Year One. Achievements, Failures, and the Struggles Ahead The Ex-Worker 36: The Rojava Revolution - The Ex-Worker 39: The Rojava Revolution, Part II The Ex-Worker 37: The Hambacher Forest Occupation The Final Straw: Şoreş Ronahi on Turkish assaults on Afrin Canton, Rojava, Syria CrimethInc. texts mentioned in this Hotwire: What We Need from You How You Can Help with CrimethInc. Projects We Will Remember Freedom: Why It Matters that Ursula K. Le Guin was an Anarchist - Government Shutdown Doesn't Go Far Enough: Make the Shutdown Comprehensive and Permanent Immigrants Welcome stickers Borders: The Global Caste System posters No Wall They Can Build Writings by Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed Le Guin writings on the Anarchist Library Grin and Bare It All, an anarchist, feminist essay on sex work written by a worker from the industry. Congratulations to acquitted J20 defendant Alexei Wood for beating bogus J20 related charges for a second year in a row… and for leaving the world one more entertaining anti-MAGA hat video. Full reports on the successful confrontations against Patriot Prayer in Olympia, Washington. A .gif of the Chilean police horse who threw a cop off her back and next to the popemobile. Go to the this Facebook page to find out how to support Tamara Sol Vergara and her family after her injuries sustained during an escape attempt. Check out this statement of support for Tariq Khan from the Campus Antifascist Network. To support Tariq, please send respectful but firm e-mails to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Office of Student Conflict Resolution, Assistant Dean of Students, Rony Die: [email protected] and Associate Dean of Students, Justin Brown: [email protected]. Write to imprisoned CopWatcher Ramsey Orta: Ramsey Orta, 16A4200 112 Scotch Settlement Rd Gouverneur, NY 13642 Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross.

In Episode 63 of the Ex-Worker, we conclude our series of reflections on 2017 with an audio version of the recently published essay "Anarchists in the Trump Era: Scorecard, Year One." It analyzes five key turning points in 2017, assessing how anarchists took part and what lessons we can learn for the battles ahead. While recognizing all we've accomplished under incredible stress, it argues for the importance of broadening our efforts to challenge authority and dismantle hierarchy in every area of our lives and our societies in 2018. Afterwards, Clara and Alanis debate themes from the essay and our year in review episodes, around relating to non-anarchists on the left, organizational formats, resiliency and care, and more. {Feb 7, 2017} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:01} Anarchists in the Trump Era: Scorecard, Year One {2:02} Dawn of a New Apocalypse {3:43} J20: A Call to Revolt {6:20} The Airport Blockades: A Message to the Center {13:02} Shutting Down Milo in Berkeley: A Risky Escalation {16:16} Charlottesville: Moment of Truth {19:58} The First J20 Trial: Pushing Back the Reaction {26:25} What We Lost Along the Way {31:25} The Challenges Ahead {33:22} The Centrists {33:53} The Authoritarian Left {38:52} In Conclusion: Expanding the Anarchist Palette {43:09} Reflections {45:58} Prisoner Birthdays and Conclusion {58:45} This episode is based on the recently published CrimethInc. essay "Anarchists in the Trump Era: Scorecard, Year One." The analysis we share in this episode is by no means comprehensive; for a detailed timeline of anarchist activity throughout 2017, check out the this report by It's Going Down. Prisoner birthdays this month: Veronza Bowers, Jr. 35316–136 FMC Butner Post Office Box 1600 Butner, North Carolina 27509 {February 4th} Kamau Sadiki (Freddie Hilton) #0001150688 Augusta State Medical Prison, Building 13A–2 E7 3001 Gordon Highway Grovetown, Georgia 30813 Address envelope to Freddie Hilton, address card to Kamau {February 19th} Oso Blanco (Byron Chubbuck) #07909–051 USP Victorville Post Office Box 3900 Adelanto, California 92301 Address envelope to Byron Chubbuck, address card to Oso Blanco {February 26th}

As we reconnect to plan a new year of resistance this January 20th, what lessons can we take from the inspiring but traumatic year that was 2017? In Episode 61 of the Ex-Worker, we interview three anarchists who reflect on their role on the front lines of struggles against the state and fascism over the past year. Hex, who survived a shooting attack by a fascist at a Seattle anti-fascist demonstration last January 20th, offers perspective on questions of justice, violence, patriarchy, and compassion, the critical importance of healing, and redefining resistance. An anarchist of color from Charlottesville discusses how the events there have impacted anti-fascist resistance and updates us on court cases, grand jury proceedings, and opportunities to show solidarity. And Miel, who was recently acquitted on all charges in the first trial of J20 defendants from the DC counter-inaugural protests, traces the significance of the J20 case, state strategies of repression, and lessons we can take with us as we move forward into a new year of struggle. The episode wraps up with updates from several other anarchist media projects about their plans for the new year, prisoner birthdays, and more. {January 20, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:01} Getting Started: Why the Right Actually Can't Shoot Us {2:35} Interview with Hex, Survivor of Fascist Shooting in Seattle {9:35} Interview with Anarchist of Color from Charlottesville {52:30} Interview with Miel, Acquitted J20 Defendant {1:10:16} 2018 Previews from Other Anarchist Media Projects {1:35:04} Prisoner Updates and Birthdays](https://nycabc.wordpress.com/pppow-birthday-calendar/) {1:43:26} Conclusion {1:46:45} On January 20th, mark the one year anniversary of counter-inaugural and anti-Trump protests by connecting with others and laying plans for the next year of resistance! Check out this listing of events around the country. The Hotwire, our weekly anarchist newscast, will return in February, so stay tuned! For some background on our conversation with Hex, check out this radio interview in which he discusses his experience of the shooting, or skim the edited transcript of it here; also see CrimethInc's piece "What Counts as Violence: Why the Right Can Shoot Us Now", and the article An Anarchist is Shot in Seattle from Fifth Estate magazine. Hex makes reference to No New Youth Jail campaign and "Block the Bunker", two campaigns against the prison industrial complex led by youth of color in the Seattle, which contributed to his radicalization around issues of incarceration and restorative justice. Also be sure to check out the Greater Seattle IWW General Defense Committee, a local affiliate of the Industrial Workers of the World and their General Defense Committee. We're excited to be part of the Channel Zero Network, a collective platform for anarchist audio and radio projects. Some of our sibling projects from CZN we highlighted in our 2018 anarchist media discussion include Resonance Anarchist Audio Distro, The Final Straw Radio, It's Going Down, SubMedia, and SoleCast. Check 'em all out! In our discussion about the aftermath of the August 12th demonstrations with an anarchist of color from Charlottesville, we heard about several ways to show support for anarchists and anti-fascists there. Stay updated through Solidarity Cville, also on Twitter and Medium. You can also donate to the Charlottesville Resilience Fund. Since defeating the Unite the Right rally in August, radicals in Charlottesville have been on a roll: shutting down UVA Bicentennial celebration under the slogan ""200 years of white supremacy," with three people arrested; shutting down an October 10th Planning Commission meeting declaring "No More Business as Usual"; and a whole week of resistance events. On February 2nd, there will be a court date for some of the comrades against whom fascist Jason Kessler is pressing charges for shutting down his attempt to have a press conference the day after Heather Heyer's murder; turn out to show support if you can, or stay posted for updates. Miel, recently acquitted J20 defendant, referred to Defend J20 Resistance and their ongoing fundraising campaign to support the remaining 180+ defendants facing charges for protesting Trump's inauguration. Many J20 events this year will be screening the new film by our friends at Global Uprisings, titled "Antifa." Check it out! Warm greetings of solidarity to our friends at Black Mosquito, an anarchist distribution project in Germany, who were recently targeted in a probable fascist robbery and attack. Take a moment to write to anarchist prisoner Eric King, who's grieving the loss of his brother. Eric King # 27090045 FCI FLORENCE FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION PO BOX 6000 FLORENCE, CO 81226 The New York State prison system has issued an absurd and harmful new set of restrictions on what prisoners can receive in packages from friends and family. Read info about it from NYC ABC (page 15), sign a

In this episode, we take an in-depth look at the blockade in Olympia, WA that stopped a train carrying fracking supplies for twelve days. {January 19, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:05} How Did This Happen? {10:07} It Was Fun! {24:42} Can It Be Repeated? {32:53} Tensions and Disagreements {39:27} Media and the "General Public" {57:12} Conclusion {1:08:20} Additional Resources Demands from the Libertarian Socialist Caucus Satirical demands And for updates on ongoing struggle in the region, go to: pugetsoundanarchists.org Audio The Hotwire #15 Solecast On the Olympia Blockade IGD Cast on the Olympia Blockade Audio Report Behind the Olympia Fracking Blockade Video Native News Interview 2017 raid video Communiques and Analysis How do we turn olympia stand into the Olympia Commune Letter Of Solidarity from the Year 3017 Decolonize Turtle Island Shabbos Behind The Barricades Otherworlds #4 Commune Against Civilization A Requiem For the Olympia Blockade Autonomous Not Atomized Solidarity Actions Block Friday call for solidarity (In Spanish) (In German) Another call for solidarity actions Solidarity action in Nebraska Solidarity action on the Columbia River Solidarity action in Medford, OR Solidarity from Suburbia Solidarity From the Bay Area

In the first of two episodes looking back over 2017, we present an audio version of the recently published CrimethInc. feature "How Anti-Fascists Won the Battles of Berkeley: 2017 in the Bay and Beyond: A Play-by-play Analysis." The article charts the rise and fall of the alt-right through the lens of the conflicts that erupted in the San Francisco Bay Area, and how anarchists and anti-fascists successfully built coalitions to stop them. We also review the last year's worth of articles, books, posters, and podcasts from the CrimethInc. Ex-Worker's Collective. {January 8, 2018} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:01} How Anti-Fascists Won the Battles of Berkeley: 2017 in the Bay and Beyond {2:25} 2016: A New Era Begins {4:45} Starting the Year off with a Bang {12:27} The Real Dangerous Faggots {15:37} A Repulsive Rainbow of Reaction {21:48} The Alt-Right Strikes Back {26:18} The Turning Point {35:41} The Final Battle of Berkeley {47:30} Make Total Decomposition {1:00:16} Solidarity is Our Most Powerful Weapon {1:06:47} CrimethInc's 2017 Year in Review {1:12:01} The Rebel Girl on the Hotwire's Year in Review {1:21:38} Conclusion {1:24:28} This episode narrates the recent CrimethInc. feature "How Anti-Fascists Won the Battles of Berkeley: 2017 in the Bay and Beyond: A Play-by-play Analysis.". If you're interested in reading broader reflections on antifascism within the anarchist movement today, check out our episode Not Your Grandparents' Antifascism. The Hotwire, our weekly anarchist newscast, will return in February, so stay tuned! We're excited to be part of the Channel Zero Network, a collective platform for anarchist audio and radio projects.

Our final episode for the season! But we'll be back in February. This week, antifascist students were active with a #StopSpencer week of action at the University of Michigan and shutting down Lucian Wintrich at the University of Connecticut. Racist remarks keep coming up during police testimony at the [#J20 trials](https://itsgoingdown.org/drop-j20-podcast-update–3-police-take-stand/). We have updates on the massive, sweeping raids against anti-capitalists in Germany over the successful protests against the G20 in Germany in July. New York City Anarchist Black Cross call for international New Year's Eve noise demonstrations outside prisons, jails, and detention centers. Finally, we get mushy and grateful for the past year of resistance. Let us know how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at [email protected]. {December 6th, 2017} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {2:05} Anti-fascism worldwide {5:27} Repression Roundup {11:39} Looking back, looking forward {20:40} Anarchist media roundup {27:20} Next Week's News {29:35} The New Orleans Anarchist Bookfair Saturday, December 9 from 11 AM to 5 PM at Clouet Gardens, near the corner of Clouet Street and Royal, New Orleans J20 support resources: Seven Things You Can Do to Support the J20 Defendants As the Trials Get Underway J20 Legal Defense Fund Sub.media's Defend J20 Resistance info-video Unicorn Riot's regular trial updates A useful, concise summary of the case so far Twitter Fed book Agency: The J20 Case, What You Need to Know Call-in campaign to #DropJ20: Call Mayor Bowser's Office at 202–727–6263. Find a sample script to use here. Noon, December 16 at Union Square in San Francisco: Anti-fascist counter-protest against the racist March Against Sanctuary Cities. International Call For New Year's Eve Noise Demonstrations at prisons, jails, and detention centers from New York City Anarchist Black Cross. Community Self-Defense Conference Lansing, Michigan January 19–21 Hosted by Solidarity and Defense January 20, 2018: Build the Base, Take the Initiative. A Call to Expand Our Capacity The Cascadia Forest Defenders are fighting against the Goose Timber Sale of 2,500 acres of the Willamette National Forest in Oregon. Go here to donate to their struggle or find out how to get involved. Detailed information on the recent raids in Germany can be found in English here and in German here. Great anarchist media and news sources to enjoy until The Hotwire returns in February: It's Going Down The Final Straw The Earth First! Newswire Insurrection News Worldwide Sub.media Unicorn Riot CrimethInc. In this episode, we do a brief overview of all the exciting action anarchists have taken over the past year. For a video that compiles much of the last year of rebel activity, check out A Chorus of Versus: 14 Months of Rebellion in the "United States" from NC Piece Corps. Other anarchist shows related to this Hotwire: [#J20 Podcast Update #3](https://itsgoingdown.org/drop-j20-podcast-update–3-police-take-stand/) Trouble #3: Refugees Welcome PSA Charlottesville documentary, Part 1 & Part 2. Check out the recent episode of the anarchist podcast The Final Straw with an interview about the forest occupation and re-contextualizing forest defense in a time of climate change. CrimethInc. texts mentioned in this Hotwire: January 20, 2018: Build the Base, Take the Initiative. A Call to Expand Our Capacity Seven Things You Can Do to Support the J20 Defendants As the Trials Get Underway This Is Not a Dialogue: Not Just Free Speech, but Freedom Itself, with an anarchist Free Speech FAQ Preparing for Round Two Coming to Blows with the Trump Regime Immigrants Welcome stickers Borders: The Global Caste System posters The text Fight Capitalism! Win Millions of Dollars in Prizes! has details on the civil suits faced by police in Washington, D.C. after previous mass arrests of protesters. The Rise of Neo-Fascism in Germany Alternative für Deutschland Enters the Parliament The last year of resistance, in chronological CrimethInc. reports: The Ex-Worker #55: The J20 Protests and Beyond: Anarchists Bring in the Trump Era Don't See What Happens, Be What Happens Continuous Updates from the Airport Blockades It's Not Your Speech, Milo. Understanding the UC Berkeley Protests Interview: The Standing Rock Evictions (Audio and Transcript) The Ex-Worker #57: Reports from the G20 in Hamburg DON'T TRY TO BREAK US–WE'LL EXPLODE. The 2017 G20 and the Battle of Hamburg: A Full Account and Analysis The Ex-Worker #56: Charlottesville - Triumph & Tragedy in the Struggle Against Fascism One Dead in Charlottesville Why the Right Can Kill Us Now Hotwire #2 includes an interview with someone at the anti-confederate commune in Chapel Hill, NC right after Charlottesville. We take an excerpt from the inspiring interview with a comrade at the Olympia Blockade that we included in Hotwire #14. The 2018 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners

The Rebel Girl goes over the last week of anti-colonial, anti-#ThingsTaken actions across Turtle Island. The anti-fracking blockade in Olympia is going strong, opening up space for struggle and churning out innumerable demands. Anarchists in Chile demonstrate what anti-electoral action looks like, and decentralized mutual aid is spreading across Puerto Rico. Stay tuned until the end for updates on the first J20 trial and a new guide to supporting the defendants. We also have announcements for anarchist book fairs, marches, and other calls to action. {November 29th, 2017} -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {2:15} No thanks given for #ThingsTaken {9:45} Olympia Blockade {13:30} Repression Roundup {20:45} Next Week's News {26:15} The New Orleans Anarchist Bookfair Saturday, December 9 from 11 AM to 5 PM at Clouet Gardens, near the corner of Clouet Street and Royal, New Orleans J20 support resources: Seven Things You Can Do to Support the J20 Defendants As the Trials Get Underway J20 Legal Defense Fund Sub.media's Defend J20 Resistance info video Twitter Fed book Agency: The J20 Case, What You Need to Know [Call-in campaign to #DropJ20]: Call Mayor Bowser's Office at 202–727–6263. Find a sample script to use here. January 20, 2018: Build the Base, Take the Initiative. A Call to Expand Our Capacity Antifa: The Anti-fascist Handbook book tour: Bowdoin College on November 29 The University of Southern Maine on November 30 The Harvard Coop in Cambridge, MA on December 1 7 PM 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Phoenix Books in Burlington, VT on December 5 7 PM 191 Bank St, Burlington, VT 05401 Here are our favorite communiqués from the Olympia blockade so far: 20 demands from the Olympia Commune Commune Against Civilization: Dispatches from Olympia Blockade Commune Against Civilization: Dispatch #2 from Olympia Blockade How do We turn Olympia Stand into the Olympia Commune? Donate to the Olympia Stand here. Puerto Rico's DIY Disaster Relief by Molly Crabapple Check out the support poster for the Vaughn Correctional prison rebels, and write them an uplifting letter while you're at it. Use this prisoner letter writing guide. Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement's new Support Through the Walls prison literature distribution campaign. Support Peike from Amsterdam, one of the prisoners from the G20 resistance in Germany. The Cascadia Forest Defenders are fighting against the Goose Timber Sale of 2,500 acres of the Willamette National Forest in Oregon. Go here to donate to their struggle or find out how to get involved. Black Snake Killaz, Unicorn Riot's brand new documentary about the indigenous-led resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016. Anti-Rape and Police Abolition march in New York City November 30 6:30 PM, Washington Square Park, New York City The Transgender Day of Remembrance website Hudson Valley Earth First! is hosting an action camp from December 1–4. RSVP or ask questions by emailing hudsonvalleyearthfirst[at]riseup[dot]net or by going to hudsonvalleyearthfirst.org. Other anarchist podcast episodes mentioned in this Hotwire: Trouble #7: No Permission Needed covers the autonomous, mutual aid relief efforts in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Trouble #8: Hack the World Hotwire #12 has our anarchist argument against standardized time. The Ex-Worker #57: Reports from the G20 in Hamburg This episode of The Final Straw has interviews with Cascadia Forest Defenders about their anti-logging occupation in the Willamette National Forest. CrimethInc. texts mentioned in this Hotwire: Scout Schultz: Remembering Means Fighting; Mourning a Queer Activist and Anarchist Murdered by the Police Why We Don't Make Demands DON'T TRY TO BREAK US–WE'LL EXPLODE. The 2017 G20 and the Battle of Hamburg: A Full Account and Analysis The 2018 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar is now available! Your group can buy 10 or more at the rate of $10 each. Single issues are available from LeftWingBooks.net and AK Press. This year's theme is "Awakening Resistance," and features art and writings by Jesus Barraza, Fight Toxic Prisons, Serena Tang, Andrea Ritchie, Roger Peet, Sophia Dawson, Rasmea Support Committee, EE Vera, Herman Bell, Fernando Marti, Alexandra Valiente, Billie Belo, Arlene Gallone Support Committee, Marius Mason, David Gilbert, UB Topia, April Rosenblum, Design Action Collective, Sundiata Acoli, CrimethInc, Annie Banks, Mutope Duguma, Xinachtli, Zola and more. You can sponsor copies for prisoners for only $8, postage included! Just be sure to specify their full legal name and prisoner number. Any questions can be sent to [email protected]. Ongoing grassroots disaster relief efforts: Florida: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Texas: Bayou Action Street Health, Greater Houston Grassroots Relief, World on My Shoulders, Austin Common Ground, the Black Women's Defense League, Redneck Revolt Houston, West Street Response Team, Houston Food Not Bombs Califo