Podcast appearances and mentions of Andrea Ritchie

   Our guest on today's show is Ari, and we're talking about conflict in activist spaces and in community group settings.      Ari (they/them) is a community organiser, mediator and support worker who is passionate about exploring the transformative potential of generative conflict and accountability work. Working primarily in community organising settings, Ari believes that how we relate to each other directly impacts our political capacities, and that although large-scale political organising is vital, most change happens at the relational and community level. Their work is informed by abolitionist and transformative justice frameworks, which are ways of being and organising rooted in indigenous knowledge and BiPoc communities in which there have historically been other ways of dealing with conflict than the models white supremacy culture teaches us today. Authors and organisers who have inspired them greatly are Andrea Ritchie, adrienne maree brown, Mia Mingus, Mariame Kaba, Dean Spade and many more. When not organising workshops or supporting comrades in conflict resolution, they enjoy learning about generative somatics, dancing and moving their body and supporting community events. They grew up in Germany and are currently living on unceded Wurrendjeri Woi-Worrung Land.    Links: A really helpful resource is the booklet Working with conflict in our groups: A guide for grassroots activists produced by Seeds for Change UK. You can download the guide as a PDF file here https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/downloads/conflictbooklet.pdf  Ari's workshop in Naarm/Melbourne at Black Spark Cultural Centre is on Sunday June 15 between 3.00-6.00pm. Registration is required as it's limited to a small group. Please complete the registration form if you're interested.  https://tinyurl.com/accountabilityws   Please note that for copyright reasons we cannot include the songs played on the show in the podcast. The songs have been added to the Freedom of Species Spotify playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3TJQujKYjGFoFP6LhBbaTS?si=bfcb55c3f7634f0e     The music we played on the show:   Trans 101 (Scarim) by Bobby Sanchez https://open.spotify.com/track/2qlHAUxjsB0mBpGOKSqNx3?si=4nyByc0tRmud5kNL1-rR4A        Cavaliers by Mansfield TYA  https://open.spotify.com/track/07F8ojojIcr19BWqHJFLyo?si=-x8qtJzcTc6oMpGKMD8rzw&nd=1&dlsi=eb00fc0e895541d3      A Bigger Cage is still a Prison by Cistem Failure https://open.spotify.com/track/29Klq6FWTjZg22v8eei9sZ?si=w1hftqycSxyIrqwfk5ERLw&nd=1&dlsi=3bbccd65c29f4e96    June is Radiothon month at 3CR Community Radio. The station needs your support to keep going and by donating you are investing in the future of 3CR.  Please tune in next Sunday June 15 at 1pm for Freedom of Species' Radiothon Animal Trivia show. We invite listeners to text in their answers to the trivia questions on 0488 809 855. If you would like to donate to Freedom of Species' 2025 Radiothon target of $1500, our GiveNow page is here: https://www.givenow.com.au/cr/freedomofspecies?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2jsVKFa8k    Thank you for listening and please feel free to contact us and share any feedback with us at freedomofspecies@gmail.com  

If you've just found your way to our podcast and you're jumping in fresh, welcome to Episode 1.4 of the Justice for Palestine Magandjin podcast. This podcast aims to archive the ongoing movement for Palestinian liberation as it unfolds on the unceded lands of the Yuggera, Yugarapul, Jagera, Turrbal and Yugumbeh peoples, across so-called brisbane and the surrounding cities of south east queensland. In this episode, Globalise the Intifada, we pick up where we left off in Episode 1.3, by paying attention to the power and practice of Indigenous solidarity as it connects the struggle for Palestinian liberation with other movements against colonial occupation and exploitation in all its forms. As we listen back to speeches from rallies and public meetings, to interviews and discussions, we hear activists and organisers drawing clear connections between the intersecting genocidal systems of colonialism, capitalism, racism, heteropatriarchy, transphobia, and ableism that are operating with such destructive consequences in this moment. We open this episode with reflections from First Nations organisers on this continent, who find clear material and ideological connections between the experiences and struggles on this continent, and those unfolding through unthinkable violence in Gaza. We then trace the connections being drawn through the Justice for Palestine movement as they criss-cross the globe, creating the conditions of possibility for a mass solidarity movement grounded in the deep understanding that colonialism cannot be ended anywhere until it is uprooted everywhere. In order of voices in this episode, you'll hear Muslim solidarity activist and Queensland Muslim Inc. organiser Binil Mohideen, followed by President of the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network, Nasser Mashni, and then Justice for Palestine Magandjin organisers Malaak and Remah. Then you'll hear excerpts from Darumbal and South Sea Islander academic, journalist and writer Dr. Amy McQuire, First Nations poet and writer Cheryl Leavy, Noonuccal Ngugi writer and rapper Ethan Enoch, Mununjahli and South Sea Islander Professor Chelsea Watego, Palestinian writer, academic and organiser Dr. Jamal Nabulsi, Gamillaroi Kooma podcaster and activist Boe Spearim, and Yuin community organiser and current President of the Black People's Union, Kieren Stewert-Assheton. Next up, you'll hear Birri Gubba & Wanjiriburra activist and socialist organiser Sam Woripa Watson, Nasser Mashni again, then diaspora Tamil organiser, poet, musician and Greens candidate for Mayor of Brisbane, Jonathan Sriranganathan, followed by academic, writer and Afghan community organiser, Dr. Mujib Abid, (Jonathan Sriranganathan again), then diaspora Arab poet, writer and youth worker Lamisse Hamouda. Rounding out the episode, you'll hear Dr. Jamal Nabulsi again, followed by Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Black feminist abolitionist academic and organiser Prof. Andrea Ritchie, Palestinian student and organiser Malaak Seleem, Binil from QMI, and finally, a short reminder from Palestinian poet and high school student Dania. As always, this podcast is produced and recorded on unceded Jagera & Turrbal country. Our deepest respects to the rightful owners of these lands, and to all First Nations peoples listening. If you're interested in accessing or supporting the audio archive from which this podcast draws, please get in touch with us via substack. If you want to follow any of these threads further, we recommend the folowing:https://stevesalaita.com/an-honest-living/https://triplea.org.au/listen/programs/lets-talk/lets-talk-black-politics/lets-talk-black-politics-with-dr-jamal-nabulsi/“to stop the earthquake”: Palestine & the Settler Colonial Logic of Fragmentation by Dr. Jamal Nabulsi (via https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anti.12980)“Enduring Indigeneity & Solidarity in response to Australia's carceral colonialism” by Dr. Crystal McKinnon“The Shape of Dust” by Lamisse Hamouda & Hazem Hamouda (you can read an editorial on the book here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/08/hazem-and-lamisse-hamouda-cairo-tora-prison-the-shape-of-dust)“Another Day in the Colony” by Chelsea Watego (you can read an excerpt here: https://e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/chelsea-watego-im-not-afraid-of-the-dark/) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioreversal.substack.com

On the penultimate episode of One Million Experiments, our hosts turn to collaborator and movement mentor Andrea J. RItchie. Andrea, who is the cofounder of Interrupting Criminalization, talks about how the emergent power of movement can sustain us as people and communities in the face of state violence. She also explores what she learned in the creation of her new book Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies. SHOW NOTES Practicing New Worlds by Andrea J. Ritchie - https://www.akpress.org/practicing-new-worlds.html Octavia Butler - https://www.octaviabutler.com/

Join us for a virtual launch event celebrating the release of Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. This event took place on May 16, 2023. What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe. Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the convergence of mass protest and mass formations of mutual aid, and consider what this confluence of power can teach us about a future that will require mass acts of care, rescue and defense, in the face of both state violence and environmental disaster. Get a copy of Let This Radicalize You for 30% off here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/... Speakers include Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Tony Alvarado Rivera , Ejeris Dixon, Aly Wane and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame is currently a researcher at Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. Kelly Hayes is the host of Truthout's podcast “Movement Memos” and a contributing writer at Truthout. Kelly's written work can also be found in Teen Vogue, Bustle, Yes! Magazine, Pacific Standard, NBC Think, her blog Transformative Spaces, The Appeal, the anthology The Solidarity Struggle: How People of Color Succeed and Fail At Showing Up For Each Other In the Fight For Freedom and Truthout's anthology on movements against state violence, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Kelly is also a direct action trainer and a co-founder of the direct action collective Lifted Voices. Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSTMC0QhZbg Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Beatrice speaks with Andrea Ritchie about working to build abolitionist futures in the face of rising fascism and unrelenting state violence, resisting the ongoing annihilatory campaign on Gaza, and her new book Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies. Transcript forthcoming. Find Andrea's new book here: https://www.akpress.org/practicing-new-worlds.html And two links Andrea mentions early in the episode: "Stop Gaza Genocide," a public toolkit: https://bit.ly/StopGazaGenocide Another toolkit to find protests and more: https://gazaispalestine.org/ Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

“Our survival is at stake, and so, let's think about all the best things that can help us better understand how we can ensure the collective survival of as many of us as possible,” says author and organizer Andrea Ritchie. In this episode, Kelly and Andrea discuss organizing, solidarity with Palestine, and why activists cannot defer the work of practicing new worlds. Music: Son Monarcas and David Celeste You can find a transcript and show notes (including links to resources) here: bit.ly/movementmemos If you would like to support the show, you can donate here: bit.ly/TODonate If you would like to receive Truthout's newsletter, please sign up: bit.ly/TOnewsletter

The 1ME crew welcomes the homies from Just Practice Collaborative, a training and mentoring group focused on sustaining a community of practitioners that provide community-based accountability and support structures for all parties involved with incidents and patterns of sexual, domestic, relationship, and intimate community violence. Collaborative members Shira Hassan and Deana Lewis talk through the intentionality of their design, what Transformative Justice should and shouldn't be used for, and the importance of relationship to political experimentation. SHOW NOTES Critical Resistance - https://criticalresistance.org/ INCITE - https://incite-national.org/ Fumbling Towards Repair - https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html Creative Interventions Toolkit - https://www.creative-interventions.org/toolkit/ Rachel Caidor - https://just-practice.org/rachel-caidor Saving Our Own Lives by Shira Hassan - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1938-saving-our-own-lives Combahee River Collective - https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/ Are the Cops in our Heads and Hearts By Paula X. Rojas - https://sfonline.barnard.edu/paula-rojas-are-the-cops-in-our-heads-and-hearts/ Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet by BAY AREA TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE - https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/ NAVIGATING CONFLICT IN MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONS by AORTA - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e9ddc272ee6fa03a5f1ccbe/t/606249bda86e8a2d9f9902bc/1617054141617/CONFLICT+IN+MOVEMENT+ORGANIZATIONS_handout.pdf Healing Justice Lineages by Cara Page & Erica Woodland - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710523/healing-justice-lineages-by-cara-page/ Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you Practicing New Worlds by Andrea Ritchie - https://www.akpress.org/practicing-new-worlds.html

The 1ME crew welcomes the homies from Just Practice Collaborative, a training and mentoring group focused on sustaining a community of practitioners that provide community-based accountability and support structures for all parties involved with incidents and patterns of sexual, domestic, relationship, and intimate community violence. Collaborative members Shira Hassan and Deana Lewis talk through the intentionality of their design, what Transformative Justice should and shouldn't be used for, and the importance of relationship to political experimentation. SHOW NOTES Critical Resistance - https://criticalresistance.org/ INCITE - https://incite-national.org/ Fumbling Towards Repair - https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html Creative Interventions Toolkit - https://www.creative-interventions.org/toolkit/ Rachel Caidor - https://just-practice.org/rachel-caidor Saving Our Own Lives by Shira Hassan - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1938-saving-our-own-lives Combahee River Collective - https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/ Are the Cops in our Heads and Hearts By Paula X. Rojas - https://sfonline.barnard.edu/paula-rojas-are-the-cops-in-our-heads-and-hearts/ Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet by BAY AREA TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE - https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/ NAVIGATING CONFLICT IN MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONS by AORTA - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e9ddc272ee6fa03a5f1ccbe/t/606249bda86e8a2d9f9902bc/1617054141617/CONFLICT+IN+MOVEMENT+ORGANIZATIONS_handout.pdf Healing Justice Lineages by Cara Page & Erica Woodland - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710523/healing-justice-lineages-by-cara-page/ Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you Practicing New Worlds by Andrea Ritchie - https://www.akpress.org/practicing-new-worlds.html

Therapists are part of the Soft Police (signed, an MSW). Read the full essay at Ismatu.Substack.com. Thank you for listening with an open mind!Sources:No Soft Police! Event Recording organized by Interrupting Criminalization"No Soft Police,” a chapter in No More Police! written by Andrea Ritchie and Mariame Kaba (please email me if you would like assistance accessing the text or if you would like to buy the book for someone else!)Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work by Melissa Gira Grant, journalist and former sex workerBrown, Victoria Bissell. "Sex and the city: Jane Addams confronts prostitution." (2010).Mendes, P. (2020). Tracing the origins of critical social work practice. In Critical social work (pp. 17-29). Routledge.History of Social Work in the United States Links to sources available in transcript. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ismatu.substack.com/subscribe

Bea speaks with Andrea Ritchie about the movement to defund and abolish policing, how police budgets sap resources from state and local governments, and how to understand abolition as a core principle that advances the goals of so many other movements. Find Andrea's book, co-authored with Mariame Kaba, "No More Police: A Case for Abolition" here: https://thenewpress.com/books/no-more-police Find more information on Interrupting Criminalization and the "Beyond Do No Harm" project here: https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/beyond-do-no-harm Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

The persistence of police violence in this country necessitates the need for abolition and the fight for real community safety. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss a report written by Andrea Ritchie for Interrupting Criminalization called “The Struggle Continues”, which analyzes the state of the organizing work of the #DefundPolice movement in this country, and how we need to fight for and invest in programs, services, and institutions that actually promote our collective liberation, safety and well-being. Follow us on social media and visit our website! Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Website, Leave us a voice message, Merch store

A primer on police abolition from veteran organizers. What could it look like to live in a world where, instead of relying on policing and prison to put halt to harm, violence is stopped before it even has a chance to begin? In No More Police, organizer and attorney Andrea J. Ritchie and New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba detail why policing doesn't stop violence and instead perpetuates widespread harm. Outlining the many failures of contemporary police reforms, they explore demands to divest from policing and invest in community resources to create greater safety through a Black feminist lens. No More Police centering survivors of state, interpersonal, and community-based violence, and highlights uprisings, campaigns, and community-based projects. Part handbook, part road map, the book calls on readers to turn away from systems that perpetrate violence in the name of ending it, and instead turn toward a world where violence is the exception — a world where safe, well-resourced and thriving communities are the rule. Ritchie joins us at Town Hall to make a case for a world where the tools required to prevent, interrupt, and transform violence in all its forms are abundant. Andrea J. Ritchie is a nationally recognized expert on policing and criminalization and supports organizers across the country working to build safer communities. She is the co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization, the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, and the co-author (with Mariame Kaba) of No More Police (The New Press). She lives in Detroit. Professor Angélica Cházaro teaches Critical Race Theory, Poverty Law, Professional Responsibility, and courses on Immigration Law. Professor Cházaro earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she received the Jane Marks Murphy Prize for Excellence in Clinical Advocacy and was named a Lowenstein Fellow. She was a Kent Scholar, a Stone Scholar, and an editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. Before attending Columbia, Professor Cházaro earned a B.A. in Women's Studies from Harvard University. No More Police Third Place Books

Today's History Story — They Exploited A Black Child For Copaganda Social media posts showing police officers posing with Black protestors or hugging young Black kids who appear openly afraid are promoted, often by police departments themselves, to show their officers in a positive light. This is an effort to counter negative narratives and aims to shape the public's perception by painting cops as kind, friendly and heroic when the truth does not reflect this. Andrea Ritchie is here to tune our eyes and ears to catch this “copaganda” in practice and educate us on the alternatives baked in our ancestry. Ritchie is a police misconduct attorney and organizer whose writing, litigation, and advocacy have focused on policing and criminalization of women, especially LGBTQ women of color, who have been victims of police violence. She is the author of Invisible No More, a history of state violence against women of color, and co-author of No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Mariame Kaba. _________________________ Black History Year (BHY) is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company. PushBlack exists to amplify the stories of Black history you didn't learn in school and explore pathways to liberation with people who are leading the way. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com — most people donate $10 a month, but every dollar makes a difference. If this episode moved you, share it with your people! Thanks for supporting the work. The BHY production team includes Tareq Alani, Brooke Brown, Tasha Taylor, and Lilly Workneh. Our producers are Cydney Smith, Len Webb for PushBlack, and Ronald Younger, who also edits the show. Black History Year's executive producers are Mikel Elcessor for Limina House and Julian Walker for PushBlack. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a recent series of convictions against police officers who killed unarmed Black Americans, including the officer who killed Atatiana Jefferson, questions still linger about what police accountability actually looks like. While convictions can bring a sense of resolution, they don't transform the cultures of police forces. We're joined by Andrea Ritchie, a co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization and co-author of No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Mariame Kaba, to better understand this sometimes-nebulous idea of police accountability. 

After a recent series of convictions against police officers who killed unarmed Black Americans, including the officer who killed Atatiana Jefferson, questions still linger about what police accountability actually looks like. While convictions can bring a sense of resolution, they don't transform the cultures of police forces. We're joined by Andrea Ritchie, a co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization and co-author of No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Mariame Kaba, to better understand this sometimes-nebulous idea of police accountability. 

A conversation with authors Andrea Ritchie, Robyn Maynard, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. As movements to defund and divest from policing and invest in community safety expand in the wake of the 2020 Uprisings, abolitionist organizers are increasingly grappling with questions around the role of the state in abolitionist futures. Where do we want funds diverted from police budgets to go: into other institutions currently controlled by the carceral state, to subsidize the creation of new state entities, or into community-based organizations? What actions and behaviors do we think should be regulated by the state? How should they be regulated? How do we think resources should be distributed? These are not just theoretical questions - they shape the sites of struggle we choose, our organizing objectives and strategies, and the contexts in which they unfold. Organizers Robyn Maynard, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson explore these questions and more through Black feminist and Indigenous frameworks in their recently released books No More Police: A Case for Abolition and Rehearsals for Living. Get a copy of No More Police: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781620977323 Get a copy of Rehearsals for Living: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Robyn Maynard is an award-winning Black feminist scholar-activist based in Toronto and the author of the national bestseller Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Her writings on policing, feminism, abolition, and Black liberation are taught widely across North America and Europe. Andrea J. Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant police misconduct attorney and organizer whose writing, litigation, and advocacy have focused on the policing and criminalization of women and LGBT people of color for the past two decades. She is the co-founder of, most recently, Interrupting Criminalization and the author of many books, including "Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color" (Beacon Press 2017). Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Leanne is the author of seven books, including her 2021 novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, which was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/tqaz90hfGhk Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

“There's no doubt that we have to abolish the carceral state. And there's no doubt that policing and racial capitalism go hand in hand so that we can't be pursuing abolition in a capitalist context,” says author and organizer Andrea Ritchie. In this episode, Andrea and Kelly talk about why the Democrats will not save us, the relationship between abolition and the state, and why it's so hard for most people to imagine political transformations. You can find a transcript and show notes (including links to resources) here: bit.ly/movementmemos If you would like to support the show, you can donate here: bit.ly/TODonate If you would like to receive Truthout's newsletter, please sign up: bit.ly/TOnewsletter Music: Son Monarcas and Imprismed

"There's so much deference to police around everything to do with public safety. What they say is taken as gospel without question, without requiring proof of concept, without requiring any kind of accountability for when what they're saying actually doesn't line up with the facts or people's experiences," says author and organizer Andrea Ritchie. In this episode of Movement Memos, Andrea and Kelly discuss Ritchie's new book, No More Police, co-authored with Mariame Kaba, and talk about how copaganda "shapes our imagination about what policing is, what it's doing, what it's not doing, and the necessity of it." You can find a transcript and show notes (including links to resources) here: bit.ly/movementmemos If you would like to support the show, you can donate here: bit.ly/TODonate If you would like to receive Truthout's newsletter, please sign up: bit.ly/TOnewsletter Music credit: Son Monarcas and Imprismed

Two years ago in the summer of 2020, the largest racial justice demonstrations in history swept across the globe after Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, murdered George Floyd. In the aftermath, it seemed that Americans were reckoning with whether or not the police are a necessary entity in maintaining public safety, but the issue of police abolition remains contentious for many. In March of this year, President Biden earned a bi-partisan standing ovation for saying: We should all agree, the answer's not to defund the police. It's to fund the police. Fund them. In late August, the President traveled to Pennsylvania, where he gave a speech on crime and offered specifics of his Safer America Plan. The plan includes $13 billion dollars to hire 100,000 officers over the next five years and grants to states and cities to recruit, train, and support police in  “effective, accountable community policing.” Hiring more police and sending more policing dollars to states and localities is certainly reminiscent of the 1994 Crime Bill which Biden championed during his Senate years. According to FactCheck.org®, a Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center at University of Pennsylvania, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported in 2005 that the 1994 crime bill added an additional 88,000 police officers and only contributed to a "modest" drop in crime. The GAO reported that from 1993 to 2000, funds apportioned to hire more police in the crime bill contributed to a "1.3 percent decrease in overall crime" and a "2.5 percent decrease in violent crime rates" from 1993. The report also found that factors other than funds to increase the number of police were much more significant to lower crime rates. Increased employment, better policing methods, an aging of the population, growth in income and inflation are just a few factors the report offers.  With the news of Biden's recent announcement, Deep Dive cohosts Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian Warren take a look into the proposal to abolish American police, working together to build a syllabus for their exploration of the issue as "students of abolition." Guests: Judith Browne Dianis, Executive Director of the Advancement Project National Office Professor Treva B. Lindsey, author of "America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women and the Struggle for Justice" Andrea Ritchie, co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization, author of “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color” and “No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Mariame Kaba" Chuck Wexler, Executive Director of the Police Executive Research Forum offers a defense of police Philip Atiba Goff, co-founder and CEO of the Center for Policing Equity and a Professor of African-American Studies and Psychology at Yale University

Two years ago in the summer of 2020, the largest racial justice demonstrations in history swept across the globe after Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, murdered George Floyd. In the aftermath, it seemed that Americans were reckoning with whether or not the police are a necessary entity in maintaining public safety, but the issue of police abolition remains contentious for many. In March of this year, President Biden earned a bi-partisan standing ovation for saying: We should all agree, the answer's not to defund the police. It's to fund the police. Fund them. In late August, the President traveled to Pennsylvania, where he gave a speech on crime and offered specifics of his Safer America Plan. The plan includes $13 billion dollars to hire 100,000 officers over the next five years and grants to states and cities to recruit, train, and support police in  “effective, accountable community policing.” Hiring more police and sending more policing dollars to states and localities is certainly reminiscent of the 1994 Crime Bill which Biden championed during his Senate years. According to FactCheck.org®, a Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center at University of Pennsylvania, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported in 2005 that the 1994 crime bill added an additional 88,000 police officers and only contributed to a "modest" drop in crime. The GAO reported that from 1993 to 2000, funds apportioned to hire more police in the crime bill contributed to a "1.3 percent decrease in overall crime" and a "2.5 percent decrease in violent crime rates" from 1993. The report also found that factors other than funds to increase the number of police were much more significant to lower crime rates. Increased employment, better policing methods, an aging of the population, growth in income and inflation are just a few factors the report offers.  With the news of Biden's recent announcement, Deep Dive cohosts Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian Warren take a look into the proposal to abolish American police, working together to build a syllabus for their exploration of the issue as "students of abolition." Guests: Judith Browne Dianis, Executive Director of the Advancement Project National Office Professor Treva B. Lindsey, author of "America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women and the Struggle for Justice" Andrea Ritchie, co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization, author of “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color” and “No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Mariame Kaba" Chuck Wexler, Executive Director of the Police Executive Research Forum offers a defense of police Philip Atiba Goff, co-founder and CEO of the Center for Policing Equity and a Professor of African-American Studies and Psychology at Yale University

What does safety look like? What do we need to be safe? What threatens that safety? Reset hears from Andrea Ritchie, co-author of the new book No More Police: A Case for Abolition and explores new ways to think about public safety.

The headlines say crime is up. And our politicians say more police are the answer. What's the truth? And what happened to all those abolitionist promises made in the summer of 2020? Host Brittany Packnett Cunningham sits down to answer those questions with two brilliant guests: Pulitzer-winning journalist Wesley Lowery, who explains what the media's getting wrong about crime, and activist, writer and attorney Andrea Ritchie, who walks us through once and for all what abolition really means—and how we can take steps, big and little, to get there. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The headlines say crime is up. And our politicians say more police are the answer. What's the truth? And what happened to all those abolitionist promises made in the summer of 2020? Host Brittany Packnett Cunningham sits down to answer those questions with two brilliant guests: Pulitzer-winning journalist Wesley Lowery, who explains what the media's getting wrong about crime, and activist, writer and attorney Andrea Ritchie, who walks us through once and for all what abolition really means—and how we can take steps, big and little, to get there. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's episode, Andrea Ritchie joins Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola for a conversation about organizing for abortion decriminalization in a post-Roe United States. Andrea is a Black lesbian immigrant, and the author of the book Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. She is the co-author of the forthcoming book No More Police: A Case For Abolition, as well as the book Queer (In)Justice. And Andrea is the co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization. First, Andrea assesses the terrain for abortion decriminalization as it exists now that the US Supreme Court abolished federal rights to reproductive health care. She comments on the brewing threat of prosecutions against women and medical providers. Planned Parenthood in Montana announced they would no longer provide abortion medication to out-of-state patients. Andrea expresses her disgust and frustration with this decision. Later in the show, Andrea describes what people can do. Many of the ideas outlined stem from recognizing the connections between struggles for gender justice, migrant justice, economic and racial justice, sex workers' rights, disability justice, etc.

Join us for a lively exploration of the concept of "abolitionist safety planning" and supporting survivors from feminists and abolitionists. In situations of domestic violence, survival can become criminalized in unexpected and chilling ways. However, because isolation is a central strategy of abuse, many survivors lack the community and resources needed to find support for both the violence as well as the risks of criminalization. What can concrete support for intimate partner violence survivors look like from a prison abolitionist perspective? What can it look like in practice to support survivors while being acutely aware of both the dangers of abuse and the overwhelming violence of the criminal legal system? Join us for a lively exploration of the concept of "abolitionist safety planning" from feminists and abolitionists, who will share their experiences, challenges, and lessons learned from supporting survivors in situations of active and ongoing violence. Speakers: Mariame Kaba (moderator) is an organizer, educator, curator, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots abolitionist organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame is currently a researcher at Interrupting Criminalization, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. Kaba is the author of We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, Missing Daddy, See You Soon and Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators with Shira Hassan. Aracelia Aguilar (she/her) is one of the Empowerment Directors at DeafHope, providing direct services to Deaf DV/SV survivors. DeafHope recognizes the system barriers and institutional oppressions Deaf survivors navigate through to get to safety, and Aracelia's advocacy strongly focuses on putting the survivor at the center of the work. Aracelia has also received training under Sujatha Baliga and Mimi Kim to incorporate Restorative and Transformative Justice into the work of DeafHope. Aracelia provides Teen Dating Violence, Consent & Boundaries, and Sexual Violence presentations for Deaf teens at High Schools all over the Bay Area. Rachel Caidor (she/her) has spent over 25 years providing direct service and organizational support to rape crisis and domestic violence survior support agencies in Chicago. She is a member of Love and Protect and supports the work of the Chicago Community Bond Fund. Shira Hassan (she/her) is the founder, co-creator and principal consultant for Just Practice, a capacity building project for organizations and community members, activists and leaders working at the intersection of transformative justice, harm reduction and collective liberation. She is the former executive director of the Young Women's Empowerment Project, an organizing and grassroots movement building project led by and for young people of color that have current or former experience in the sex trade and street economies. Hyejin Shim (she/her) is a Building Community Power Fellow at Community Justice Exchange. She has over a decade's experience in supporting survivors of domestic and sexual violence, particularly immigrant, refugee, and criminalized survivors of abuse. Hyejin is a co-founder of Survived and Punished, a national organization dedicated to supporting criminalized and incarcerated survivors of gender-based violence. This event is sponsored by Community Justice Exchange, Survived and Punished, Interrupting Criminalization, and Haymarket Books. https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org https://survivedandpunished.org https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/QEVuJuBrj5A Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

How has Black feminism ushered in our current understanding and practice of abolition? On the 48th episode of the Activist Files, advocacy associate maya finoh speaks with Andrea Ritchie, an attorney, author, organizer, and co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization and In Our Names Network, who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating, and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black cis/trans women and girls and trans and gender non-conforming people for the past three decades. maya and Andrea discuss what it's like being ahead of the curve on these concepts; why it's critical to center Black women, girls, and queer and trans people; the experience of working with survivors on abolitionist projects; and the impact of previous feminist organizations and formations on creating the Black feminist and abolitionist futures being actualized today. Andrea's newest book, No More Police: A Case for Abolition, which is co-authored with Mariame Kaba, will be released this summer. This episode is part of the Center for Constitutional Rights' programming honoring Women's History Month.

How does caste get articulated on the internet? Or where does caste creep in to our studies of media and technology? Can you dismantle Hindutva without dismantling caste? Black women organizers like Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie have emphasized police abolition in their work with survivors of sexual atrocities in the US, what are the overlaps and distinctions in how Dalit women activists are engaging with these political projects in the Indian context. This inaugural episode of season 4 for the We Be Imagining podcast interweaves commentary from Riya Singh, the founder of Dalit Women Fight, Murali Shanmugavelan, resarcher at Data and Society alongside some provocations from Thenmozhi Soundararajan of Equality Labs and the concluding plenary of the Dismantling Hindutva conference. Please write us at WeBeImagining@gmail.com with feedback on this episode or to share your perspective on caste and the digital :)**Please note, there are some descriptions of sexual violence and killings within the episode due to the realities of caste violence and brahminism. Riya Singh is a doctoral researcher in Women & Gender Studies at Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi. She is a part of Core Leadership Group in India's single and largest Dalit women-led collective, Dalit Women Fight. She works on ground with the survivors of caste based atrocities of Dalit community in six states of Northern India.Murali Shanmugavelan isa Faculty Fellow, Race and Technology at Data and Society. He researches caste in media and communication studies and digital cultures. Murali is currently working on the re-manifestation of caste and social hierarchies in digital cultures such as hate speech and platform economies. At Data & Society, Murali's work will scrutinise communication and technology studies from (anti)caste perspectives. His work will analyse everyday casteism on the Internet and develop actionable policy recommendations and build pedagogic content about caste in communications and technology studies.Lightly Edited Transcript Available here and you can find out more about We Be Imagining on our website or @WeBeImagining on Twitter and IG. IG + Twitter: @WeBeImaginingSupport Us: On PatreonHost: J. Khadijah Abdurahman Music: Drew LewisLinks for Episode:Dalit Women FightEQUALITY LABSCaste-hate speech Report by Murali ShanmugavelanDismantling Global HindutvaDGH: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Closing StatementHow to write anti-caste solidarity textsCast(e)ing Indian Media: Unsettling Secular MythologiesPractice of Caste in USA - Series#1- Q&A with Dr. Balmurli Natrajan & Dr. Murali ShanmugavelanAdvocacy Group Fights India Caste System Discrimination in Silicon ValleyTrapped in Silicon Valley's Hidden Caste System | WIREDOpinion | California's lawsuit against Cisco shines a light on caste discrimination in the US and around the world - The Washington PostScheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989

Boarded up storefronts at Valley Plaza, North Hollywood, CA on October 21, 2011. The nearly 100 acre retail strip mall was largely abandoned after the 2008 financial crisis. | Image by Steve Devol is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 On today's show: 0:08 – John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation joins us to discuss the Senate's impasse over the filibuster. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health joins us again for our weekly COVID science segment. 1:08 – Hamid Khan, Coordinator and Organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition (@stoplapdspying) and Andrea Ritchie (@dreanyc123), author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color and co-founder of the Interrupting Criminalization initiative join us to unpack the LAPD shooting death of Valentina Orellana Peralta. 1:33 – We discuss the racism of automated traffic enforcement with Emily Hopkins (@indyemapolis), an Abrams Reporting Fellow at ProPublica who co-authored an investigation into the racial disparities of Chicago's automated traffic enforcement system and Brian Hofer (@b_haddy), who chairs the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission, and is executive director of the advocacy group Secure Justice. The post Senate at an impasse over filibuster; COVID science with Dr. Swartzberg; LAPD collaterally kills 14-year-old Valentina Orellana Peralta days before Christmas; Plus the racism of Chicago's automated traffic enforcement appeared first on KPFA.

In this episode, we hear from Kandace Montgomery, co-founder of  Black Visions Collective, a group working to shape a political home for Black people across Minnesota since 2017. Kandace shares her pathway to organizing as well as the challenges and pitfalls of being thrust into the limelight as a young organization. She tells us of her experience organizing around the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and where she and Black Visions are headed in the future.  We also hear from police misconduct attorney, abolitionist, and organizer, Andrea Ritchie. 

A Study and Struggle critical conversation about what it means for abolition to be intersectional. Study and Struggle organizes against criminalization and incarceration in Mississippi through mutual aid, political education, and community building. We provide a bilingual Spanish and English curriculum with discussion questions and reading materials, as well as financial support, to over 100 participants in radical study groups inside and outside prisons in Mississippi. These groups correspond with groups from across the country through our pen pal program. We regularly come together for online conversations hosted by Haymarket Books. The curriculum, built by a combination of currently- and formerly-incarcerated people, scholars, and community organizers, centers around the interrelationship between prison abolition and immigrant justice, with a particular attention to freedom struggles in Mississippi and the U.S. South. For our Fall 2021 four month curriculum, we have borrowed and augmented Ruth Wilson Gilmore's argument that “abolition is about presence, not absence. It has to be green, and in order to be green, it has to be red (anti-capitalist), and in order to be red, it has to be international," having added “intersectional” as a fourth analytical category that we hope moves us beyond “single-issue” organizing. Study and Struggle provides a bilingual curriculum to all our imprisoned comrades in Mississippi with the support of our friends at 1977 Books and makes it fully available online for other study groups to use as they see fit. Our Critical Conversations webinar series, hosted by Haymarket Books, will cover the themes for the upcoming month. Haymarket Books is an independent, radical, non-profit publisher. For more on Study and Struggle: https://www.studyandstruggle.com/ ---------------------------------------------------- Our first webinar theme covers "intersectionality" and will be a conversation about what it means for abolition to be intersectional and how abolition demands a reimagination of relationships, accountability, and what it means to be in community and to care for one another. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of commissary and mutual aid for our incarcerated participants. ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the author of We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame is currently a researcher at Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. She co-authored the guidebook Lifting As They Climbed and published a children's book titled Missing Daddy about the impacts of incarceration on children and families. Kaba is the recipient of the Cultural Freedom Prize from Lannan Foundation. Moni Cosby is a Chicago activist, mother, grandmother, writer and abolitionist who was incarcerated by the state of Illinois for 20 years. She has dedicated her life to ending all forms of violence that Black, Indigenous and People of Color, particularly women, encounter daily. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/eIVOxim1qS8 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

The Long Road to Justice Attorney Ben Crump joins The Takeaway to discuss the long road to justice for victims of state violence. Scott Roberts, Senior Director of Criminal Justice Campaigns for Color of Change, also joins to discuss the work to keep the victims' memories alive and in national discourse.  A Look at Police Violence Against Black Women and Queer People  The Takeaway speaks with Andrea Ritchie, a co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization, an initiative that aims to end the criminalization of women and LGBTQ people of color. She's also the author of “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.”  Why #FreeBritney Matters to Disability Rights Advocates The Takeaway speaks with Haley Moss, an attorney and autism advocate, who has been following and writing about Britney Spears's conservatorship. Haley also wrote this article on how Britney Spears's conservatorship is a disability rights issue. "Blindspot: The Road to 9/11" Chronicles Events Leading Up to 9/11 Attacks Jim O'Grady, a reporter at WNYC and host of the podcast Blindspot: The Road to 9/11, joined The Takeaway to discuss.  For transcripts, see individual segment pages.

The Long Road to Justice Attorney Ben Crump joins The Takeaway to discuss the long road to justice for victims of state violence. Scott Roberts, Senior Director of Criminal Justice Campaigns for Color of Change, also joins to discuss the work to keep the victims' memories alive and in national discourse.  A Look at Police Violence Against Black Women and Queer People  The Takeaway speaks with Andrea Ritchie, a co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization, an initiative that aims to end the criminalization of women and LGBTQ people of color. She's also the author of “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.”  Why #FreeBritney Matters to Disability Rights Advocates The Takeaway speaks with Haley Moss, an attorney and autism advocate, who has been following and writing about Britney Spears's conservatorship. Haley also wrote this article on how Britney Spears's conservatorship is a disability rights issue. "Blindspot: The Road to 9/11" Chronicles Events Leading Up to 9/11 Attacks Jim O'Grady, a reporter at WNYC and host of the podcast Blindspot: The Road to 9/11, joined The Takeaway to discuss.  For transcripts, see individual segment pages.

Join us for a discussion with Ash-Lee Henderson, Jonel Beauvais, Che Johnson-Long, Andrea Ritchie and Lex Steppling on visions and strategies for community safety, part of the Beyond the Bars 2021 conference. Beyond the Bars - Towards Freedom: Violence, Safety and Abolition in 2021 This year marks the 11th annual Beyond the Bars Conference, coming one year after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in which multiple crises have unfolded, and the growth of social movements struggling for a more just and safe world have increased significantly. Given this, we hope to create deep and thoughtful conversations about the many forms of violence that our society has experienced; to surface and examine the ways in which movements are pushing for community and public safety in ways that do not reenforce the carceral state; and to explore why abolition has become so prevalent in the conversations, strategies and demands in the work of transforming approaches to justice and safety. In addition, we will take time to honor and celebrate the leadership of women impacted by incarceration, and the leadership of Black women, and all that we have and can learn from their work. And we will spend time building and amplifying the work of grassroots organizing. Conference Sponsors The Ford Foundation, Trinity Church Wall Street, the New York Women's Foundation, Columbia School of Social Work Student Services, Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion, the Eric H. Holder Jr. Inititiave for Civil and Political Rights, the Division of Social Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/voMGUF8OUt8 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

In Just Mercy, Stevenson shows us the inhumanity of the U.S. prison system. Today, we will discuss the road to dismantling that system with a leading abolitionist and One Books spring speaker: Andrea Ritchie. Andrea Ritchie has over 30 years of experience in organizing, litigating, writing about the criminalization of women of color and LGBTQ people in the U.S. After last year's pandemic and economic recession collided with police violence, Ritchie explains why recentering the defund movement on the needs of these marginalized groups is more important than ever. Learn more at interruptingcriminalization.com

After his death on May 25, 2020, George Floyd became the face of a movement against police violence. But attorney Andrea Ritchie says, in some ways, the prosecution and conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin created a false sense of progress in that movement. Ritchie focuses on police misconduct and is the author of the book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women And Women Of Color.Bowling Green State University criminologist Phillip Stinson explains why so few police officers are prosecuted and convicted for murder. Stinson maintains the Henry A. Wallace Police Crime Database.In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.We're working on a future episode about people who got involved in activism in the past year. We want to know why — and whether you've stayed involved. If this sounds like you, please respond to our callout here.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

After his death on May 25, 2020, George Floyd became the face of a movement against police violence. But attorney Andrea Ritchie says, in some ways, the prosecution and conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin created a false sense of progress in that movement. Ritchie focuses on police misconduct and is the author of the book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women And Women Of Color.Bowling Green State University criminologist Phillip Stinson explains why so few police officers are prosecuted and convicted for murder. Stinson maintains the Henry A. Wallace Police Crime Database.In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.We're working on a future episode about people who got involved in activism in the past year. We want to know why — and whether you've stayed involved. If this sounds like you, please respond to our callout here.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

Prison and police abolitionist and attorney, Andrea Ritchie joins adrienne this week on The Emergent Strategy Podcast. What does it take to build new worlds? First, Andrea says, start with your imagination. As always, if you're not comfortable, you better get you some comfort and tune in. In love.

The second in a series of Critical Conversations organized by Study and Struggle discussing prison abolition and immigrant justice. ———————————————— The Study and Struggle program is the first phase of an ongoing project to organize against incarceration and criminalization in Mississippi through four months of political education and community building. Our Critical Conversations webinar series, hosted by Haymarket Books, will cover the themes for the upcoming month. Haymarket Books is an independent, radical, non-profit publisher. The second webinar theme is Abolition, Intersectionality, and Care and will be a conversation about what it means for abolition to be intersectional and how abolition demands a reimagination of what it means to be in community and to care for one another. ———————————————— Speakers: Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He's the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!,” and the creator of the mutual aid toolkit at BigDoorBrigade.com. His latest book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), forthcoming from Verso Press this summer. Andrea J. Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant police misconduct attorney and organizer whose writing, litigation, and advocacy has focused on policing and criminalization of women and LGBT people of color for the past two decades. She is currently Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Criminalization at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, where she recently launched the Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action initiative. She is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Say Her Name: What it Means to Center Black Women's Experiences of Police Violence in Who Do You Serve? Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States, Surviving the Streets of New York: Experiences of LGBT Youth, YMSM and YWSW Engaged in Survival Sex, and Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color, in The Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology and has published numerous articles, policy reports and research studies. Victoria Law is a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, and co-author of the new book Prison By Any Other Name. She frequently writes about the intersections between mass incarceration, gender and resistance. Pauline Rogers, is formerly incarcerated, and, Co-founder of the Reaching & Educating for Community Hope (RECH) Foundation in Jackson, Mississippi. Jarvis Benson (moderator) is originally from Grenada, Mississippi and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2019. He currently lives in Washington DC and works on youth leadership development, voting accessibility, and social justice initiatives on campuses across the country. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/T5xefwldPLk Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Andrea Ritchie joins the show to talk about her research with the group Interrupting Criminalization, specifically their new report looking back on the “Defund the Police” demand in 2020. Interrupting Criminalization describes itself as an initiative that aims to interrupt and end the growing criminalization and incarceration of women and LGBTQ people of color for criminalized acts related to public order, poverty, child welfare, drug use, survival, and self-defense, including criminalization and incarceration of survivors of violence. The discussion begins with a look at the work that Interrupting Criminalization does, and their findings on the various successes and failures activists have had with the “Defund” demand over the last year. Perhaps most importantly, we talk about how the state has tried to undermine abolitionist efforts. Toward the end, we speak about the need to fund experimental approaches to harm, including those that might fail. Andrea Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant whose research, litigation, organizing, and policy advocacy has focused on policing and criminalization of women and LGBT people of color. She is the author of “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color,” and co-author of “Challenging Criminalization: A Call for A Comprehensive Philanthropic Response; Centering Black Women, Girls, and Fem(me)s in Campaigns for Expanded Sanctuary”; “Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women”; “A Roadmap for Change: Federal Policy Recommendations for Addressing the Criminalization of LGBT People and People Living with HIV”; and “Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States.” A nationally recognized expert on policing issues, Andrea supports and advises numerous groups across the country. She is also a frequent author of opinion pieces making critical interventions in current debates around police sexual violence, policing of young women, responses to mental health crises, and more. Andrea is a current Researcher-in-Residence at Barnard’s Center for Research on Women.  Visit our website beyond-prisons.com to find episode notes, resources, transcripts, and more. 

On the #RADIO show this week we cover a critical important movement to invest in kids and divest from youth prisons; hear the latest on the efforts to get police out of schools and use those funds to support kids instead; learn about the history of the defund movement and police violence in America; and get the lowdown on the most recent COVID-19 relief package thats in the US Senate. *Special guests include: Liz Ryan, Youth First Initiative, @NoKidsInPrison; Beatriz Beckford, MomsRising, @MomsRising, Andrea Ritchie, Barnard Center For Research on Women, @dreanyc123; and Matt Hayward, Congressional Progressive Caucus Center, @WeBuildProgress.  

Hey, magical folx! In this episode we discuss Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, which is *NOT* YA. We gotta say this at the top because its some sexist bs that women/femme adult fantasy writers get miscategorized as YA (read about how sexism impacts genre categorization). *Call to action* This fortnight, we're urging our magical community to learn more about abolishing borders, abolishing ICE and migrant justice as well as to support organizations doing this work. Watch/listen to the final plenary from this year's Allied Media Conference, “From Dreams to Practice: Abolition in Our Lifetimes”. The panel features a TON of rad ppl doing abolitionist work, including Miski Noor, Tawana “Honeycomb” Petty, Andrea Ritchie, Toni-Michelle Williams, Mariame Kaba and Rachel Herzing. Check out their work and learn learn learn and act act act [Note: I (K) attended the AMC virtually and I was BLOWN AWAY by the wisdom shared. Cannot recommend enough] Check out Harsha Walia's Ted Talk “A World Without State Borders”. Her book Undoing Border Imperialism is definitely on my TBR! Abolish ICE Denver is just one of the groups doing the work. They have an encampment outside of the Aurora ICE detention facility run by the for-profit prison company GEO Group. Check out their instagram for updates and action items. And donate if you can! **This isn't an exhaustive list! Please do research for your local area and share with us any resources you find in your journey. We will share those on Instagram and Twitter. We are often posting resources on social media as well, so check that out, too! Additionally, if you get a chance and are able, please consider becoming a patron on Patreon to get episodes early, access to our discord, and more. Or you can make a one time donation on ko-fi. Support feminist media, ppl!

Since the protests decrying the murder of George Floyd began in May, the institution of American policing has taken center stage. Activists are calling for change, and the phrase "defund the police" can be heard in cities across the country. As the concept of slashing police budgets and reinvesting those resources into Black and Brown communities goes increasingly mainstream, a more radical call is also gaining attention: Abolish the Police. Joining us to talk abolition, divestment, and what a world without police might look like are attorney, author, researcher, and organizer Andrea Ritchie, and senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s Trone Center for Justice, Carl Takei.

George Floyd’s death inspired an uprising, but there has been a lack of attention given to Breonna Taylor, another life lost to police brutality. Brittany and Eric speak with Andrea Ritchie about the need to demand justice for Black women.

The Abolition Suite is a series of AirGo episodes exploring the concepts and practices of policing and prison abolition with the thought leaders who have been pushing an abolitionist future forward for decades. The Abolitionist Suite is presented in support of the #DefundCPD campaign and the Black Abolitionist Network. Volume 3 features writer, organizer, and movement worker Andrea Ritchie. Andrea is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, and has devoted the last 25 years naming and advocating for women of color, especially LGBTQ women of color, who have been victims of police violence. Ritchie co-authored the report SayHerName: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color with Kimberle Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum. She and the guys talk about the portals opening in this moment, the ways that gender-based violence is an intrinsic tactic of policing, and much more. SHOW NOTES: Sign on to the #DefundCPD campaign: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-to-demand-defunding-of-the-chicago-police-department July 17 Black and Indigenous Solidarity Rally: https://www.facebook.com/events/s/black-indigenous-solidarity-ra/580611602644351/ Arrested Justice by Beth Ritchie: https://nyupress.org/9780814776223/arrested-justice/ INCITE!, a network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and violence in our homes and communities. https://incite-national.org/ Blackness, Animality, and the Unsovereign by Che Gossett: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2228-che-gossett-blackness-animality-and-the-unsovereign Dancing the Carceral Creep by Mimi Kim: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/804227k6 Ruthie Wilson Gilmore: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html Breonna Taylor and Gentrification: https://www.salon.com/2020/07/06/breonna-taylor-lawsuit-claims-no-knock-warrant-was-part-of-louisville-gentrification-plan/ Octavia Butler: https://octaviabutler.org/ Nalo Hopkinson: http://nalohopkinson.com/index.html Interrupting Criminalization: https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/ Vision 4 Black Lives 2020: https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/ In Our Names Network: https://www.inournamesnetwork.com/ Invisible No More: http://invisiblenomorebook.com/ Recorded 7/6/20 Music from this week's show: Song 33 - Noname I'll Do My Best - The Ritchie Family

On the #RADIO show this week we cover a critical important movement to invest in kids and divest from youth prisons; hear the latest on the efforts to get police out of schools and use those funds to support kids instead; learn about the history of the defund movement and police violence in America; and get the lowdown on the most recent COVID-19 relief package that’s in the US Senate. *Special guests include: Liz Ryan, Youth First Initiative, @NoKidsInPrison; Beatriz Beckford, MomsRising, @MomsRising, Andrea Ritchie, Barnard Center For Research on Women, @dreanyc123; and Matt Hayward, Congressional Progressive Caucus Center, @WeBuildProgress.

Before the killings of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta and George Floyd in Minneapolis, another major city was angered by the death of a black American at the hands of police. Breonna Taylor was fatally shot in her own apartment in March by officers serving a drug warrant. They are currently on administrative leave. John Yang talks to Andrea Ritchie of the Barnard Center for Research on Women. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Georgia’s Primary, George Floyd’s Funeral, and Congress’ Approach to Police Reform As the coronavirus pandemic has created uncertainty for the upcoming general election, many Americans are reconsidering how they’ll cast their ballots. This week, many primary voters in Georgia were greeted by long lines and malfunctioning voting machines. The chaos surrounding Georgia’s recent election has raised questions about whether or not the same issues will reoccur in November.  Also, George Floyd was laid to rest in Houston following weeks in which thousands of Americans took to the streets to decry police brutality in his name. Meanwhile, Congress is reckoning with how to respond to the protests and calls for police accountability. Two national reporters join Politics with Amy Walter to discuss the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, how Republicans are responding to calls for police accountability, and Georgia’s flawed elections.  Guest Host: Matt Katz, WNYC Guests: Nick Fandos, Congressional Correspondent for The New York Times Laura Barron-Lopez, National Political Reporter at POLITICO  Congressman James Clyburn on his Time in the Civil Rights Movement and Addressing Systemic Racism  This week, Democrats introduced the Justice in Policing Act on Capitol Hill.  If passed, the bill would prohibit chokeholds, ban some no-knock warrants, track police misconduct at the national level, and make it easier to pursue legal and civil action against the police. The momentum for the bill stems from the uprisings against police brutality after George Floyd was brutally killed by police officers in Minneapolis. Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina reflects on his time in the civil rights movement and what he hopes to accomplish through the Justice in Policing Act.  Guest: James Clyburn, Congressman from South Carolina’s 6th Congressional District and Majority Whip How “Defund the Police” has Become More Palatable to the Mainstream The killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis has shifted the way Americans see policing. Recent polling from The Washington Post found that 69 percent of Americans found “the killing of Floyd represents a broader problem within law enforcement.” While many high-ranking members of the Democratic Party don’t support calls to defund the police entirely, the notion of some form of defunding is picking up traction. A conversation about the politics of defunding the police. Guests: Alex Vitale, Author of "End of Policing" and Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of The Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College Andrea Ritchie, Researcher at the Interrupting Criminalization Initiative and author of "Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color" How Minneapolis Plans to Dismantle Their Police Department Minneapolis has been in the national spotlight since George Floyd was killed by police on video. Although the events there sparked protests across the nation, the city is also a catalyst for change. One progressive city leader, Steve Fletcher, has been working on police reform since he took office in 2018. He was among nine members of the Minneapolis city council that recently announced their commitment to dismantling the city’s police department.  Guest:  Steve Fletcher, Minneapolis City Council, Ward 3

Georgia’s Primary, George Floyd’s Funeral, and Congress’ Approach to Police Reform As the coronavirus pandemic has created uncertainty for the upcoming general election, many Americans are reconsidering how they’ll cast their ballots. This week, many primary voters in Georgia were greeted by long lines and malfunctioning voting machines. The chaos surrounding Georgia’s recent election has raised questions about whether or not the same issues will reoccur in November.  Also, George Floyd was laid to rest in Houston following weeks in which thousands of Americans took to the streets to decry police brutality in his name. Meanwhile, Congress is reckoning with how to respond to the protests and calls for police accountability. Two national reporters join Politics with Amy Walter to discuss the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, how Republicans are responding to calls for police accountability, and Georgia’s flawed elections.  Guest Host: Matt Katz, WNYC Guests: Nick Fandos, Congressional Correspondent for The New York Times Laura Barron-Lopez, National Political Reporter at POLITICO  Congressman James Clyburn on his Time in the Civil Rights Movement and Addressing Systemic Racism  This week, Democrats introduced the Justice in Policing Act on Capitol Hill.  If passed, the bill would prohibit chokeholds, ban some no-knock warrants, track police misconduct at the national level, and make it easier to pursue legal and civil action against the police. The momentum for the bill stems from the uprisings against police brutality after George Floyd was brutally killed by police officers in Minneapolis. Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina reflects on his time in the civil rights movement and what he hopes to accomplish through the Justice in Policing Act.  Guest: James Clyburn, Congressman from South Carolina’s 6th Congressional District and Majority Whip How “Defund the Police” has Become More Palatable to the Mainstream The killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis has shifted the way Americans see policing. Recent polling from The Washington Post found that 69 percent of Americans found “the killing of Floyd represents a broader problem within law enforcement.” While many high-ranking members of the Democratic Party don’t support calls to defund the police entirely, the notion of some form of defunding is picking up traction. A conversation about the politics of defunding the police. Guests: Alex Vitale, Author of "End of Policing" and Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of The Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College Andrea Ritchie, Researcher at the Interrupting Criminalization Initiative and author of "Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color" How Minneapolis Plans to Dismantle Their Police Department Minneapolis has been in the national spotlight since George Floyd was killed by police on video. Although the events there sparked protests across the nation, the city is also a catalyst for change. One progressive city leader, Steve Fletcher, has been working on police reform since he took office in 2018. He was among nine members of the Minneapolis city council that recently announced their commitment to dismantling the city’s police department.  Guest:  Steve Fletcher, Minneapolis City Council, Ward 3

Georgia’s Primary, George Floyd’s Funeral, and Congress’ Approach to Police Reform As the coronavirus pandemic has created uncertainty for the upcoming general election, many Americans are reconsidering how they’ll cast their ballots. This week, many primary voters in Georgia were greeted by long lines and malfunctioning voting machines. The chaos surrounding Georgia’s recent election has raised questions about whether or not the same issues will reoccur in November.  Also, George Floyd was laid to rest in Houston following weeks in which thousands of Americans took to the streets to decry police brutality in his name. Meanwhile, Congress is reckoning with how to respond to the protests and calls for police accountability. Two national reporters join Politics with Amy Walter to discuss the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, how Republicans are responding to calls for police accountability, and Georgia’s flawed elections.  Guest Host: Matt Katz, WNYC Guests: Nick Fandos, Congressional Correspondent for The New York Times Laura Barron-Lopez, National Political Reporter at POLITICO  Congressman James Clyburn on his Time in the Civil Rights Movement and Addressing Systemic Racism  This week, Democrats introduced the Justice in Policing Act on Capitol Hill.  If passed, the bill would prohibit chokeholds, ban some no-knock warrants, tracking police misconduct at the national level, and make it easier to pursue legal and civil action against the police. The momentum for the bill stems from the uprisings against police brutality after George Floyd was brutally killed by police officers in Minneapolis. Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina reflects on his time in the civil rights movement and what he hopes to accomplish through the Justice in Policing Act.  Guest: James Clyburn, Congressman from South Carolina’s 6th Congressional District and Majority Whip How “Defund the Police” has Become More Palatable to the Mainstream The killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis has shifted the way Americans see policing. Recent polling from The Washington Post found that 69 percent of Americans found “the killing of Floyd represents a broader problem within law enforcement.” While many high-ranking members of the Democratic Party don’t support calls to defund the police entirely, the notion of some form of defunding is picking up traction. A conversation about the politics of defunding the police. Guests: Alex Vitale, Author of "End of Policing" and Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of The Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College Andrea Ritchie, Researcher at the Interrupting Criminalization Initiative and author of "Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color" How Minneapolis Plans to Dismantle Their Police Department Minneapolis has been in the national spotlight since George Floyd was killed by police on video. Although the events there sparked protests across the nation, the city is also a catalyst for change. One progressive city leader, Steve Fletcher, has been working on police reform since he took office in 2018. He was among nine members of the Minneapolis city council that recently announced their commitment to dismantling the city’s police department.  Guest:  Steve Fletcher, Minneapolis City Council, Ward 3

Protests continue across every state in this country, and in countries around the world, in the fight for racial justice for Black lives. Maria and Julio talk about the different ways people have been organizing, the gaslighting they have seen in responses from those in power, and what this means in the context of 2020 primary elections.ITT Staff Picks: “Responding to a protest of police violence with more police violence and more criminalization, is the absolute worst possible response," Andrea Ritchie, told reporter Fernanda Echavarri in this piece about the effects of curfews for Mother Jones.Astead W. Herndon's piece for The New York Times focuses on flipping the framework for the 2020 election. He writes, "If Democrats want people to vote, party leaders need to listen to why people are angry."Zack Linley writes for The Root about the police killing of Manuel Ellis, a black man who died in Tacoma, Washington on March 3, 2020. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

0:08 – The U.S. is erupting in protests against the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Steven Taylor and many more. Thousands of people joined marches, uprisings and a car caravan on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Oakland. Police departments across the country have responded with brutal and excessive force against demonstrators, and onlookers have recorded several instances of vehicles driven into crowds of protesters. Cat Brooks debriefs the protests with Patrisse Cullors, political strategist, co-founder of Black Lives Matter & founder of Reform LA Jails, and Andrea Ritchie (@dreanyc123), a New York-based police misconduct attorney and organizer. Ritchie is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. 0:34 – We take calls about what people witnessed in protests across the Bay Area. 1:08 – Alicia Garza is an activist, writer and co-founder of Black Lives Matter, currently organizing with Black Futures Lab and the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She discusses the protests for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, as well as the calls for Joe Biden to select a Black woman as his vice president pick. She cowrote the Washington Post op ed, “Biden still needs black women. Here are 3 things he needs to do.” 1:34 – As protests began to erupt, President Trump issued an executive order as a rebuke to Twitter's attempt to curb Trump's violent tweeting. The executive order pertains to Section 230, part of U.S. law that shields tech and social media websites from liability for content posted on the platforms. We host a discussion with Electronic Frontier Foundation legal director Corynne McSherry (@cmcsherr) and attorney Carrie Goldberg (@cagoldberglaw). The post Protests against racist police violence explode across U.S. demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Steven Taylor & Tony McDade — a debrief with Patrisse Cullors, Andrea Ritchie and Alicia Garza appeared first on KPFA.

As Grace Lee Boggs so brilliantly stated, “In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of ‘critical mass.’ It’s always about critical connections.” It is with gratitude that we both reflect on twenty years of the Allied Media Conference and look ahead to building on the legacy of the critical connections that have led us here today. Special thanks to: Rev. Joan Ross (WNUC Station Manager), Morris Porter (sound engineer), Puck Lo (editor), Emi Kane (AMP Board member, interviewer and co-wrangler of this project), and all of our guests, especially Sterling Toles for providing the theme music!

In this episode Caitlin connects and speaks with organizer, researcher and lawyer Andrea Ritchie. Andrea Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant and police misconduct attorney and organizer who has engaged in extensive research, writing, and advocacy around criminalization of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people of color over the past two decades. She recently published Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color now available from Beacon Press.  Ritchie is a nationally recognized expert and sought after commentator on policing issues. She is currently Researcher-in-Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Criminalization at the Social Justice Institute of the Barnard Center for Research on Women. In 2014 she was awarded a Senior Soros Justice Fellowship to engage in documentation and advocacy around profiling and policing of women of color – trans and not trans, queer and not queer.  Referenced in this episode:  Andrea's Books: Invisible No More & Queer Injustice Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality against Black Women by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and Andrea J. Ritchie adrienne maree brown Mariame Kaba The Mandate by Mary Hooks Octavia's Brood by Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown Alexis Pauline Gumbs intro music by Abhimanyu Janamanchi. production by Nora Rasman.

Andrea Ritchie is an attorney, organizer, and author of Invisible No More, a recent book about how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement .

For most kids, having "the talk" means talking about kids' changing bodies as they enter adolescence. But for kids of color, "the talk" is also about how to survive America. Bridget and Yves talk to Andrea Ritchie about gender, race and violence. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

"When I come across a story involving police interactions with black women, it's hard to tell whether a story took place in 1863, in 1963 or 2013." This is just one of the points you'll here in this interview with Andrea Ritchie, author of "Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color." We discuss how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement from both a historical and modern lens. Andrea Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant, police misconduct attorney and organizer who has engaged in extensive research, writing, and advocacy around criminalization of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people of color over the past two decades. She is currently Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Criminalization at the Barnard Center for Research on Women's Social Justice Institute, and was a 2014 Senior Soros Justice Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrea Ritchie, author of 'Invisible No More' discusses how women of color bear the brunt of police violence just as much as men of color, how nobody is talking about it, and what we should be doing about the issue.

This week, we are airing selections from a panel discussion that took place earlier this month here in Bloomington. Andrea Ritchie and Victoria Law, both of whom were featured on Kite Line earlier this month, sit alongside Andrea Sterling at a panel called “Building Community Resilience”. In it, these women discuss the myriad ways that …

This week, we share a conversation we had with Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and activist whose work focuses on police violence against the queer community and women of color. She speaks about current political conditions, and the concepts in her most recent book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. …

What difference does it make when some people are left out of the picture? When police don't keep data on queer women, for instance - or when the culture looks all white. Activist attorney Andrea Ritchie returns with her book, Invisible No More and Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas - 2 generations of picture makers talk about mothers, sons and radical art. Thanks to TED Women for their collaboration on this report.  Plus V20 call to action “My Revolution Lives In This Body” by Eve Ensler ft. Rosario Dawson from a film short directed by Deborah Anderson. Why not become a LFShow member https://Patreon.com/theLFShow

In the final episode of the first season, Monica and Page reflect on a year of the Lit Review podcast! They share some of their favorite episode excerpts from conversations in Season 1 with Joey Mogul, Andrea Ritchie, Bill Ayers, and Debbie Southorn. They also make a surprise phone call to a very dear abolitionist friend and mentor, Mariame Kaba, who recently moved to New York City. Together, they reflect on the podcast's significance.

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 podcast@crimethinc.com. {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 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 info@certaindays.org. Write to imprisoned CopWatcher Ramsey Orta: Ramsey Orta, 16A4200 Franklin Correctional Facility P.O. Box 10 Malone, New York 12953–0010 Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross. 70-year-old black liberation prisoner Herman Bell needs his letters for the Parole Board before December 15. Go here to find out how you can support his efforts for parole. 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 California: Sonoma County IWW wildfire rebuilding fund Puerto Rico: Submedia's grassroots disaster relief support, Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: here and here. Also, check out Mutual Aid Disaster Relief's website for on-the-ground reports from Puerto Rico. Mexico: Oaxaca Earthquake Autonomous Solidarity Campaign  

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 info@certaindays.org. 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 California: Sonoma County IWW wildfire rebuilding fund Puerto Rico: Submedia's grassroots disaster relief support, Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: here and here. Also, check out Mutual Aid Disaster Relief's website for on-the-ground reports from Puerto Rico. Mexico: Oaxaca Earthquake Autonomous Solidarity Campaign      

This week's episode is packed with resistance news from across Turtle Island and beyond. Struggles led by water protectors against gas and oil infrastructure are happening, seemingly, everywhere. This past week, students have been busy, while prisoners have not. We have a brief update on the work stoppage and Holman Prison. We also have interviews with a comrade at the anti-fracking blockade in Olympia, WA, and with a J20 supporter about the trials that have just begun. Stay tuned until the end for CrimethInc.'s call for January 20, 2018: “Build the Base, Take the Initiative. A Call to Expand Our Capacity.” {November 22nd, 2017}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:55} Pipeline Resistance {7:20} Olympia Blockade Interview {12:20} Repression Roundup {17:45} Next Week's News {23:10} J20 support resources: J20 Legal Defense Fund Sub.media's Defend J20 Resistance info video Twitter Fed book How to Support the First Round of J20 Trials 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. Supporters have called for a rally to support J20 defendants outside the courthouse in DC for the morning of November 27. Keep up with @DefendJ20 on Twitter for more info. 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. Call Burgerville corporate at (360) 694–1521 to demand they call off the use of private security against picketing workers. The full communiqué from the occupation of the Cathedral of Learning in Pittsburgh, PA. An introduction to the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement – Inland Empire, California. 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 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. The RojiNegro infoshop in Bogotá, Colombia needs your help to establish a permanent space. Other anarchist podcast episodes mentioned in this Hotwire: An audio report about the anti-Klan rally held Monday at the University of North Florida. This episode of The Final Straw has interviews with Cascadia Forest Defenders about their anti-logging occupation in the Willamette National Forest. Videos & Pictures Camp Makwa water protectors locking down to disrupt Line 3 construction in so-called Minnesota. 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 info@certaindays.org. 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 California: Sonoma County IWW wildfire rebuilding fund Puerto Rico: Submedia's grassroots disaster relief support, Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: here and here. Also, check out Mutual Aid Disaster Relief's website for on-the-ground reports from Puerto Rico. Mexico: Oaxaca Earthquake Autonomous Solidarity Campaign Political prisoner birthdays: Check out this guide from New York City Anarchist Black Cross. Josh Williams #1292002 Jefferson City Correctional Center 8200 No More Victims Jefferson City, MO 65101 {November 25} Corrections & clarifications: Last Hotwire we reported that anti-fascists had driven a professor out of his job at Virginia Tech University. He wrote directly to It's Going Down to state that he still has his job and position at the university. Check out what he had to say here.    

Today is the beginning of the J20 inauguration protester trials in DC. There are some important developments in the case, so we interview Sam from DC Legal Posse about what's going on and how to support the defendants. We also interview a Polish anti-fascist from Warsaw about this weekend's 60,000 person far-right march that was littered with Nazi slogans. The folks at the IRL squat in Chicago called us to talk about resisting their eviction and squatting as a window to a world outside of capitalism. Stay tuned until the end for exciting calls for upcoming action camps and decentralized days of action. {November 15th, 2017}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:45} Ultranationalist march in Poland {9:50} IRL squat in Chicago {18:00} J20 updates{25:50} Next Week's News {30:50} J20 support resources: J20 Legal Defense Fund Sub.media's Defend J20 Resistance info video Twitter Fed book Agency: The J20 Case, What You Need to Know The Nation published a really good article, found here, on the importance of supporting the J20 inauguration day defendants. The Intercept: Group Investigating Police Conduct On Inauguration Day Has History Of Siding With Police Anti-capitalists in Montreal are holding an anti-G7 organizing assembly on November 18 at … 1PM to 5PM Comité social Centre-Sud 1710 Beaudry Near the Beaudry metro station. The room is wheelchair accessible. On November 21 at 8 PM EST, tune into CrimethInc.com for a live video presentation in which an experienced legal support worker will explain what grand juries are, how they work, and how to resist them. Donate here to support the Rojinegro anarchist infoshop in Bogotá, Colombia. Call in to Wabash Valley Correctional Facility and the Indiana Department of Corrections to demand that prisoners on strike stop being harassed by guards, be removed from camera cells, and that guards stop tampering with prisoner mail. Wabash Valley Warden Richard Brown: (812) 398–5050 IDOC Commissioner Robert E. Carter Jr.: (317) 232–5711 IDOC Chief of Staff Randy Koester: (317) 232–5711 Here is the Facebook page for Northwest Detention Center Resistance in Tacoma, WA. 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. Anti-fascist organizing resources: This Is Not A Dialogue The Anti-Fascist Action chapter of Recipes for Disaster Episodes 11 and 12 of The Ex-Worker podcast Torch Anti-Fascist Network, the IWW's General Defense Committee, Antifa International Notes on Anti-Fascist Self-Defense Training: 10 Lessons from the Russian Anti-Fascist Experience Tour dates for Mark Bray speaking on his new book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook: 11/15 Davis, CA: University of California, Davis- Voorhies Hall 126 7PM 11/16 Stanford University: 3:30- Building 320, Room 105, Braun Corner (Geology Corner) 11/16 San Francisco: City Lights (at night) 11/17 LA: Skylight Books 11/18 Berkeley: South Berkeley Senior Center (2939 Ellis St) 7PM 11/19 San Francisco: Howard Zinn Bookfair Full event details, including specific locations and times, can be found here. Writings by Greek anarchist political prisoners Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis: Their most recent statement Oral declaration to the court – Pola Roupa Political Letter to Society – Kostas Gournas, Nikos Maziotis, Pola Roupa Statement to the Athens Criminal Court – Nikos Maziotis Other anarchist podcast episodes mentioned in this Hotwire: The latest IGDcast has an interview with Indiana Department of Corrections Watch, who are organizing support for the hunger strike at Wabash Valley Correctional. This episode of The Final Straw has interviews with two latinx organizers about DACA and the DREAM act. The brand new episode 59 of The Ex-Worker podcast has first-hand stories and lessons from anarchists who resisted grand juries. This episode of The Final Straw has interviews with Cascadia Forest Defenders about their anti-logging occupation in the Willamette National Forest. CrimethInc. essays mentioned in this Hotwire: Make Your Own Effigies: A Tactic for Delegitimizing Authority and Rendering Dissent Visible Videos & Pictures Anarchists in Moscow commemorating the centennial of the Russian Revolution Why to support the J20 defendants The captured white nationalist banner which was corrected to now say “It's Ok To Be… Antifascist Action.” The older women who sat and blocked the nationalist march in Warsaw, Poland on November 11 The Mi'kmaq blockade of the Alton Gas Project in Nova Scotia The flyer handed out in the neighborhood of the IRL squat in Chicago 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 info@certaindays.org. 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 California: Sonoma County IWW wildfire rebuilding fund Puerto Rico: Submedia's grassroots disaster relief support, Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: here and here. Also, check out Mutual Aid Disaster Relief's website for on-the-ground reports from Puerto Rico. Mexico: Oaxaca Earthquake Autonomous Solidarity Campaign Corrections & Clarifications Last Hotwire we repeated an uncredible claim that the Department of Homeland security considers Antifa a terrorist group. For a thorough debunking of that claim, check out Taking Out the Trash: Fact Checking Politico's “Antifa Attacks”. Now, it is true that New Jersey's Department of Homeland Security has written up a profile of anti-fascists, but they don't explicitly call Antifa a terrorist group.    

This week we have a greater amount of animal liberation actions to report on than usual. We interview Sam from DC Legal Posse about the first J20 trials beginning next week, and what people can do to support the defendants. After the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Sunday, we explore whether it makes sense to designate white men as the “real terrorists.” We also interview an anarchist in Brazil about the Operation Érebo repression campaign against anarchists there. Anarchists from throughout history travel forward in time to warn us about the horrors of state socialism and about the dangers of standardized time itself!. {November 8th, 2017}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:40} Texas Shooting and White Masculinity {6:15} Daylight Saving {9:30} Anarchist Media Jingles {16:40} Repression Roundup {18:00} Next Week's News {27:38} Upcoming anarchist book fairs: Boston Anarchist Book Fair November 11–12 775 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 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. J20 support resources: J20 Legal Defense Fund Thunderclap social media campaign Sub.media's Defend J20 Resistance info video Twitter Fed book Agency: The J20 Case, What You Need to Know The Nation published a really good article, found here, on the importance of supporting the J20 inauguration day defendants. Look at this insane picture of a protest against mining in the Hambach Forest, Germany. Anti-capitalists in Montreal are holding an anti-G7 organizing assembly on November 18 at … 1PM to 5PM Comité social Centre-Sud 1710 Beaudry Near the Beaudry metro station. The room is wheelchair accessible. Bail and legal support fundraiser for anti-pipeline Camp White Pine in Pennsylvania. Donate here to support the Rojinegro anarchist infoshop in Bogotá, Colombia. Full report on the ongoing anti-Wells Fargo occupation going on at Reed College in Portland, OR. Here in the Facebook page for Northwest Detention Center Resistance in Tacoma, WA. Other anarchist podcast episodes mentioned in this Hotwire: The latest episode of The Final Straw has interviews with Cascadia Forest Defenders about their anti-logging occupation in the Willamette National Forest. Hotwire 7 has a fleshed out anarchist critique of the use of the word “terrorism”. Hotwire 11 introduces the zombie anarchists on Twitter rising from the grave to set the record straight on state communism. Episode 54 of The Ex-Worker details an anarchist response to the election of Donald Trump. Ex-Worker episode 55 is all about the J20 inauguration protests in DC. The giant German coal mine we mentioned is in the middle of the Hambacher Forest, which was covered in Episode 37 of The Ex-Worker. CrimethInc. essays mentioned in this Hotwire: The Illegitimacy of Violence, the Violence of Legitimacy AlieNation: The Map of Despair One Hundred Years after the Bolshevik Counterrevolution Weathering Jail and Prison: Tips from Anarchist Prisoners Dane Powell and Joseph Buddenburg 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 info@certaindays.org. 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 California: Sonoma County IWW wildfire rebuilding fund Puerto Rico: Submedia's grassroots disaster relief support, Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: here and here. Also, check out Mutual Aid Disaster Relief's website for on-the-ground reports from Puerto Rico. Mexico: Oaxaca Earthquake Autonomous Solidarity Campaign    

This week we bring you two interviews: one with a southern anarchist who went to Tennessee to oppose the failed “white lives matter” rally on Saturday, and another with an anarchist in Catalonia about developments and reflections on the independence process there. Our headlines and repression roundup take us around the world, from anti-capitalist queer and trans action in DC to general revolt in Haiti to sweeping anti-anarchist repression in Brazil and even back in time to the Russian Revolution! Listen until the end for announcements of upcoming anarchist book fairs and calls to action. {November 1st, 2017}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {2:00} Fascists fail in Tennessee {9:35} Catalonia {14:25} Repression Roundup {23:00} Welcome home Dane Powell {24:18} Anti-anarchist Operation Érebo in Brazil {25:55} Next Week's News {27:15} Upcoming anarchist book fairs: Boston Anarchist Book Fair November 11–12 775 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA Click on the following links to support two active logging blockages happening in the Pacific Northwest. The Cascadia Forest Defenders are fighting against the Goose Timber Sale of 2,500 acres of the Willamette National Forest, while the Save the Mattole's Ancient Forest campaign in Humboldt County, California have maintained occupations and blockades of the forest since June! Check out this full report on the bungled neo-Nazi rally in Tennessee this past Saturday. As police and FBI ramp up their investigations related to August's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, we recommend acquainting yourself with this useful guide to understanding investigations and repression as related to anti-fascism. Go here to donate to J20 political prisoner Dane Powell's release fund. You can find the DropJ20 drop-the-charges call-in campaign here. The Nation published a really good article, found here, on the importance of supporting the J20 inauguration day defendants. The CNI Revolutionary Cooperative for social libertarian revolution has issued an open call for anarchist tech guerrillas over the next three years. An overview of Colombia's indigenous, land-based resistance Video of feisty demonstrations in Santiago, Chile in memory of disappeared, dead anarchist comrade Santiago Maldonado. Other anarchist podcast episodes mentioned in this Hotwire: We say we reported on the burning cop car case in France last Hotwire, but it was actually on October 18. Our bad. In October 11's Hotwire, we reported on the prison uprising in McCormick, South Carolina after prisoners were rationed down to one cup of water per day. CrimethInc. essays mentioned in this Hotwire: Restless Specters of the Anarchist Dead: A Few Words from the Undead of 1917 Make Your Own Effigies: A Tactic for Delegitimizing Authority and Rendering Dissent Visible 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 info@certaindays.org. 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 California: Sonoma County IWW wildfire rebuilding fund Puerto Rico: Submedia's grassroots disaster relief support, Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: here and here. Also, check out Mutual Aid Disaster Relief's website for on-the-ground reports from Puerto Rico. Mexico: Oaxaca Earthquake Autonomous Solidarity Campaign Here is the sample script and instructions for the call-in campaign to support McCormick prison rebels in South Carolina. Call Bryan P. Stirling, Director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections at 803–896–8555 or fax 803–896–3972. You can also e-mail stirling.bryan@doc.sc.gov, corrections.info@doc.state.sc.us, mkeel@sled.sc.gov, dhamilton@sled.sc.gov, bolchoz.brian@doc.sc.gov, Leggings.maria@doc.sc.gov Political prisoner birthdays: Ed Poindexter #27767 Nebraska State Penitentiary Post Office Box 2500 Lincoln, Nebraska 68542 For a good introduction to writing prisoners, check out this guide from New York City Anarchist Black Cross.    

In this Hotwire we have three different interviews about the alt-right's defeat in Gainesville. As democratic confederalist Kurdish forces in Rojava are beating back ISIS, the nationalist, capitalist Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq is threatening civil war with the Iraqi military. In response, Kurdish anarchists speak out against war and the state. The discovery of Santiago Maldonado's body in Argentina has sparked the fiercest clashes with police that the South American country has seen in years. Some good news: the first J20 political prisoner is about to be released; but hundreds more are awaiting trial and facing years in prison. Listen until the end for announcements of anarchist bookfairs, anti-fascist action, and east coast CrimethInc. speaking events this week. {October 25, 2017}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {2:10} Anarchists in Kurdistan {7:10} Catalonia {10:05} Anti-fascists win the day in Gainesville {11:55} Jingles {24:55} Repression Roundup {25:55} Next Week's News {28:30} Alerta! This Saturday, October 28, anti-fascists are mobilizing against white supremacists in Murfreesboro, TN. Upcoming anarchist book fairs: The Los Angeles Anarchist Book Fair takes place October 28 and 29 at Leimert Park Plaza. The London Anarchist Book Fair also takes place on Saturday, October 28 at Park View School. Support the folks arrested protesting the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philly this weekend by donating here or here. Go here to support the Makwa Frontline Camp.. They're in need of towtrucks, carpenters, firewood, and people experienced in direct action training. This damning leak from Atlanta Anti-Fascists shows how the involvement of the would-be murderers arrested after Richard Spencer's talk in Gainesville was planned and sanctioned by Spencer's National Police Institute. 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 California: Sonoma County IWW wildfire rebuilding fund Puerto Rico: Submedia's grassroots disaster relief support, Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: here and here. Also, check out Mutual Aid Disaster Relief's website for on-the-ground reports from Puerto Rico. Mexico: Oaxaca Earthquake Autonomous Solidarity Campaign Support the Cascadia Forest Defenders website who are fighting against the Goose Timber Sale of 2,500 acres of the Willamette National Forest. Go here to donate to J20 political prisoner Dane Powell's release fund. You can find the DropJ20 drop-the-charges call-in campaign here. The Nation published a really good article on the importance of supporting the J20 inauguration day defendants. For current information on how to support folks still facing charges from No Dakota Access Pipeline actions at Standing Rock, visit FreshetCollective.org. CrimethInc. “From Democracy to Freedom” presentations this week: Friday, October 27, 7 PM Wooden Shoe Books 704 South Street Philadelphia, PA Monday, October 30, 7 PM Lamplighter Coffee Roasters 26 N. Morris Street Richmond, VA 23220 To bring a CrimethInc. speaking event to your town, just email rollingthunder@crimethinc.com. Other anarchist podcast episodes mentioned in this Hotwire: Episodes 36 and 39 of The Ex-Worker delve deep into the revolution in Rojava. Episodes 47 and 48 introduce the anarchist critique of democracy. The latest IGD Cast from ItsGoingDown.org has an interview with members of the CNT on the question of Catalan independence. Resonance audio-distro have an audiozine version of This Is Not A Dialogue. Not Just Free Speech but Freedom Itself. CrimethInc. essays mentioned in this Hotwire: Catalunya: Facing Two Bad Options, Choose the Third. On the Showdown between Spain and Catalunya. This Is Not A Dialogue. Not Just Free Speech but Freedom Itself. To Change Everything 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 info@certaindays.org. Here is the October 2017 Political Prisoner Birthday Poster, which you can use to organize a letter writing night. For a good introduction to writing prisoners, check out this guide from New York City Anarchist Black Cross. Political prisoner birthdays: Edward Goodman Africa #AM–4974 SCI Mahonoy 301 Morea Road Frackville, Pennsylvania 17932 {October 31}  

In this Hotwire we share the anti-fascist call from Florida to oppose Richard Spencer in Gainesville on October 19. We discuss the upcoming J20 trials in which nearly 200 protesters are charged with conspiracy for protesting the inauguration, as well as the outcome of the burning cop car case that just concluded in Paris. Considering the bullshit repression and liberal lawsuits in the wake of #Charlottesville, we make the case about why anti-fascism must mean anti-statism. We also borrow part of a great interview with Puerto Rican anarchist Frank Lopez on mutual relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Stay tuned until the end because we have some important calls to support political prisoners, calls to support forest defenders in Oregon, political prisoner birthdays, announcements for upcoming anarchist book fairs, and the repression roundup. {October 18, 2017}     -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:42} Puerto Rico: Mutual Aid vs. the State {11:35} Anti-Fascism means Anti-Statism {18:40} J20 Trials Start Soon {23:32} Next Week's News {27:30} TOMORROW: Anti-fascists in Florida are calling for anti-racists to oppose Richard Spencer, who will speak at the University of Florida in Gainesville on Thursday, October 19. Check out this call to mobilize against white supremacists in Shelbyville, TN on October 28. If you're in the Pacific Northwest, check out this tour of pipeline saboteurs coming to a city near you: October 18th – Phoenix, OR Phoenix Branch Library 510 W 1st St, Phoenix, OR 97535 6:30 – 9:30 pm October 20th – Portland, OR First Congregational Church 1126 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205 7:00 – 9:00 pm Olympia, WA Date and Location TBD October 25th – Seattle, WA Pipsqueak Gallery 173 16th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 6:30 – 8:30 PM Upcoming anarchist book fairs: The Los Angeles Anarchist Book Fair takes place October 28 and 29 at Leimert Park Plaza. The London Anarchist Book Fair also takes place on Saturday, October 28 at Park View School. 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 California: Sonoma County IWW wildfire rebuilding fund Puerto Rico: Submedia's grassroots disaster relief support, Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: here and here. Also, check out Mutual Aid Disaster Relief's website for on-the-ground reports from Puerto Rico. Mexico: Oaxaca Earthquake Autonomous Solidarity Campaign There's a call to disrupt the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia from October 21 to 24, including a march starting at Thomas Paine Plaza at 10 AM on October 21. Read the call to action here.. They also have set up a bail fund that you can donate to for anyone who gets arrested protesting the IACP. The Unist'ot'en camp in so-called British Columbia could use your help building houses in the path of planned pipelines. Support the Cascadia Forest Defenders website who are fighting against the logging of 2,500 acres of the Willamette National Forest. Fund an internationalist anti-fascist's return from fighting in Rojava. You can find the DropJ20 drop-the-charges call-in campaign here. Other anarchist podcast episodes mentioned in this Hotwire: Episodes 36 and 39 of The Ex-Worker delve deep into the revolution in Rojava. Hotwire #8 describes the police-facilitated photo-op that fascists enjoyed in Charlottesville last week. IGDcast's interview with Frank Lopez about Mutual Aid Disaster Relief and Puerto Rico. While not anarchist by any stretch of the imagination, The Gun Show episode of More Perfect has some good history on the origins of gun control as a tool for controlling black rebellion. CrimethInc. essays mentioned in this Hotwire: The Poetry of Flames: French Tales of Arson 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 info@certaindays.org. Corrections & clarifications: In Hotwire #7 we stated that the Las Vegas shooting was the deadliest mass-shooting since the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. However, we discovered at least one other in the time since then. In 1898, white supremacists seized the city of Wilmington, North Carolina and massacred at least 60 black folks. Political prisoner support: Supporters of the anti-police brutality activist Reverend Joy Powell have organized a phone blast in support. Political Prisoner Seth Hayes is in urgent need of medical attention. His supporters are asking people to call the supervisor at Sullivan Correctional to demand that he be taken to Albany Medical Center as soon as possible. You can write Reverend Joy Powell at… Reverend Joy Powell 07G0632 Bedford Hills Correctional Facility P.O. Box 1000 Bedford Hills, NY 10507–2499 Here is the October 2017 Political Prisoner Birthday Poster, which you can use to organize a letter writing night. For a good introduction to writing prisoners, check out this guide from New York City Anarchist Black Cross. Political prisoner birthdays: Jalil Muntaqim (Anthony Jalil Bottom) #77-A–4283 Sullivan Correctional Facility Post Office Box 116 Fallsburg, New York 12733–0116 Address envelope to Anthony Bottom, address card to Jalil {October 18}  

This week we bring you a slew of reports from anti-Columbus Day actions across so-called North America. We also fill you in on an inspiring prison uprising that took over McCormick prison in South Carolina. Prisoners even got on the roof! The political crisis in Catalonia continues, this week with violent fascist and pro-Spanish reaction. White supremacists descended on Charlottesville again this weekend, and there are some upcoming calls to anti-fascist action in the south, so listen until the end. Plus, we got all of our regular features like political prisoner birthdays, announcements for upcoming anarchist book fairs, and the repression roundup. {October 11, 2017}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:53} #FuckColumbusDay {6:40} Charlottesville Anti-Fascism Interview {12:20} The Opioid Crisis and White Despair {15:58} Repression Roundup {20:55} Prisoner Birthdays {24:55} Next Week's News {25:47} Upcoming anarchist book fairs: The sixth annual anarchist book and propaganda gathering in Santiago, Chile will take place on October 14 and 15. The Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair takes place October 28 and 29 at Leimert Park Plaza. The London Anarchist Bookfair also takes place on Saturday, October 28 at Park View School. Alerta! Alerta! Anti-fascists in Florida are calling for anti-racists to oppose Richard Spencer, who will speak at the University of Florida in Gainesville on October 19. Unicorn Riot reports that up to half a million dollars may be spent on security for Spencer's event, even though no one at the University of Florida has invited him to speak. 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 Puerto Rico: Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: here and here. Mexico: Oaxaca Earthquake Autonomous Solidarity Campaign #FuckColumbusDay actions reportback found here. A must-read for this year's Columbus Day is this article by Indigenous Action Media about the limitations of Indigenous People's Day. Also check out the essay Resistance is Disaster Relief, published on Columbus Day by Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. Action items and reportback from the anti-fascists who opposed the white nationalist photo-op in Charlottesville, VA this weekend. Go here to donate to the bail and legal fund for those arrested in St. Louis after the no-guilty verdict for killer cop Jason Stockley. Go here for the bail fund for those arrested protesting the murder of queer anarchist Scout Schultz. We mention the new episode of Submedia's excellent show Trouble. This month's episode is on counter-insurgency. Submedia does great work, so throw them some taco money while they are fundraising this month. There's a call to disrupt the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia from October 21 to 24, including a march starting at Thomas Paine Plaza at 10 AM on October 21. Read the call to action here.. You can find the DropJ20 drop-the-charges call-in campaign here. Freshet Collective is organizing legal support for the nearly 400 cases are still pending from Standing Rock. Natasha Lennard covers how 6 of the cases are nearly unprecedented federal charges faced by native activists. Other anarchist podcast episodes mentioned in this Hotwire: Episode 32 of The Ex-Worker, titled “White Supremacy and Capitalism, From 1492 to Ferguson.” Ex-Worker episode #56 about Charlottesville. Hotwire #4 has an interview with an anarchist DREAMer about how to support undocumented folks. Hotwire #5 covers the fatal police shooting of Scout Schultz, a queer anarchist Georgia Tech student. IGDcast's Audio Report From CVille: Media & Police Facilitate Nazi Photo Op. CrimethInc. essays mentioned in this Hotwire: How and Why to Organize Your Own Copwatch Group Green Scared? Preliminary Lessons of the Green Scare Catalunya: Facing Two Bad Options, Choose the Third. On the Showdown between Spain and Catalunya Democracy, Red in Tooth and Claw. On the Catalan Referendum: The Old State, a New State, or No State at All? From 15M to Podemos: The Regeneration of Spanish Democracy and the Maligned Promise of Chaos The Opioid Crisis: White Despair and the Scapegoating of People of Color Scout Schultz: Remembering Means Fighting. Mourning a Queer Activist and Anarchist Murdered by the Police The 2018 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar is now available for bulk pre-orders. 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 info@certaindays.org. Video of the two baby piglets freed by Direct Action Everywhere this past summer. Corrections & clarifications: In our reporting on the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement's march in Gothenburg last week, we were ignorant of some pretty important details. Namely, the fact that they specifically chose to march on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur and that their originally proposed march route was chosen to pass by a synagogue, a clear act of intimidation, if not staging for an outright attack. Anti-Semitism is growing along with right-wing nationalism, and the targeting of Jewish sites and symbols is something anarchists should not ignore—not in the least because of the rich history of Jewish anarchism and anti-fascism! Check out this delightfully cheeky book review for a brief introduction to the history of Jewish anarchism. Here is the October 2017 Political Prisoner Birthday Poster, which you can use to organize a letter writing night. For a good introduction to writing prisoners, check out this guide from New York City Anarchist Black Cross. Political prisoner birthdays: Robert Seth Hayes #74-A–2280 Sullivan Correctional Facility Post Office Box 116 Fallsburg, New York 12733–0116 {October 15} Jermaine Parker #1185800 MECC 18701 Old Highway 66 Pacific, MO 63069 {October 15}      

This week we go on a bunch of rants. We rant about why no state is better than a new state in Catalonia. We rant about why anti-fascists should not allow the state to position itself as the principal force protecting people from Nazi violence. We rant about how mutual aid and community relief must mean opposition to capitalism and a redistribution of wealth. Rant rant rant! Rah rah rah! {October 4, 2017}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:42} Does Catalonian freedom mean a new state, or no state? {7:55} Is fascist violence terrorism, or just plain old fascism? {14:20} Mutual aid means abolishing capitalism {18:57} Repression Roundup {24:45} Anarchist Podcast Jingles {27:47} Prisoner Birthdays {29:42} Next Week's News {31:05} Upcoming anarchist bookfairs: The sixth annual anarchist book and propaganda gathering in Santiago, Chile will take place on October 14 and 15. Grassroots 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 Puerto Rico: Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Mexico: Oaxaca Earthquake Autonomous Solidarity Campaign Go here. to donate to the bail and legal fund for those arrested in St. Louis after the no-guilty verdict for killer cop Jason Stockley. The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement's call to deface Columbus Day on October 9 has a dope video here. We mention the new episode of Submedia's excellent show Trouble. This month's episode is on counter-insurgency. Submedia does great work, so throw them some taco money while they are fundraising this month. There's a call to disrupt the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia from October 21 to 24., including a march starting at Thomas Paine Plaza at 10 AM on October 21. Read the call to action here.. Alerta! Alerta! Anti-fascists in Florida are calling for anti-racists to oppose Richard Spencer, who will speak at the University of Florida in Gainesville on October 19. You can find the DropJ20 drop-the-charges call-in campaign here. Donate to the Counter Repression Spokes Ride to support the nearly 200 people facing 8 or more felonies each after being mass-arrested at protests of the presidential inauguration. Keep up with the latest at defendj20resistance.org. Consider coming down to DC to pack the courtroom during the first trial at the end of November 2017. And don't forget to write a letter to political prisoner Dane Powell, the first of the J20 defendants to serve time. He recently wrote a call to moibilize support for the remaining 194 J20 defendants. Write Dane a letter: Dane Powell BOP Register number 82015007 Federal Correctional Institution – Low PO Box 1031 Colman, Florida 33521 Learn more about the difficult situation anarchists in Belarus are in through Anarchist Black Cross Belarus. Freshet Collective is organizing legal support for the 414 cases are still pending from Standing Rock. Natasha Lennard covers how 6 of the cases are nearly unprecedented federal charges faced by native activists. Go here to find out about the anti-nuclear camp in Bure, France happening on October 21 and 22. The video and reportback from the anarchist disruption of a fundamentalist Christian conference in Australia. Friends and family Black Panther Party political prisoner Herman Bell are asking for people to email the New York Department of Corrections after Herman was viciously beaten by guards. Comrade Malik is facing retaliation from prison staff for prisoner organizing, and is asking supporters to email the Texas Ombudsman to prevent any further action being taken against him. Video of badgers being liberated in the UK! ICYMI: So many police were concentrated in Catalonia that in Madrid, 86 migrants took advantage of the shortage of police and escaped from an immigrant detention center. As we go to press, 47 of them are still free! Other anarchist podcast episodes mentioned in this Hotwire: Ex-Worker episode #56 about Charlottesville. Hotwire #3 has an interview with an anarchist DREAMer about how to support undocumented folks. The anarchist podcast Bilda Kedjor (break the chains) out of Sweden has great stuff! Their podcast is in Swedish, but the interviews are in English. Definitely worth a listen. CrimethInc. essays mentioned in this Hotwire: Anarchists on the Catalan Referendum: Three Perspectives from the Streets The Rise of Neo-Fascism in Germany: Alternative für Deutschland Enters the Parliament After the Crest: What to Do while the Dust Is Settling Get your pre-orders in now for the 2018 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar. 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. Single copies of the calendar will be available for purchase in a few weeks. Any questions can be sent to info@certaindays.org. Political prisoner birthdays: (For a good introduction to writing prisoners, check out this guide from New York City Anarchist Black Cross.) Jamil Al-Amin #99974–555 USP Tuscon Post Office Box 24550 Tuscon, Arizona 85734 {October 4} David Gilbert #83-A–6158 Wende Correctional Facility 3040 Wende Road Alden, New York 14004–1187 {October 6} Michael Davis Africa #AM–4973 SCI Graterford Post Office Box 244 Graterford, Pennsylvania 19426–0244 {October 6} Meral Smith* #16–024 Saguaro Correctional Center 1252 East Arica Road Eloy, Arizona 85131 *Address letter to Malik (Smith) {October 8}    

This week we have a ton of headlines about rebellion and cooperation, resistance and mutual aid, from all over the world. Protests in St. Louis continue into their second week after the not guilty verdict for a white cop who viciously murdered Anthony Lamar Smith, a young black father. We weigh in on the chatter about whether the NFL #TakeAKnee protests are about white supremacy or the first amendment. Meanwhile, the so-called “free speech week” hosted by far-right students in Berkeley has utterly failed. The mutual aid relief efforts we've covered in Texas and Florida still need support, as well as in Mexico and Puerto Rico after the earthquakes and hurricanes there. {September 27, 2017}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {2:28} Repression Roundup {22:15} Anarchist Podcast Jingles {25:18} Prisoner Birthdays {26:59} Next Week's News {28:35} Upcoming anarchist book fairs: The fourth annual Radical Book Fair in Gothenburg, Sweden from September 28 to October 1. That same weekend, the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement will try to march through Gothenburg. Read the anti-fascist call to action here. The sixth annual anarchist book and propaganda gathering in Santiago, Chile will take place on October 14 and 15. Grassroots relief efforts: Florida: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Texas: Bayou Action Street Health, Greater Houston Grassroots Relief, Austin Common Ground, the Black Women's Defense League, Redneck Revolt Houston, West Street Response Team, Houston Food Not Bombs Puerto Rico: Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund Get your pre-orders in now for the 2018 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar. 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. Single copies of the calendar will be available for purchase in a few weeks. Any questions can be sent to info@certaindays.org. For current information on how to support folks still facing charges from No Dakota Access Pipeline actions at Standing Rock, visit FreshetCollective.org to find out how to help and for their comprehensive update on NoDAPL cases. It's also worth reading this great piece by Natasha Lennard on the courtroom battles that Water Protectors are now facing. Cop cars on fire in France. Cop cars getting crushed in Illinois. Go here. to donate to the bail and legal fund for those arrested in St. Louis after the no-guilty verdict for killer cop Jason Stockley. For an in-depth anarchist critique of “free speech,” check out the essay This Is Not A Dialogue. The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement's call to deface Columbus Day on October 9 has a dope video here. We mention the upcoming new episode of Submedia's excellent show Trouble. This month's episode is on counter-insurgency. Submedia does great work, so throw them some taco money while they are fundraising this month. From Submedia: “The straw that finally broke the camel's back was when alt-right shitlords targeted us last month with a mass snitching campaign, and successfully got Paypal to cancel our account – wiping out, in the push of a button, a monthly sustainer base that had taken us ten years to build up. The time has come to #BringBackStim and unleash him full-force on these fucks. We want to give him a new show – a weekly digital pulpit where he can expose and ruthlessly antagonize far-right personalities, while also covering topical news segments from an anarchist lens. But in order to do that, we need to grow our collective so that we can handle the increased workload. And in order to do that, we need your support.” If you're near Vancouver, BC, there's a building materials supply drive going on until October to support the Secwepemc people's tiny homes blockade of the proposed Kinder Morgan TransMountain tar sands pipeline. The Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons is going international with a UK roadshow this fall, from September 28 to October 6. There's a call to disrupt the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia from October 21st to the 24th. Read the call to action here.. Donate to the Counter Repression Spokes Ride to support the nearly 200 people facing 8 or more felonies each after being mass-arrested at protests of the presidential inauguration. Keep up with the latest at defendj20resistance.org. Consider coming down to DC to pack the courtroom during the first trial at the end of November 2017. You can also find action items at DropJ20.org. And don't forget to write a letter to political prisoner Dane Powell, the first of the J20 defendants to serve time. He recently wrote a letter to all of us. This video shows Dane's courage on the streets that day. Write Dane a letter: Dane Powell BOP Register number 82015007 Federal Correctional Institution – Low PO Box 1031 Colman, Florida 33521 Ex-Worker podcast episodes mentioned in this Hotwire: #37 is all about the Hambacher forest occupation. #41 has an in-depth interview with an anarchist from the anti-Fenix anti-repression crew in the Czech Republic. #17 has an in-depth interview with an anarchist supporter of King J from the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation. Hotwires #3 and #4 have interviews with anarchists doing autonomous relief work in Texas and Florida, respectively. The Final Straw's interview with Yellow Hammer Alternative, an Alabama-based far-left group doing mutual aid support along the Gulf Coast. The Final Straw's interview on the Catalonian independence referendum on October 1. For a good introduction to writing prisoners, check out this guide from New York City Anarchist Black Cross. Political prisoner birthdays: Brian McCarvill #11037967 Snake River CI 777 Stanton Blvd Ontario, OR 97914–8335 {September 27th} Jorge P. Cornell #28152–057 FCI Petersburg Medium P.O. Box 1000 Petersburg, VA 23804 {September 29} Joshua Stafford* #57976–060 USP McCreary Post Office Box 3000 Pine Knot, Kentucky 42635 *Please address card/letter to Skelly, envelope to Joshua Stafford {October 3rd} Here is this month's Political Prisoner Birthday Calendar.      

This week we speak with two folks who've been active on the street of St. Louis since white ex-cop Jason Stockley was let off for the murder of black father Anthony Lamar Smith. We also remember Scout Schultz, a 21-year-old queer student organizer killed on Saturday by Georgia Tech police. There's lots of reports from anti-fascist actions, with a particularly woop-worthy one from the Juggalo March this past weekend in Washington, D.C. At the end we announce some anarchist book fairs and upcoming actions against the alt-right in Berkeley and neo-nazis in Sweden. {September 20, 2017}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:55} Feature: Report from the streets of St. Louis after the Stockley verdict {12:13} Repression Roundup {23:25} Prisoner Birthdays {27:35} Next Week's News {29:00} Upcoming anarchist bookfairs: The Radical Book Fair pavillion at the Baltimore Book Festival September 22–24. The Houston Anarchist Book Fair on September 24 located at MECA, 1900 Kane St., Houston, Texas. The fourth annual Radical Book Fair in Gothenburg, Sweden from September 28 to October 1. That same weekend, the neo-nazi Nordic Resistance Movement will try to march through Gothenburg. Read the anti-fascist call to action here. The alt-right's so-called “free speech” week begins Monday at UC Berkeley. In response, there are actions planned against white supremacy and nationalism. Saturday, September 23: March Against White Supremacy Noon at 63rd and Adeline in Berkeley Monday, September 25: Rally Against White Supremacy Noon at Crescent Lawn The FBI has been visiting anarchists and others lately in North Carolina. There's not better time than the present to brush up on what to do if the FBI approaches you to talk, or even if the police knock on your door. Print out this handy .PDF poster and hang it by your front door so you'll have an easy reference in the case of an unwanted visitor from the state. Get your pre-orders in now for the 2018 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar. 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. Go here. to donate to the bail and legal fund for those arrested in St. Louis after the no-guilty verdict for killer cop Jason Stockley. Bail funds are also needed for people arrested at a memorial march for Scout Schultz, the 21-year-old queer student organizer killed by Georgia Tech police. We mention Submedia's excellent show Trouble, which has an upcoming episode this month on counter-insurgency. They do great work, so throw them some taco money while they are fundraising this month. From Submedia: “After years of suffering the Stimulator's taco farts in silence, we'd reached our limits. Plus, we wanted to shift gears and embark on an ambitious new project – a monthly documentary series called Trouble, intended to be screened collectively as a tool to help spark critical conversations around local organizing. So when we pitched the idea to Stim and he refused to go along with this new direction, we decided he had to go. Well… turns out we fucked up. It's not that we regret launching Trouble, or have any plans to stop making new episodes. Far from it. We've received tons of positive feedback on the project, and are stoked to see trouble-makers have started dozens of screening collectives in cities across the world. What we didn't realize was exactly how much work goes into producing a 30 minute interview-driven documentary every month, and how little time that would leave us for our other projects. So, suffice to say… we've been reconsidering our decision for some time now. But the straw that finally broke the camel's back was when alt-right shitlords targeted us last month with a mass snitching campaign, and successfully got Paypal to cancel our account – wiping out, in the push of a button, a monthly sustainer base that had taken us ten years to build up. The time has come to #BringBackStim and unleash him full-force on these fucks. We want to give him a new show – a weekly digital pulpit where he can expose and ruthlessly antagonize far-right personalities, while also covering topical news segments from an anarchist lens. But in order to do that, we need to grow our collective so that we can handle the increased workload. And in order to do that, we need your support.” If you're near Vancouver, BC, there's a building materials supply drive going on until October to support the Secwepemc people's tiny homes blockade of the proposed Kinder Morgan TransMountain tar sands pipeline. Here is a Unicorn Riot livestream of direct action against the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline in Wisconsin, in which someone locked down to a flipped over car to halt construction. The Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons is going international with a UK roadshow this fall, from September 28 to October 6. There's a call to disrupt the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia from October 21st to the 24th. Read the call to action here.. A bunch of calls to support political prisoners were made last week, but are still needed: 69 year old Black Panther Party political prisoner Herman Bell was (assaulted by guards](https://itsgoingdown.org/political-prisoner-herman-bell-assaulted-guards/). Please write Herman a get-well card at his new address: Herman Bell #79-C–0262 Five Points Correctional Facility P.O. Box 119 Romulus, N.Y. 14541​ Anarchist, disabled, latinx prisoner Coyote Acabo is in need of fundraising and letters. Please write him at: Coyote Acabo #316348 YJC Yakima Co. Dept. Corrections 111 N Front Street Yakima WA 98901 Ramsey Orta is coming up on one year of incarceration after the NYPD retaliated against him for filming Eric Garner's death in 2014. Please send Ramsey some letters to let him know we have his back. You can use this online form or his inmate address: Ramsey Orta, 16A4200 ​ Franklin Correctional Facility P.O. Box 10 Malone, New York 12953–0010 We're two months out from the first trials in the unprecedented J20 case. There are various ways to support the nearly 200 people facing 8 or more felonies each after being mass-arrested at protests of the presidential inauguration. Keep up with the latest at defendj20resistance.org. Consider coming down to DC to pack the courtroom during the first trial at the end of November 2017. You can also find action items at DropJ20.org. And don't forget to write a letter to political prisoner Dane Powell, the first of the J20 defendants to serve time. This video shows Dane's courage on the streets that day. Write Dane a letter: Dane Powell BOP Register number 82015007 Federal Correctional Institution - Low PO Box 1031 Colman, Florida 33521 {September 7} For a good introduction to writing prisoners, check out this guide from New York City Anarchist Black Cross. Political prisoner birthdays: Steven Martin #01141003 ERDCC 2727 Highway K. Bonne Terre, MO 63628 {September 22nd} Greg Curry #213–159 Ohio State Penitentiary 878 Coitsville-Hubbard Rd Youngstown OH 44505–4635 {September 26th} Here is this month's Political Prisoner Birthday Calendar.    

This week we speak with Dezeray, an anarchist involved in Mutual Aid Disaster Relief organizing in the wake of Hurricane Irma. Next, we interview Sam, an anarchist DACA recipient, about undocumented youth resistance. A number of political prisoners are in urgent need of support. Victorious striking workers show that direct action gets the goods. We remember Attica, the September 11 military coup in Chile, and Charlottesville. At the end we announce some anarchist book fairs and the Juggalo March on Washington. {September 13, 2017}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:25} Feature: Autonomous relief after Hurricane Harvey {7:25} Interview with an anarchist DACA recipient {15:30} Repression Roundup {22:55} Prisoner Birthdays {26:55} Next Week's News {28:30} We interview an anarchist in Florida with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. You can get the latest updates on autonomously organized relief in the wake of Hurricane Irma from their website and their facebook page. No Walls No Borders is also organizing in Florida after Irma. If you're undocumented and want to get involved in DREAMer activism, check out the United We Dream site to find a group near you. Back in February, CrimethInc. published a text titled “What Would it Take to Stop the Raids?” that seems even more pressing now that the president has announced the end of DACA. We also have new anti-border stickers and posters you can print or order, and a new book titled “No Wall They Can Build,” which charts 10 years of migrant-solidarity work along the US-Mexico border. Upcoming anarchist bookfairs: The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair in Oakland, CA on September 16 at Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, California 94609. The Radical Book Fair pavillion at the Baltimore Book Festival September 22–24. The Houston Anarchist Book Fair on September 24 located at MECA, 1900 Kane St., Houston, Texas. The Insane Clown Posse released a useful promo for what to expect at the Juggalo March on Washington this Saturday, September 16. The promo complains about Juggalos not being able to join the military, which might turn some anarchists and radicals off from showing solidarity. The IWW's General Defense Committee and Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee's joint statement supporting the march argues that we should support the anti-repression efforts of Juggalos even though not every juggalo's politics will be perfectly in line with anarchism. Join a Running Down the Walls 5K fundraiser on September 17. Find out about runs near you here. Get your pre-orders in now for the 2018 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar. 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. There's a call to disrupt the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia from October 21st to the 24th. Read the call to action here. Past Ex-Worker episodes mentioned in this Hotwire: #29: Anarchism in Chile, Part I: From Popular Power to Social War #30: Anarchism in Chile, Part II #50: The History and Future of Prison Strikes and Solidarity #58: Not Your Grandparents' Antifascism We also mention The Chicago Conspiracy documentary about contemporary revolt in Chile and the recent interview with a Chilean anarchist that we published for the anniversary of September 11. For more anarchist podcasts, check out the excellent weekly anarchist radio show The Final Straw to hear anarchist prisoner Sean Swain's irreverent and lively radio productions. You can find out about a whole bunch of other anarchist podcasts through the new anarchist podcast network Channel Zero. Check out these reflections on last year's National Prison Strike, organized in large part by the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee of the IWW. We mention that almost 100,000 prisoners in Florida were not evacuated and left to the mercy of Hurricane Irma. Supporters organized a phone zap for September 9, but it's probably still a good idea to keep the pressure on and let the prison staff know that we are monitoring their inaction and that we stand with our incarcerated brothers and sisters on the inside. A similar phone zap was organized for prisoners outside of Houston after Hurricane Harvey, and it's probably still a good idea to keep the pressure on there as well. A bunch of calls to support political prisoners have been made this week: 69 year old Black Panther Party political prisoner Herman Bell was (assaulted by guards](https://itsgoingdown.org/political-prisoner-herman-bell-assaulted-guards/). Please write Herman a get-well card at his new address: Herman Bell #79-C–0262 Five Points Correctional Facility P.O. Box 119 Romulus, N.Y. 14541​ Anarchist, disabled, latinx prisoner Coyote Acabo is in need of fundraising and letters. Please write him at: Coyote Acabo #316348 YJC Yakima Co. Dept. Corrections 111 N Front Street Yakima WA 98901 Ramsey Orta is coming up on one year of incarceration after the NYPD retaliated against him for filming Eric Garner's death in 2014. Please send Ramsey some letters to let him know we have his back. You can use this online form or his inmate address: Ramsey Orta, 16A4200 ​ Franklin Correctional Facility P.O. Box 10 Malone, New York 12953–0010 We mention Dane Powell's courage on the streets of DC during Trump's inauguration. This video spells it out. 196 of Dane's codefendants are still pending trial, check out DefendJ20Resistance.org to learn more. For a good introduction to writing prisoners, check out this guide from New York City Anarchist Black Cross. Political prisoner birthdays: Sean Swain #243–205 Warren CI P.O. Box 120 Lebanon, Ohio 45036 {September 12} Leonard Peltier #89637–132 USP Coleman I Post Office Box 1033 Coleman, Florida 33521 {September 12} Here is this month's Political Prisoner Birthday Calendar.  

​Page and Monica sit with their dear friend, researcher, writer, advocate, activist, and organizer, Andrea Ritchie, to talk about her brand new book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Placing stories of individual women—such as Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall—in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, this book documents the evolution of movements centering women's experiences of policing, and demands a radical rethinking of our visions of safety—and the means we devote to achieving it.

Seeing the unseen. We talk about the often-invisible work that goes into emotional labor with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and hear from Andrea Ritchie, the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Plus: new music from artist Julia Weldon. 

Monica and Page sit down with Joey Mogul to talk about Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, a book that she co-wrote with Andrea Ritchie and Kay Whitlock in 2011. Joey is an attorney with the People's Law Office, initiated and co-founded Chicago Torture Justice Memorials and represented Jon Burge torture survivors demanding reparations from the city of Chicago, and won! Drawing on years of research, on-the-ground activism, and legal advocacy, their book examines queer & trans historical experiences-as “suspects,” defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime, and unpacks queer criminal archetypes-like “gleeful gay killers,” “lethal lesbians,” “disease spreaders,” and “deceptive gender benders“-to illustrate the punishment of queer expression, regardless of whether a crime was ever committed. And because it's Pride season, we also got into some conversation around Joey's amazing direct action experiences with disrupting Chicago Pride in the 90's with Queer to the Left, so basically, you should tune in now!

An evening of conversation with local and national voices on police violence in Springfield, MA and beyond, featuring Kissa Owens (mother of Delano Walker), Andrea Ritchie (attorney, writer, Soros Justice Fellow), ShaeShae Quest (Out Now), and Rhonda Y. Williams (scholar and community organizer). Presented by the University of Massachusetts Amherst History Department's 2016-2017 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series, Out Now, Project Operation Change and Springfield Technical Community College. October 26, 2016. Image Credit: "Freedom" by Ronnie Goodman, www.ronniegoodman.com

ASPIRE member, Fiona. Photo by Robynn Takayama   Last Thursday in San Francisco, undocumented immigrants and their supporters sat down in front of a deportation bus.  It was part of an action to shut down Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.  They managed to delay the bus for several hours, and 26 people were arrested.  Apex Contributor Marie Choi talks with May Liang, an organizer with Asian Students Promoting Immigrant Rights Through Education (ASPIRE). WBAI's Asia Pacific Forum covered the exciting and historic community-led victories against Stop & Frisk and other racial profiling and oppressive practices by the New York PD. You'll hear the voices of Andrea Ritchie of Streetwise & Safe, Jennifer Ching of Queens Legal Services and Lynly Egyes of the Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center – all based in New York.   Apex Contributor Ellen Choy brought the story to Apex.  It was produced by Asia Pacific Forum's Michelle Chen. Finally, should residents be able to call the shots about how their tax dollars are spent?  In Oakland, the Community Democracy Project is collecting signatures for a ballot measure that would do just that.  Modeled on the democratic budgeting practices of Puerto Allegre, Brazil and Medellin, Colombia. We talk with Jiwon Chung and Alexa Chua to learn more about how democratic budgeting would work. Karl Jagbandhansingh hosts.   The post APEX Express – October 24, 2013 appeared first on KPFA.