Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/updates-29-dec-2020.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us know
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Kersplebedeb: Interview with the Certain Days collective
If you haven’t gotten your calendar yet, you’d better hurry! We’re down to our last box and the price has dropped to $15 CAD. Get yours before they’re gone! What is the Certain Days Calendar? The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Dec. 15, 2020
Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/updates-15-dec-2020.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us know
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Prison Covid Newsletter (vol 1, no 11), Dec. 2020
The Prison Covid-19 Information Project provides COVID-19 news and resources for prisoners and their families and loved ones on the outside. Their latest newsletter is here.
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Dec. 1, 2020
NOTE: If you send the updates to Jeremy Hammond, please stop, as he has been released to a halfway house! If you send the updates to Doug Wright, his address has changed: Douglas Wright #57973-060 USP Florence – High Post Office Box 7000 Florence, Colorado 81226 Here’s the latest compilation
Continue readingKersplebedeb: #RadicalDecember + Online Double Book Launch (Dec. 5)
#RadicalDecember events are happening all this month! Join us on Saturday, December 5th, 2020 at 7 pm EST for a virtual book launch — Devin Zane Shaw is the author of The Philosophy of Antifascism. Joshua Moufawad-Paul is the author of Demarcation and Demystification. Join our event to discuss antifascism and radical
Continue readingKersplebedeb: It’s time for Hong Kong to reckon with its far-right (reposted from lausan.hk)
This article was translated by the wonderful Lausan collective. You can find it and many other articles offering “decolonial left perspectives on Hong Kong” here. It’s time for Hong Kong to reckon with its far-right That the 2019 movement fostered the rise of the far-right requires serious collective examination for
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Nov. 17, 2020
NOTE: If you send the updates to Jay Chase, please stop, as he has been released! Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/updates-17-nov-2020.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Confronting Medical Colonialism: “Fighting for a Hand to Hold” Online Speaking Tour
Samir Shaheen-Hussain, author of Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Violence against Indigenous Children in Canada (25% off with coupon code THEKIDSAREALRIGHT at leftwingbooks.net), will be doing several online speaking events this month. For a complete list of future events, which will be updated as more are confirmed,
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Paranoia as Aesthetic – Kristian Williams (Three Way Fight)
Conspiracy theorists at Vancouver anti-lockdown protest This article is re-posted from Three Way Fight. Antifa had quite a summer: First, jetting around the country, stoking unrest and attacking police in dozens of cities simultaneously; then, moving by tour bus through the countryside to burn and loot small towns, only to
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Nov. 3, 2020
NOTE: If you send the updates to Kojo Bomani Sababu, his address has changed as USP Canaan has shifted to a privatized mail service: Kojo Bomani Sababu* #39384-066 USP Canaan Smart Communications Post Office Box 30 Pinellas Park, Florida 33781 *Address envelope to Grailing Brown. Here’s the latest compilation of
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Oct 31: Demonstration in Solidarity with Dollarama Warehouse Workers
DOLLARAMA WAREHOUSE WORKER SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION We are not temps! We are essential! Join the demonstration in front of a Dollarama store to fight for: PERMANENT JOBS FOR ESSENTIAL WORKERS! Saturday October 31st, 1pm to 3pm Next to Dollarama store 7017 St Hubert street-South of Jean-Talon (Jean-Talon metro) Since the beginning
Continue readingKersplebedeb: “Decisively breaking with both worker elite mythology and male leftism”: An Interview with Bromma
Bromma is the author of Exodus and Reconstruction: Working-Class Women at the Heart of Globalization, The Worker Elite: Notes on the “Labor Aristocracy”, and a contributor to Full Body Scan: Imperialism Today and Ctrl-Alt-Delete: An Antifascist Report on the Alternative Right. More of his writings on kersplebedeb.com are available here.
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Oct. 20, 2020
PDF: NYC Anarchist Black Cross Political Prisoner/Prisoner of War updates, Oct. 20, 2020. One part of NYC ABC‘s every-other-week Political Prisoner Letter-Writing event is presenting updates and announcements. These typically relate to or are written by PPs and/or POWs. Since February 2011, they’ve been printing and mailing hard copies of
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Settler forgetting in Saulnierville: the Sipekne’katik Mi’kmaw fishery as reminder
By Mercedes Peters One of the first things you’re taught when you’re training to be a historian in Canada is that Canadians have a memory problem. It can be a little jarring to some. This reality didn’t come as much of a shock to my system, though, because as a
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Solidarity Action Day with 1492 Landback Lane and All Indigenous-Led Land Defending Demonstrations Across Turtle Island
Official Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1049347945523775/ SOLIDARITY ACTION DAY WITH 1492 LANDBACK LANE AND ALL INDIGENOUS-LED LAND DEFENDING DEMONSTRATIONS ACROSS TURTLE ISLAND Where ? Wolf Park (St-Urbain x Maisonneuve) When ? October 9th, from 1-7pm What ? As part of the Day of Action called by Land Defenders at Six Nations a
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Joyce Echaquan’s treatment wasn’t an isolated incident
Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman died at Joliette hospital after she posted a video of slurs said by staff right before her death. This Op-Ed appeared in the Montreal Gazette on September 30th, 2020. Samir Shaheen-Hussain published Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Orisanmi Burton on the Revolutionaries Organizing Inside Attica Before the Rebellion
From the “Prison Activism and the Organizing Tradition” panel at the Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration Conference, Dec 5th, 2019. The panel also featured Dan Berger, Steven “Stevie” Wilson, Zoharah Simmons, Darren Mack, and Jessica Wilkerson. The full transcript from this and other sessions available at https://mumiconference.com/transcripts/ Orisanmi Burton: Free Leonard Peltier.
Continue readingKersplebedeb: How Oregon’s GOP governor teamed up with hippies to throw a festival and prevent clashes in the streets
Drugs, sex, rock ‘n’ roll and Republican politics converged in an Oregon forest in the summer of 1970 to pull off an unlikely scheme. It was a tense time in America. Protests across the nation were ending in bloodshed, including in downtown Portland. In an unlikely partnership, Oregon’s Republican governor
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