This episode offers an audio version of "Iran: An Uprising Besieged from Within and Without," discussing the uprising that broke out across Iran on December 28, 2025, triggered by economic distress and escalating to call for the toppling of the government. It includes three analyses exploring the tensions within the uprising between grassroots movements and monarchist groups courting the support of the United States and Israel.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction {0:41}
• Report on the Current Wave of Protests in Iran {2:57}
• Iran Protests Amid a Siege by Internal and External Enemies: A Report on the Recent Mass Uprising {6:53}
• I. The Fifth Uprising since 2017 {8:11}
• II. An Uprising Besieged by External and Internal Threats {10:51}
• III. The Spread of the Revolt {16:52}
• IV. The Geography of the Revolt {19:06}
• V. The Impact of the Twelve-Day War {22:46}
• VI. The Contradictions {28:11}
• VII. The Horizon {32:52}

• The View from Syria {38:45}

• This episode offers an audio version of "Iran: An Uprising Besieged from Within and Without," published by CrimethInc. on January 7, 2026. The online version includes footnotes and hyperlinks offering more information.

• Thanks to Ayman Makarem of From The Periphery media collective for reading and recording this episode.

• To learn more about previous waves of resistance in Iran, you could start with "Revolt in Iran," discussing the revolt that began on September 16, 2022, and "Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom)—The Genealogy of a Slogan," exploring the background of that movement.

• For deeper background, you could read "There Is an Infinite Amount of Hope… but Not for Us," an interview publishing in 2020 discussing the pandemic, economic crisis, repression, and resistance in Iran.

• To learn more about the conditions that ethnic minorities experience in Iran, read Precarious Work Means Precarious Life, discussing the Rajaee Port Disaster and what it shoes about the situation confronting Baluch ethnic minorities.

• To understand how Iranians who oppose both the Islamic Republic government of Iran and the genocidal project represented by Israeli Zionism and US foreign policy in the region, read "Women, Life, Freedom" against the War and Against Apartheid and Tyranny.

This episode offers an audio version of "Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression," exploring the implications of Donald Trump's executive order designating "Antifa" as "a major terrorist organization" and how we can prepare our communities to endure whatever comes next. It also includes an audio version of "When the Police Knock on Your Door: Your Rights and Options."

• Introduction {0:40}
• Don't be intimidated {5:53}
• Make the most of your strengths {7:42}
• Prepare for federal visits and raids {9:12}
• Be transparent about repression {10:33}
• Redundancy means resilience {11:18}
• Coordinate to support each other {12:26}
• Discredit the police and courts {13:28}
• Fracture the political class {15:05}
• Take the offensive{17:02}
• Refuse to divide {17:47}
• When the police knock on your door {18:40}

• This episode offers an audio version of "Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression," published by CrimethInc. on September 18, 2025, and "When the Police Knock on Your Door: Your Rights and Options," published by CrimethInc. on August 24, 2017. The online versions include a variety of footnotes and hyperlinks offering more information.

• Thanks to Margaret Killjoy of Strangers in a Tangled Wildnernessfor reading this episode.

• To learn more about why avoiding confrontation is rarely the best way to deal with rising authoritarianism, read "It's Safer in the Front: Taking the Offensive against Tyranny." You could also listen to it here.

• To learn more about security culture, consult our classic guide on the subject. You can download and print out an introductory poster about security culture here.

• To learn more about your rights in interactions with law enforcement officials, read "If an Agent Knocks" by the Center for Constitutional Rights, "You Have the Right to Remain Silent" by the National Lawyers Guild, and "If the FBI Approaches You to Become an Informant" by CrimethInc. You can read narratives from activists who endured grand jury subpoenas in a variety of ways here.

• For more background on the use of racketeering charges against defendants in the Stop Cop City RICO case, you could read this introduction and this update. You can learn about how the J20 defendants beat their charges here.

• To learn about how to strategize for and carry out direct action, begin with this step-by-step guide. You can also read "A Demonstrator's Guide to Operational Security."

This episode offers an audio version of "Don't Stop: Continuing the Fight Against Cop City", published on December 12th. It traces the activities of the movement to Stop Cop City and defend the Weelaunee Forest from June through December 2023, including accounts of the campaign for an Atlanta voter's referendum on Cop City, the Sixth Week of Action, the relationship between clandestine direct action and public organizing, local Black organizing against the project, the Block Cop City march in November, and potential strategic pathways forward. Tune in for an in-depth evaluation of the latest phase in one of the most critical social struggles of our time. {February 4, 2023}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:37}
  • The Hour Is Drawing Late {2:37}
  • They Don't Care About You {6:38}
  • The Referendum {8:24}
  • What Mass Organizing Makes Possible {11:19}
  • The Sixth Week of Action {17:58}
  • The New Balance of Forces {22:03}
  • Escalating Tactics {25:20}
  • Atlas Technical Consultants Drops Out {27:45}
  • Scooping the Mid-Range: Repressing Public Resistance {30:16}
  • The Storm Before the Storm {33:26}
  • Escalating Repression: RICO and the Furtherance of the Conspiracy {36:26}
  • RICO in Georgia {39:54}
  • You Can't Break Us {41:12}
  • The Scope of Repression Broadens {43:30}
  • This is Not a Local Repression Strategy {45:37}
  • Attrition and Conflict {47:51}
  • From Atlanta to Gaza, No Cop City Anywhere {52:22}
  • Black Self-Organization {54:51}
  • Block Cop City {58:05}
  • Building a Common Understanding {1:01:10}
  • Anatomy of a March {1:03:26}
  • Forward, Arm in Arm {1:06:52}
  • Re-Grouping {1:14:16}
  • A Supporter of the Police? {1:15:45}
  • Gauging Success and Failure {1:17:40}
  • Victory and Defeat: A Chimera {1:27:13}
  • Fighting without Assurances {1:29:38}
  • Continuing Forward {1:31:14}
  • Winning by Attrition {1:35:03}
  • Outro/PSA {1:38:54}

• This episode offers an audio version of "Don't Stop: Continuing the Fight Against Cop City", published by CrimethInc. on December 12th. It includes excerpts from "Don't Panic, Stay Tight: Frontline Reflections on Block Cop City," an account of the November 13th march in Atlanta.

• For background on the first two and a half years of the movement, see the following articles and podcast episodes:
  • "The City in the Forest," (audio version) – chronicles the first year of the movement.
  • "The Forest in the City" (audio version) – chronicles the second year of the movement.
  • "Beneath the Concrete, the Forest" (audio version) – collects first-person accounts from the occupation of Weelaunee forest through the first half of 2022.
  • "Balance Sheet" – explores and evaluates the strategies that different currents in the movement have employed.
  • "Defending Abundance Everywhere" – essays on the webs of relationship linking all creatures and underlying the struggle to defend the forest.
  • "The Atlanta Police and Georgia State Patrol Are Guilty of Murder" – analysis of the assassination of Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán.
  • "Living in an Earthquake" (audio version) – chronicles February through June of 2023, including the fifth week of action, the repression that followed, and the City Hall mobilizations.
  • "Understanding the RICO Charges in Atlanta" (audio version) – analysis of the new wave of legal repression launched in September 2023.

• Stay up to date on developments with news from the Atlanta Community Press Collective

• The Uncover Cop City campaign is targeting the insurers whose coverage makes Cop City possible, including Nationwide Insurance and Accident Fund - follow the links to find office locations and contact information to show your opposition to the project.

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}

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• 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}

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• 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.

In this episode, we share the first-person stories of three comrades on the frontlines of grand jury resistance. As the state escalates repression through a new grand jury investigation in North Carolina against longtime anarchist Katie Yow, this episode offers perspectives from those who have successfully fought a grand jury summons. Tune in to demystify the process of how and why to resist testifying at a grand jury. For more information on her case and to support Katie, check out https://ncresiststhegrandjury.com/ and to learn more about resources available for those resisting and their supporters, check out https://saynothing.noblogs.org/grand-jury-resources/.

For more information on how to stay strong during state repression, see our article How to Survive a Felony Trial.

To hear more about North Carolina Grand Jury Resistance and other cases of ongoing state repression, listen to this episode of The Hotwire. {November 13th, 2017}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Grand Jury Resisters Past and Present {00:00}
  • What is a Grand Jury {01:17}
  • A Knock on the Door {4:51}
  • Breathing Fire {19:35}
  • Facing the State {24:19}
  • Life on the Run {35:11}
  • Trees and Mirrors—Surviving Solitary {38:31}
  • Release {45:53}
  • Back from the Underground {50:47}
  • Conclusion: We Can Survive This {54:45}
  • Support NC Grand Jury Resister Katie Yow {56:16}
  • Statement from Katie Yow {57:17}
• On November 21, at 8 pm Eastern Time, we will broadcast our third live video presentation, in which an experienced legal support worker will explain what grand juries are, how they work, and how to resist them—then answer any questions you have. View the video here on this page or via facebook.com/CrimethIncDotCom.
  
  Tune in to learn about the grand jury process, its legacy of repression, and how you can support resistance to grand juries.
• List of resources:
  • https://ncresiststhegrandjury.com/
  • https://saynothing.noblogs.org/grand-jury-resources/

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}

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• 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}

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• 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}

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• 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}

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• 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}

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• 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}

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• 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}

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• 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.

At first, it appeared to be an ordinary forest defense campaign aimed at discouraging Atlanta city government from pouring money into an unpopular police training facility. But over the past two years, the fight against Cop City has escalated into one of the fiercest struggles of the Biden era, pitting a wide range of courageous people against a united front of politicians, prosecutors, and police. In their desperate efforts to deflect popular resistance and force through the project, police and prosecutors have pressed trumped-up domestic terrorism charges against almost every defendant arrested since last December; they have killed one forest defender; they have charged those engaged in legal support for the arrestees. In the following account and analysis, published on June 21st as "Living in an Earthquake: The Fight against Cop City Confronts Unprecedented Repression," participants in the movement in Atlanta trace its trajectory from the fifth Week of Action that began on March 4, 2023 through the City Council vote of June 5. {December 28, 2023}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:37}
  • Preface {2:21}
  • Living in an Earthquake {3:28}
  • February 2023 {5:59}
  • The Fifth Week of Action {8:33}
  • Retaking Weelaunee People's Park {9:19}
  • The South River Music Festival: A Flower Between Two Abysses {11:49}
  • The March on the Cop City Construction {16:01}
  • Role Reversal {20:15}
  • The Raid on the South River Music Festival {22:12}
  • The Defense of the Music Festival {26:19}
  • A Pyrrhic Victory? {32:31}
  • Jumping to Conclusions {33:20}
  • Defense {36:25}
  • Urban Encampments {38:54}
  • The Limits of Deterrence {43:51}
  • Time and Space {46:14}
  • Controlling Risk {48:21}
  • The Aftermath {52:45}
  • The Week of Action Continues {55:09}
  • Without a Shadow of Doubt {57:07}
  • The Conclusion of the Fifth Week of Action {1:03:14}
  • Clearing Out {1:08:10}
  • Deforestation and Its Consequences {1:14:20}
  • Earth Day Weekend of Resilience {1:15:59}
  • Campus Actions {1:16:50}
  • War by Other Means {1:19:03}
  • The Attack on the Solidarity Fund {1:25:21}
  • The Centrists versus Everyone {1:27:43}
  • However They Vote, We Must Be Ungovernable {1:30:39}
  • The Theory of Failure and Disappointment {1:40:07}
  • Making a Virtue of Necessity {1:42:50}

• This episode offers an audio version of "Living in an Earthquake: The Fight against Cop City Confronts Unprecedented Repression," published by CrimethInc. on June 21st.

• For background on the first two and a half years of the movement, see the following articles and podcast episodes: "The City in the Forest," (audio version) – chronicles the first year of the movement "The Forest in the City" (audio version) – chronicles the second year of the movement "Beneath the Concrete, the Forest" (audio version) – collects first-person accounts from the occupation of Weelaunee forest through the first half of 2022 "Balance Sheet" – explores and evaluates the strategies that different currents in the movement have employed "Defending Abundance Everywhere" – essays on the webs of relationships linking all creatures and underlying the struggle to defend the forest "The Atlanta Police and Georgia State Patrol Are Guilty of Murder" – analysis of the assassination of Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán "Understanding the RICO Charges in Atlanta" (audio version) – analysis of the new wave of legal repression launched in September 2023

• For our most recent coverage, see "Don't Stop: Continuing the Fight Against Cop City", published by CrimethInc. on December 12th; stay tuned for the audio version, soon to be released as Ex-Worker Episode #105.

• You can find texts, posters, graphics, and more materials about the movement online through Defend the Atlanta Forest: Library. Check out the Atlanta Community Press Collective for ongoing coverage.

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}

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• 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}

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• 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.

In episode #56, we covered the repercussions of the violent showdown that took place between fascists and counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12. The month since then has seen massive anti-fascist demonstrations around the US and a backlash in which liberal "centrists" have joined the far right in attempting to portray those who resist fascism as being no better than the fascists who murdered Heather Heyer in Charlottesville in the course attempting to bring about another Holocaust. In this episode, we back up a bit to offer some background on contemporary fascism and the struggle against it, refute hostile propaganda from the corporate media, and present some points of departure from which to strategize the future of the anti-fascist movement. Along the way, we hear from author Mark Bray, debunk myths about "free speech," and break up with Noam Chomsky, who helped get some of us into this stuff but is really losing his grip in his old age. This episode includes complete audio versions of several important texts that have appeared on crimethinc.com recently, including "Not Your Grandfather's Antifascism," "Why We Fought in Charlottesville," and the interview "Squaring off against Fascism: Critical Reflections from the Front Lines." {September 12, 2017}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:01}
  • Excerpts from Ex-Worker Episode 11 {2:03}
  • It's Over, Noam {9:30}
  • Essay: 'Myths about Antifa' by Spencer Sunshine {15:47}
  • Free Speech FAQ {17:49}
  • Democracy Now Interview with Mark Bray {25:56}
  • CrimethInc. Essay: Why We Fought in Charlottesville {36:52}
  • CrimethInc. Essay: Squaring off against Fascism {46:29}
  • CrimethInc. Essay: Not Your Grandfather's Antifascism {1:06:06}
  • Conclusion {1:32:11}
• We included excerpts from our discussion of fascism and anti-fascism from Ex-Worker Episode 11; we'd recommend revisiting that episode for an analysis of contemporary fascism and the resistance anarchists have mounted to it, including the history of Anti-Racist Action. The episode also contains interviews with One People's Project and New York City Anarchist Black Cross.
• Spencer Sunshine's "Debunking the 3 Biggest Myths About Antifa" is an essay we quote at length in this episode to point out some of the ways that anti-fascist action in Charlottesville and around the country has helped shut down fascist organizing.
• We included an excerpt of our Free Speech FAQ from Ex-Worker Episode 12; check out this episode in full for a look into how anarchists fought against Franco in the Spanish Revolution and beyond, as well as interview with Occupied London about fascism and resistance in Greece, as well as some lively anti-fascist movie reviews.
• Mark Bray just published a new book, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. In this episode, we excerpt from a great two-part interview he did with Democracy Now. Part 1 / Part 2
• This episode includes complete audio versions of several important texts that have appeared on crimethinc.com recently, including "Not Your Grandfather's Antifascism," "Why We Fought in Charlottesville," and the interview "Squaring off against Fascism: Critical Reflections from the Front Lines."
• Tune into The Hotwire, our new 20–30 minute weekly anarchist newscast. New episodes premier every Wednesday this fall.

Welcome back to the Ex-Worker! Our topic this time is a look at the recent G20 protests in Hamburg, Germany. This summer's G20 saw some of the most pitched clashes to occur in Northern Europe in years. Despite bringing the full force of one of the world's most powerful governments to bear against the population, the authorities were unable to repress the courageous revolt of the people of Hamburg and the opponents of the G20. Tune in for first-person accounts of what happened on the ground, from the comrades who were there. {September 8, 2017}

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• You can read our full report on the G20 protests, Don't Try to Break Us—We'll Explode, complete with extensive video footage, citations, hyperlinks, further reading, and additional maps and photographs. The text of the report is available as a zine you can print and distribute where you live. You can also print out our poster celebrating the G20 resistance, "Everyone dreams of a better world—our crime is making it a reality."

This episode we bring you an overview, and an interview, about the anarchist and autonomously organized relief efforts in response to Hurricane Harvey.

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:00}
  • Headlines {1:14}
  • Feature: Autonomous relief after Hurricane Harvey {14:15}
  • Repression Roundup {23:29}
  • Prisoner Birthdays {24:50}
  • Next Week's News {25:50}
• Hurricane Harvey grassroots relief efforts: You can donate to Bayou Action Street Health here or consult their resource wishlist. You can also contact them directly via houstonstreetmediccollective@gmail.com. Greater Houston Grassroots Relief, Austin Common Ground, the Black Women's Defense League, Redneck Revolt Houston, West Street Response Team, and Houston Food Not Bombs are all coordinating relief efforts as well.
• Protests against the rollback of DACA are taking place across the country as we go to press. We have a downloadable poster against borders here.
• Despite the liberal blowback against antifascism in the media, some principled pieces have been written defending antifascism and debunking the lies about the movement. Spencer Sunshine's "Debunking the 3 Biggest Myths About Antifa" is particularly good. "Why it's just bonkers to compare fascists to the activists trying to stop them," "Waiting for a Perfect Protest?," and "Liberals enable white power by lazily attacking Antifa" have some interesting points too. For the best overview of where antifascism is at strategically, check out the CrimethInc. text "Not Your Grandfather's Antifascism Anti-Fascism Has Arrived. Here's Where It Needs to Go." To brush up on anarchist arguments about the question of free speech for fascists, check out this essay and FAQ.
• Consult this list of targets for a week of actions against the oil lobby, in solidarity with the fight against Junex in Gaspesie: going on right now until September 10th.
• Rose City Antifa have put out a call for community defense against a Patriot Prayer rally on September 10th in Portland, OR.
• 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.
• If you're near Asheville, North Carolina, show some love for anti-authoritarian students during their Radical Rush Week this week.
• Upcoming prisoner birthdays:

  Dane Powell
  BOP Register number 82015007
  Federal Correctional Institution - Low PO Box 1031
  Colman, Florida 33521
  {September 7}

  Leonard Peltier
  #89637–132 USP Coleman I
  Post Office Box 1033
  Coleman, Florida 33521
  {September 12}

Welcome to the first episode of The Hotwire! Our feature for this episode covers the upswing in antifascist action post-Charlottesville. We also bring you an interview from Hurricane Harvey, The Hotwire horoscope, and news of resistance and rebellion from around the world. Listen until the end for prisoner birthdays and announcements of upcoming anarchist events and bookfairs.

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:00}
  • Solidarity efforts for Hurricane Harvey {1:10}
  • Headlines {4:42}
  • Feature: Antifascism after #Charlottesville {8:29}
  • Repression Roundup {24:45}
  • Prisoner Birthdays {29:45}
  • Next Week's News {31:14}
• Hurricane Harvey grassroots relief efforts: You can donate to Bayou Action Street Health here or consult their resource wishlist. You can also contact them directly via houstonstreetmediccollective@gmail.com. Austin Common Ground, the Black Women's Defense League, Redneck Revolt Houston, and Houston Food Not Bombs are all coordinating relief efforts as well.
• Legal fund for anti-fracking arrestee Freddy Stoneypoint.
• Security culture! Learn to protect your communications, protect yourself from doxxing, and how to respond when police come knocking. For a comprehensive list of resources on resisting grand juries, check out NCResistsTheGrandJury.com
• We speak about felony riot charges being used from DC to New Orleans to Durham this year. For more on the use of riot charges to suppress resistance, check out Natasha Lennard's wonderful article "How the Government Is Turning Protesters Into Felons"
• We also 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.
• If you're near Asheville, North Carolina, show some love for anti-authoritarians during their Radical Rush Week next week. If you're near Chapel Hill, their Radical Rush Week calendar can be found here.
• Upcoming prisoner birthdays:

  Ronald Reed #2195311
  Minnesota Correctional Facility-Rush City
  7600 525th Street
  Rush City, Minnesota
  55069–2265
  {August 31}

  Alexander Irwin #2016012934
  St. Louis County Jail
  P.O. Box 16060
  Clayton, MO 63105
  {September 5}
  Please note that Alexander is pre-trial. Do not write about illegal activity and assume that any charges from the state are alleged and falsely accused.

  Brian Vaillancourt M42889
  Robinson Correctional Center
  13423 East 1150th Avenue
  Robinson, Illinois 62454
  {September 5}

  Dane Powell
  BOP Register number 82015007
  Federal Correctional Institution - Low PO Box 1031
  Colman, Florida 33521
  {September 7}

On August 12th, 2017, a massive alt-right and neo-Nazi rally took place in Charlottesville, Virginia. While a large counter-demonstration successfully confronted the fascists, one drove a car into a crowd of protestors, killing at least one and injuring many more. In this special report from the Ex-Worker, we hear the story of the Charlottesville demonstrations from anarchists who put their bodies on the line to stop fascism. This episode includes context and background to understand how the organizing took place, narratives from the streets, and reflections on lessons learned and the state of our struggles moving forward. We also share essays analyzing what we need to do to fight fascism, how the right wing built their murderous momentum, and what their war on protest tells us about the threat to their agenda posed by our resistance. We dedicate this episode to the memory of Heather Heyer, who died at the hands of a fascist this weekend, and to the commitment we share to fighting by any means necessary to ensure that this never happens again. {August 14, 2017}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:01}
  • Background to the Charlottesville Demonstrations {2:02}
  • Interview: An Anonymous Anarchist of Color on the Charlottesville Demonstrations {12:15}
  • Essay: "Charlottesville and the Rise of Fascism in the USA: What We Need to Do" {36:47}
  • Interview: Two Virginia Anarchists on the Charlottesville Demonstrations {47:37}
  • Essay: "One Dead in Charlottesville: Why the Right Can Kill Us Now" {1:21:59}
  • Essay: "From J20 to Charlottesville: Repressing Protest From Above and Below" {1:25:40}
  • Conclusion {1:38:24}

• Check this ongoing list of solidarity actions around the world to find a way to get involved in remembering Charlottesville and resisting fascism.

• Here are links to some of the various solidarity and medical support funds our comrades have vouched for, if you want to make a donation: Dre Harris Medical Fund, Memorial fund by the Democratic Socialists of America, Heather Heyer's Family, #DefendCville Med Fund, VA Youth Rally Victims; Help Queers Defend Cville, SolidarityCville, Natalie Romero Medical Fund, Alexis and Noelle Morris Medical Fund, Black Lives Matter Charlottesville, Black Student Alliance at UVA, Tracye Redd, The Women's Initiative Cville, Allie's Fund

• We shared two essays originally published on the CrimethInc. blog: "Charlottesville and the Rise of Fascism in the USA: What We Need to Do" and "One Dead in Charlottesville: Why the Right Can Kill Us Now."

• We also included a short excerpt from our discussion of resistance to white supremacy in Episode 40; we'd recommend revisiting that episode for background on the anti-police and anti-racist rebellions of 2014–2015.

• Now is an important time to show support for your local antifa group or project, and to show up when they call to confront white supremacists and fascists. The folks at Three Way Fight have assembled this vouched list of trustworthy antifa resources and groups. Beware, however, of signing up for just any antifa feed—many of them are fake accounts used to doxx genuinely antifascist newcomers to the movement.

• For a reportback on the July 8th anti-KKK demo in Charlottesville that preceded the August 12th rally, see this episode of The Final Straw.

• If you'd like to learn more about fascism and the history of anarchist opposition to it, check out the Ex-Worker's Episode 11 and Episode 12.

• Historian James Loewen has explored the true history of Confederate monuments, and the brutal histories they represent, in his books Lies My Teacher Told Me and Lies Across America.

• Here's more info about The Hotwire, our forthcoming weekly anarchist newscast.

So, this isn't quite the Ex-Worker, and I'm not Clara or Alanis. I'm here to tell you about the Ex-Worker's new anarchist news show, the Hotwire, with me, the Rebel Girl. We'll have new episodes coming out every Wednesday this fall.

The last year has been one of the craziest years for anarchist struggle in our lifetime. Black blocs, prison uprisings, warrior camps and anti-pipeline sabotage, antifascist clashes with nationalists and the alt-right—we've been doxxed, shot, stabbed, raided, arrested and imprisoned, we've been put on blast by the president himself, but resistance is still catching on like wildfire. With so much happening, it can be difficult to get caught up with the latest important news while still surviving capitalism's daily grind. However, being informed and up-to-date is crucial for our resistance to be effective.

That's why we're bringing you The Hotwire, a weekly 20–30 minute anarchist news show that comes out every Wednesday this fall. We'll have the latest resistance news, along with repression round-ups, political prisoner birthdays, and announcements for upcoming activities that you can tap into in real life. We're making this podcast not only for you to better consume the news, but for you to better act on it too.

For those of you who miss The Ex-Worker, don't fret, they'll be back periodically with their wonderful full-length episodes on anarchist ideas and history, but unfortunately the latest upswing in activity has meant that Clara and Alanis have had their hands full with other revolutionary obligations. In the meantime, we hope that you'll tune into The Hotwire.

Our first season will launch on August 30th and last until December, then we'll pick back up in the spring. As always, we encourage submissions and feedback. Get in touch with us at podcast@crimethinc.com. You can subscribe to the show for free via iTunes, Pocket Casts, or Overcast. We're a co-conspirator in the Channel Zero anarchist podcast network. You can also listen to new episodes for free on our website, Crimethinc.com, where you'll find the full archive of past Ex-Worker episodes.

Stay informed. Stay rebel. Plug into The Hotwire.

January 20th, 2017 saw perhaps the fiercest resistance to ever take place at an American presidential inauguration. Episode 55 of The Ex-Worker podcast surveys the day's momentous protests in DC and beyond, mass media reactions to anarchist resistance, and lessons for the future of radical protest. We begin with an interview with an organizer from Disrupt J20, evaluating the blockades, marches, and disruptions, commenting on state and right-wing repression, reflecting on the spokescouncil model, and sharing visions for the future, as well as info on how to support the 200-plus comrades arrested in the streets that day. Our friends at Agency, an anarchist media relations project, share a detailed report on mass media coverage of the demonstrations and of anarchists and anarchism over the past weeks, including plenty of hilarious quotes and clips. From an anonymous arrestee from DC's J20 protests, we offer an analysis of how to make the best of mass arrests. We then share reports from a few of the hundreds of protests and actions that took place outside of Washington, DC on January 20th, including arrests leading to serious charges against anarchists in New Orleans and the shooting of an antifascist protestor in Seattle. The episode wraps up with an analysis about how to "Take the Offensive: Moving from Protest to Resistance". All this, plus news, prisoner birthdays, updates from international struggles, and plenty more!

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:01}
  • The Hot Wire {6:55}
  • Interview with Disrupt J20 Organizer {12:30}
  • Legal Support for DC J20 Arrestees{31:56}
  • Agency on Anarchists in the Mass Media {35:21}
  • "Making the Best of Mass Arrests: 12 Lessons from the Kettle During the J20 Protests" {1:04:02}
  • J20 Protests Beyond Washington, DC {1:25:55}
  • "Take the Offensive: Moving from Protest to Resistance" {1:42:15}
  • International Updates and Calls for Solidarity {1:54:32} Prisoner Birthdays {2:00:38}
  • Conclusion {2:01:27}
• Support the folks arrested in the streets on January 20th at the counter-inaugural protests! Check out this video produced by SubMedia that lays out the situation, and donate to the bail and legal support funds at disruptj20.org/legal-fund/.
• We shared two recently published texts in this episode: "Making the Best of Mass Arrests: 12 Lessons from the Kettle During the J20 Protests", and "Take the Offensive: Moving from Protest to Resistance". We also shared an excerpt from Disrupt J20's blog post, "Fuck Yeah We Disrupted It!
• Our friends over at Agency, an anarchist media relations project, produced the comprehensive overview of mass media coverage of anarchism on J20 and beyond. Stay posted to their site for updates on anarchist appearances in the mass media, and drop them a line if you're interested in being part of their Not Just In the Streets: Anarchists in the Media speaker's bureau.
• Fifteen people identified in the mass media as anarchists face serious charges after a January 20th march in New Orleans. Check out this online fundraiser for New Orleans J20 arrestees.
• For reflections on the shooting of an anarchist protestor by a right-wing troll in Seattle, check out the CrimethInc. piece "What Counts As Violence? Why the Right Can Shoot Us Now", which appeared shortly after the shooting. Supporters from the IWW have put up a fundraising page to raise money for the medical costs of our injured comrade; we've got the link posted on our website. For links to all the the reportbacks we cited during the "J20 Beyond DC" section, check the full transcript.
• Comrades from the Greek anarchist radio project Radio Fragmata have announced a new initiative of solidarity for anarchist and anti-authoritarian prisoners; to support or find out more, contact them at radiofragmata[at]espiv[dot]net.
• Comrades from the Hambacher Forest occupation in Germany have issued a call for supporters around the world to prepare an anti-repression response](http://hambachforest.blogsport.de/2017/02/09/call-for-anti-repression-response/) at German embassies and offices of the energy corporation RWE, in case of an anticipated eviction of forest tree sits and a meadow encampment. To learn more about the years-long struggle to defend one of Germany's ancient forests against brown coal mining, visit HambachForest.blogsport.de, or listen to our audio documentary about the occupation in Episode 37.
• The G20 summit will be meeting in Hamburg, Germany; see this video on our website made by activists who are planning to disrupt it for info.
• Folks at the ZAD are raising funds for an herbal medicine clinic at the anti-airport occupation in western France. Email plantesmedicinaleszad[at]riseup[dot]net for more info. To hear an interview with a resident of the ZAD, check out Episode 14 on squatting.
• Recent and upcoming prisoner birthdays:
  
  Veronza Bowers, Jr. 35316–136
  USP Atlanta
  Post Office Box 150160
  Atlanta, Georgia 30315
  {February 4th}
  
  Kamau Sadiki (Freddie Hilton) #0001150688
  Augusta State Medical Prison, Building 13A–2 E7
  3001 Gordon Highway
  Grovetown, Georgia 30813
  Address envelope to Freddie Hilton, address card to Kamau
  {February 19th}
  
  Oso Blanco (Byron Chubbuck) #07909–051
  USP Hazelton
  Post Office Box 2000
  Bruceton Mills, WV 26525
  Address envelope to Byron Chubbuck, address card to Oso Blanco
  {February 26th}
  
  Reverend Joy Powell #07G0632
  Bedford Hills CF
  Post Office Box 1000
  Bedford Hills, New York 10507–2499
  {March 5th}

What will resistance look like in the Trump era? What role can anarchists play? In Episode 54 of The Ex-Worker podcast we grapple with these questions as they will unfold on January 20 and beyond. It's true, we incorrectly predicted a Clinton victory—reaction has advanced faster than we'd realized, but this apocalyptic scenario has catalyzed a flurry of rebellion and defiance. We begin the episode by recounting our analysis of the risks and possibilities of this political moment produced in the immediate aftermath of the election, as well as the "No Peaceful Transition" call that dozens of anarchist and antifascist groups have endorsed. On our recent speaking tour, some Ex-Workers traveled through the Northeast and Midwest, discussing the economic and political context framing Trump's victory and learning about the initiatives to fight back and build autonomy going on across the country. We share an audio recording of the presentation, and complement it with an excerpt from a history of anarchist counter-inaugural protest, recently published hot on the heels of our Washington, DC anti-globalization walking tour. You'll also hear an announcement about the new CrimethInc website, prisoner birthdays, and more. Whether or not you can make it to DC, let's make sure that in the days and weeks to come we set a tone for uncompromising, ungovernable resistance to Trump and the world that makes him possible. {January 18, 2017}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:01}
  • President Trump: Countdown to Apocalypse {2:06}
  • No Peaceful Transition: Call to #DisruptJ20 {8:46}
  • "Resistance in the Trump Era": CrimethInc. Speaking Tour Presentation {13:45}
  • "Whoever They Vote For, We Are Ungovernable: A History of Anarchist Counter-Inaugural Protest" (excerpt) {1:06:20}
  • Under No Management: The New CrimethInc.com {1:25:42}
  • Prisoner Birthdays {1:28:29}
  • Conclusion {1:29:43}
• For the latest info about counter-inaugural protests, see the Disrupt J20 website and follow them on Twitter at [#DisruptJ20](https://twitter.com/disruptJ20). See you in the streets!
• We began the episode with the statement we released immediately after the election, "President Trump: Countdown to Apocalypse". We also shared the "No Peaceful Transition" call to counter-inaugural action released shortly after.
• The presentation we recorded for this episode took place in Asheville, North Carolina at Firestorm Books and Cafe, as part of a nine city speaking tour on resistance in the Trump era.
• This episode includes an excerpt from "Whoever They Vote For, We Are Ungovernable: A History of Anarchist Counter-Inaugural Protest". And don't neglect to enjoy the infamous crowd-surf to freedom from 2001.
• If you can make it to DC, be sure to check out the Anti-Globalization Walking Tour produced by the Ex-Worker!
• If you're reading this, you've noticed that we've overhauled our website! To learn more, check out the announcement, "Under No Management: The New CrimethInc.com".
• In the concluding part of the speaking tour presentation, we mention projects by The Base in Brooklyn, NY; Ungovernable 2017 in Jackson, MS and beyond; Inaugurate the Revolution in Bloomington, IN; and others.
• Don't forget about the upcoming Trans Prisoner Day of Action and Solidarity on January 22nd!
• Prisoner birthdays:
  
  Herman Bell #79-C–0262
  Great Meadow Correctional Facility
  11739 State Route 22
  Post Office Box 51
  Comstock, New York 12821–0051
  {January 14th}
  
  Sundiata Acoli (Clark Squire) #39794–066
  FCI Cumberland
  Post Office Box 1000
  Cumberland, Maryland 21501
  Please address envelope to Clark Squire, card/letter to Sundiata Acoli
  {January 14th}
  
  Joseph Bowen #AM 4272
  SCI Coal Township
  1 Kelley Drive
  Coal Township, Pennsylvania 17866–1020
  Nickname: Joe-Joe
  {January 15th}
  
  Marius (Marie) Mason #04672–061
  FMC Carswell
  Post Office Box 27137
  Fort Worth, Texas 76127
  Please address envelope to Marie, card/letter to Marius
  {January 26th}
  
  Veronza Bowers, Jr. 35316–136
  USP Atlanta
  Post Office Box 150160
  Atlanta, Georgia 30315
  {February 4th}

A so-called "anarcho-capitalist" has just been elected president in Argentina. What does this mean for anarchists and the prospects for revolutionary change in South America? Spoiler alert: it's not looking good. In this episode, we share an account from an Argentinian anarchist analyzing the recent rise to power of Javier Milei, an extreme neoliberal economist, in the context of the global turn towards fascist and reactionary populist leaders like Trump and Bolsonaro. You'll get an in-depth look at the history of center-left rule, military dictatorship, and neoliberal austerity that resulting in the powerful popular uprising of 2001, along with an detailed assessment of the economic challenges, disillusionment with the political class, and failures of the left and radical social movements that facilitated Milei's rise. This is a disturbing but essential exploration of one of the year's most important political developments, with critical implications for those of us fighting the culture and politics and fascism around the world. {December 10, 2023}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:37}
  • Back to the Future {1:30}
  • "Viva la Libertad!"—Freedom to Work or Starve, to Submit or be Shot {5:53}
  • History Repeats Itself Again {17:30}
  • Ultraliberals, the Military, and Repression: A Love Story {27:18}
  • The "Forces of Heaven" against the Orcs {35:04}
  • Outro/PSA {42:31}

• This episode offers an audio version of Back to the Future: The Return of the Ultraliberal Right in Argentina, published by CrimethInc. on November 26th. The article quotes from a post-election statement by a coalition of "especifist" anarchist organizations in Argentina.

• For coverage of recent popular mobilization in Argentina, see our coverage of the 2018 G20 protests in Buenos Aires: Setting the Stage: Background Materials and Logbook November 14–16, Logbook November 17–19: Peronism, Counter-Summit Creativity, and the Schedule of Resistance, and Logbook November 20–22: Security Zones and Shantytowns.

• This episode discusses in depth the 2001 uprising that succeeded in driving the neoliberal regime from power. The classic zine account is Que Se Vayan Todos: Argentina's Popular Uprising.

• Argentina featured one of the world's largest and most powerful anarchist movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including some of the earliest anarcha-feminist projects. To learn more about this history, you could start with some of these resources: "Anarchism in Latin America" by Ángel Cappelletti, "The Anarchist Expropriators: Buenaventura Durruti and Argentina's Working-Class Robin Hood" by Osvaldo Bayer, "Anarchism in Argentina" and "Resistencia Libertaria: Anarchist Opposition to the Last Argentine Dictatorship" by Chuck Morse, and "No God, No Boss, No Husband: The world's first Anarcha-Feminist group."

• In case you were confused on this point, "anarcho-capitalist" is an oxymoron. We explore this in more depth in Episode 18 of the Ex-Worker, "What Anarchism Isn't, Pt 1: Libertarianism and Anarcho-Capitalism."

Our first walking tour! Protesters descending on Washington, D.C. to #DisruptJ20 are stepping into a long history of resistance in the belly of the beast. One of the most innovative and powerful cycles of protest in the nation's capital was the movement against corporate globalization in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Most tours of D.C. take you around the monuments and museums downtown, but we want to show you another side of the city—the neighborhoods and DIY spaces from which anarchists launched attacks on capital and where seeds were planted for a new world to take its place. Through historic sites, interviews, and a scrapbook of anti-capitalist mementos, we hope to pass on some of the lessons and inspiration that the anti-globalization movement can offer, especially as a new wave of struggle begins under Trump. {January 9, 2017}

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• We've put together a YouTube version of the walking tour with the photos included at our YouTube channel
• Anarchist history is not for books you can close and set away on a shelf. Use the lessons and inspiration from this episode to get active. You can start next week with the #DisruptJ20 anti-inaugural activities in DC on January 20th.
• We discuss and sample multiple documentaries about the mass anti-corporate globalization protests that took place during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Many of these can be found online, like This Is What Democracy Looks Like, Breaking the Spell, Breaking the Bank, The Miami Model, and the highly recommended Crowd Bites Wolf.
• The excerpt from the A16 Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Bloc statement came from The Black Bloc Papers, which is a great resource for understanding that part of early 2000s anarchism.
• We discuss a bunch of different groups in this episode, including the DC Anti-Capitalist Convergence, Positive Force, APOC, Profane Existence, and Indymedia.
• Upcoming prisoner birthdays:

  Sundiata Acoli 39794–066
  FCI Cumberland
  Post Office Box 1000
  Cumberland, MD 21501
  {January 14th}

  Herman Bell 79-C–0262
  Great Meadow Correctional Facility
  11739 State Route 22
  Post Office Box 51
  Comstock, NY 12821–0051
  {January 14th}

  Joseph "Joe Joe" Bowen AM–4272
  1 Kelley Drive
  Coal Township, PA 17866–1021
  {January 15th}

  Marius Mason #04672–061
  FMC Carswell
  Federal Medical Center
  Post Office Box 27137
  Forth Worth, TX 76127
  {January 26th}

• January 24th is the International Day of Solidarity with Trans Prisoners. Do something in your community

We know you've been on the edge of your seat, waiting for see which candidate will receive the Ex-Worker's endorsement for president this year. In Episode 52, we offer an Ex-Voter's guide to the 2016 election, including an analysis of the risks we anticipate in its aftermath titled After the Election, the Reaction. There's lots of listener feedback to discuss, including advice for a young anarchist on less illegal or risky forms of anarchist action, updates about conflict between the Turkish state and the forces of Rojava, and a nuanced discussion of what "solidarity" really means, or should mean, in concrete terms. On the Chopping Block, we undertake a work of fiction for the first time, Nanni Balestrini's Vogliamo Tutto, or We Want Everything. There's also an announcement about some upcoming CrimethInc. developments, along with prisoner birthdays and more. We released this episode in tandem with an audio zine exploring anarchist critiques of voting, elections, and representative democracy, which you can download as Episode 51. {November 7, 2016}

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• Our discussion of the 2016 Presidential election and its likely aftermath centered around After the Election, the Reaction, the recently published text from the CrimethInc. blog. It also included clips from Wavy Gravy, George Carlin, the Las Vegas Trump/Clinton debate, Trump's advisor Roger Stone, and Public Enemy.
• On the Chopping Block, we reviewed Vogliamo Tutto, or We Want Everything, by Nanni Balestrini.
• In our listener feedback discussions, we mentioned a wide range of less-risky ways to get involved, including organizing Really Really Free Markets, helping start a Solidarity Network, researching polluters and prison profiteers like CCA, the Geo Group, Enbridge, and VINCI, learning about electronic security and encryption and how to beat surveillance, screening video from SubMedia, raising money for political prisoners, solidarity groups in Rojava, or the occupation resisting the Dakota Access Pipeline, and lots more.
• We also referred to writings by anarchist people of color and writings about black anarchism, such as the work of Ashanti Alston, Black Anarchism: A Reader, Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Anarchy Can't Fight Alone and other writings by Kuwasi Balagoon, African Anarchism by Sam Mbah](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/march–2012-interview-with-sam-mbah), Anarchist People of Color (APOC), and the zine Our Culture, Our Resistance.
• In our discussion of Turkey and Rojava, we mentioned this grim picture of the city of Nusaybin from occupied northern Kurdistan. The Noam Chomsky excerpt came from the 2001 CD "An American Addiction."
• In our discussion of solidarity, we referred to Gabriel Kuhn's book Turning Money into Rebellion on solidarity-motivated Danish communist bank robbers - also check out the interview with Gabriel about the book on the Stand Up Fight Back podcast (their website is down, but you can find it via iTunes). We also mentioned our discussion of radical martyrs and martyrdom in Episode 50, Rojava Solidarity NYC, the Weather Underground, the George Jackson Brigade, Luciano "Tortuga" Pitronello's prison letters - we reviewed them in Episode 5, and interviewed Tortuga in Episode 30 - Oso Blanco, and the Phoenix Project.
• Prisoner birthdays last month:
• Justin Solondz #98291–011
  FCI Oakdale I
  Post Office Box 5000
  Oakdale, Louisiana 71463
  {October 3rd}
  
  Joshua Stafford #57976–060
  USP Tucson
  P.O. BOX 24550
  Tucson, AZ 85734
  Please address card/letter to Skelly, envelope to Joshua Stafford
  {October 3rd}
  
  Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin #99974–555
  USP Tuscon
  Post Office Box 24550
  Tuscon, Arizona 85734
  {October 4th}
  
  David Gilbert #83-A–6158
  Auburn Correctional Facility
  Post Office Box 618
  Auburn, New York 13021
  {October 6th}
  
  Michael Davis Africa #AM–4973
  SCI Graterford
  Post Office Box 244
  Graterford, Pennsylvania 19426–0244
  {October 6th}
  
  Meral Smith
  Seguro Correctional Center
  1252 East Arica Road
  Eloy, Arizona 85131
  Please address card/letter to Malik, envelope to Meral Smith
  {October 8th}
  
  Robert Seth Hayes #74-A–2280 Sullivan Correctional Facility
  P.O. Box 116
  Fallsburg, NY 12733–0116
  {October 15th}
  
  Anthony J. Bottom #77A4283
  Attica C.F.
  P.O. Box 149
  Attica, NY 14011–0149
  Please address card/letter to Jalil, envelope to Anthony Bottom
  {October 18th}
  
  Edward Goodman Africa #AM–4974
  SCI Mahonoy
  301 Morea Road
  Frackville, PA 17932
  {October 31st}

Do anarchists vote? If not, how do we express our voice and participate in changing society? What's the problem with elections and representative democracy? In this special Election Day audio zine,we describe why electing representatives robs us of our power, refute common arguments made to convince us of the value of voting, explain direct action as an alternative approach for making change without politicians and parties, and lay out our vision for a free world beyond electoral politics. We begin by surveying anarchist responses to elections from the 19th century to the present day, and include excerpts from CrimethInc. interventions against the last few presidential elections, including "Don't Just Vote, Get Active: A Community Non-Partisan Voters' Guide" (2004), "Voting vs. Direct Action" (c. 2004), "False Hope vs. Real Change" (2008), "The Party's Over" (c. 2009), and the "Democracy is Bankrupt" website (2012). This audio zine provides background for our discussion of the 2016 presidential campaign and its likely aftermath, which appears in Episode 52. Whoever they vote for, we are ungovernable! {November 7, 2016}

-------SHOW NOTES------

• This audio zine draws on several previously published CrimethInc. texts that address voting, elections, democracy, and direct action, including "Don't Just Vote, Get Active: A Community Non-Partisan Voters' Guide" (2004), "Voting vs. Direct Action" (c. 2004), "False Hope vs. Real Change" (2008), The Party's Over" (c. 2009), and the "Democracy is Bankrupt" website (2012).
• In the introduction, we quoted a variety of historical anarchist critiques of elections, voting, and representative democracy, including: Mikhail Bakunin, "On Representative Government and ; Peter Kropotkin, "Revolutionary Government"; Elisee Reclus, "Why Anarchists Don't Vote"; Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"; Emma Goldman, "Woman Suffrage"; Zo d'Axa, "He Is Elected"; and the Yippies' nomination of Pigasus. You can find many more anarchist critiques on these themes via The Anarchist Library.

As we build momentum towards the September 9th national prison strike, we want to reflect on lessons learned from past generations of prison rebels, as well as how we can maintain energy on September 10th and beyond. In Episode 50 of the Ex-Worker, solidarity organizer Ben Turk fills us in on some history of prisoner organizing in recent decades, recaps some of the solidarity actions that have taken place leading up to this year's historic strike, and offers perspective on continuing and deepening our resistance to prison society. We commemorate the death of Jordan MacTaggart, an American anarchist killed on the front lines in battle with the YPG against the Islamic State, and discuss international solidarity and the politics of martyrdom with Rojava Solidarity NYC. The death of John Timoney, former police chief and notorious foe of anarchists, prompts both glee and a somber reflection on the misery he inflicted on us. A member of Revolutionary Anarchist Action (DAF) in Istanbul discusses the background to the recent failed military coup as well as recent waves of anti-anarchist repression. A call for solidarity from la ZAD, news, events, and prisoner birthdays round out this packed episode. {September 7, 2016}

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• Find a demonstration or event about the September 9th prison strike near you, or post it here if you're organizing one.
• We interview Ben Turk about the struggle against US prisons, including the upcoming September 9th strike and beyond. Wanna read more about some of the prison rebel history he mentioned? Learn more about the Attica uprising, Walpole and Men Against Sexism in Walla Walla, and especially the Lucasville Uprising of 1993, plus more recent upheavals including the Pelican Bay hunger strike against solitary confinement - which we covered as it was happening in Episode 9 - as well as the Georgia prisoner strike, the Free Alabama Movement, the Menard, Illinois hunger strike, the recent Bend the Bars Conference in Columbus, Ohio, and the Dying to Live hunger strike movement in Waupon, WI.
• Repressive cop extraordinaire John Timoney has shuffled off his mortal coil. Check out this commemoration of his miserable life by some anarchist comrades. Good fucking riddance, asshole!
• We discussed the recent death of American anarchist Jordan MacTaggart. Check out the send-off video produced as a tribute by Rojava Solidarity NYC. Also check out this lengthy article written last winter in which Jordan shares stories about his experiences fighting on the front lines. To learn more about the revolution in Rojava, listen to our previous coverage in Episode 36 and Episode 39, and check out Rojava Solidarity NYC's book "A Small Key Can Open A Large Door: The Rojava Revolution".
• We shared an excerpt from an interview with Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet (DAF), or Revolutionary Anarchist Action, an anarchist organization based in Istanbul, Turkey. Thanks to our friends at Crna Luknja in Ljubljana, Slovenia for sharing it with us. Learn more about DAF via their website or their Facebook page.
• The US "Justice" Department recently announced its intention to phase out the use of private prisons. Good news, right? Well… these anarchists don't necessarily think so. Either way, it's unquestionable that prison privatization has horrible consequences for the incarcerated; if you weren't already convinced, check out this massive expose by Mother Jones magazine about the corruption and brutality of private prison industry, written by an undercover reporter who actually got a job as a guard in a CCA prison; it's fascinating, horrifying reading. But the question is whether this reform will serve to weaken or strengthen mass incarceration in the long run. As Ben Turk mentions in his interview, the so-called "prison reform movement" led by such luminaries as Hillary Clinton and Newt Gingrich exists not to abolish prisons, but to generalize carceral logics across all of society.
• Check out the call for solidarity on October 8th with la ZAD, the anti-airport occupation in western France. Listen to our Episode 14 on squatting for an interview with a resident of la ZAD.
• Other upcoming events include Running Down the Walls, an annual 5 K run that benefits political prisoners and prisoners of war, on September 4th in New York City and on September 11th in Denver, the Fighting Future Prisons tour in Northern England, and the Red Warrior Camp's global weeks of solidarity to support the indigenous-led movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, from September 3rd to 17th.
• Upcoming prisoner birthdays:
  
  Brian Vaillancourt M42889
  Robinson Correctional Center
  13423 East 1150th Avenue
  Robinson, Illinois 62454
  {September 5th}
  
  Alexander Irwin #2016012934
  St. Louis County Jail
  P.O. Box 16060
  Clayton, MO 63105
  {September 5th}
  Please note that Alexander is pre-trial. Do not write about illegal activity and assume that any charges from the state are alleged and falsely accused.
  
  Leonard Peltier #89637–132
  USP Coleman I
  Post Office Box 1033
  Coleman, Florida 33521
  {September 12th}
  
  Sean Swain #243–205
  Warren CI
  P.O. Box 120
  5787 State Route 63
  Lebanon, OH 45036
  {September 12th}
  
  Steven Martin #2015017284
  St. Louis County Jail
  P.O. Box 16060
  Clayton, MO 63105
  {September 22nd}
  Please note that Steven is pre-trial. Do not write about illegal activity and assume that any charges from the state are alleged and falsely accused.
  
  Greg Curry #213–159
  Ohio State Penitentiary
  878 Coitsville-Hubbard Rd
  Youngstown OH 44505–4635
  {September 26th}
  
  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}

The Ex-Worker is back! And just in time, because a potentially historic national prisoner strike is just around the corner. In our 49th episode, we discuss the upcoming September 9th strike to end prison slavery, with an interview with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee. You'll also hear a review of Dan Berger's book Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era; an interview with an anarchist from the UK about the Brexit vote; listener feedback on Spanish revolutionary militias, Comintern, and parallels with Rojava; updates on Kara Wild, a trans anarchist incarcerated in Paris; a letter from trans anarchist prisoner Jennifer Gann; plus news, prisoner birthdays, event announcements, and plenty more. {August 24, 2016}

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• The September 9th National Prison Strike is coming up! To learn more, check out the Support Prisoner Resistance site, in particular the zines Let the Crops Rot in the Fields by the Free Alabama Movement, End Prison Slavery with several articles about emerging prisoner movements, and Incarcerated Workers Take the Lead by Houston IWOC.
• In our interview with Azzurra from the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, she referred to several texts, campaigns, and other resources, including: the Houston IWOC zine about the history of prisoner rebellion since 2008, the Attica Rebellion, Black August, the Flikshop app for sending postcards to prisoners easily and cheaply, Chicano anarchist political prisoner Xinachtli Alvaro Luna Hernandez and his Twitter account, Mumia Abu Jamal's struggle for Hepatits C treatment, Rashid Johnson's article "On the Questions of Race and Racism: Revolutionary National Liberation and Building the United Front Against Imperialism", checking the IWOC website for ongoing updates, Jeremy's Hammond's recent trip to solitary confinement for "encouraging rebellion and criminal activities," and criminologist Nils Christie's article Conflicts as Property about how the state has appropriated our conflicts.
• On the Chopping Block, we reviewed Dan Berger's book Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era. It discusses, among many other things, the life, death, and legacy of George Jackson, whose books Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye can be read in full online.
• We interviewed Jon Active from Active Distribution in the UK about the Brexit vote. If you want to read more anarchist perspectives on it, check out these articles: "Building an anti-fascist culture post-Brexit" by some folks from the Anti-Raids Network, "On the tragic and the farcical of the British referendum" by the Void Network, and anarchist reflections on Brexit on Reddit.
• Please support Kara Wild, a trans anarchist from the US imprisoned in France in connection with recent militant protests in Paris. Here's a video of her in her former dwelling that she built and squatted in in Chicago. We'll post more updates on how to direct support her way as soon as we get them.
• In our listener feedback section, we shared a message from Jennifer Gann, a radical trans prisoner in California, who is requesting support. Check out her website to learn more about her case, or write to her at:
  
  
  J. Gann #E23852
  KVSP-D1–209U
  P.O. Box 5103
  Delano, CA 93216
• We also referenced some other queer and/or trans prisoner solidarity links, including Black and Pink, the Trans Prisoner Day of Action and Solidarity, and a publication focusing on the writings of incarcerated women and trans and gender variant prisoners called Unstoppable.
• Another listener suggested that folks interested in the struggles in Rojava, and their potential parallels with the Spanish Revolution & Civil War, check out these articles titled "The International Brigades and the social revolution in Spain, 1936–1939" and "News of the Spanish Revolution: Anti-authoritarian Perspectives on the Events."
• And if you're feeling down, just remember that in Phenix City, Alabama, an unnamed Taco Bell employee refused to serve four cops who came in to order food - because they were cops. That's what we mean by Fight where you stand!
• Prisoner birthdays this month:
  
  Eric King # 27090045
  FCI Englewood
  Federal Correctional Institution
  9595 West Quincy Avenue
  Littleton, CO 80123
  {August 2nd}
  
  Bill Dunne #10916–086
  USP Lompoc
  3901 Klein Boulevard
  Lompoc, California 93436
  {August 3rd}
  
  Debbie Sims Africa #006307
  SCI Cambridge Springs
  451 Fullerton Avenue
  Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania 16403
  {August 4th}
  
  Dr. Mutulu Shakur #83205–012
  USP Victorville
  Post Office Box 3900
  Adelanto, California 92301
  {August 8th}
  
  Barrett Brown #45047–177
  FCI Three Rivers
  Federal Correctional Institution
  P.O. Box 4200
  Three Rivers, TX 78071
  {August 14th}
  
  Hanif Shabazz Bey (Beaumont Gereau) #5161331
  Seguro Correctional Center
  1252 East Arica Road
  Eloy, Arizona 85131
  {August 16th}
  Address envelope to Beaumont Gereau, address card to Hanif
  
  Maliki Shakur Latine # 81-A–4469
  Shawangunk Correctional Facility
  Post Office Box 700
  Wallkill, New York 12589
  {August 23rd}
  
  Russell Maroon Shoatz #AF–3855
  SCI Graterford
  P.O. Box 244
  Graterford , PA 19426
  {August 23rd}
  
  Ronald Reed #2195311
  Minnesota Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights
  5329 Osgood Avenue North
  Stillwater, Minnesota 55082–1117
  {August 31st}

Welcome back to the Ex-worker! We're eschewing our typical format once again to bring you our second audio zine, a production of Crimethinc.'s new text From Democracy to Freedom. This release coincides with the announcement of an online platform for participating in decentralized reading groups and online discussions on this text as well as the others in the series exploring questions around democracy, and how we relate to it as anarchists. {April 26th, 2016}

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• The full text is available here for reading online or here for printing.
• Original music and sounds courtesy of Counterfeit.

Is Democracy what we’re fighting for, as anarchists? In episode 47 of the Ex-Worker Podcast, a contentious debate between Clara and Alanis on this topic sets the stage for an upcoming, in-depth engagement with the topic of Democracy. In addition, we clean out our backlog of listener feedback, clarifying our trash-talking of both the Bay Area and Adbusters in past episodes, as well as hearing from a listener in Australia about various online resources for finding out what’s happening with anarchist and anti-fascists in the land down under. NYC Anarchist Black Cross provides us with thorough political prisoner updates, and we share a review of the book Huye Hombre Huye, available from Little Black Cart. As always, the episode is bookended with global news updates, plus prisoner birthdays, a whole slew of upcoming anarchist bookfairs and other events and more. {March 16, 2016}

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• New York Anarchist Black Cross (NYC ABC) is doing a fantastic job of keeping us updated on political prisoners and prisoners of war. If you’re looking for a comprehensive overview of political prisoners in the US, you can check out their new Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners. It’s got detailed info on all their cases including up to date mailing addresses plus tips on writing to prisoners; it’s a great overview if you want to support radical prisoners but aren’t sure where to start.
• Dr. Mutulu Shakur, a longtime black liberation prisoner who helped Assata Shakur escape to freedom, was supposed to be released from prison in February… but his release was denied at the last minute. He’ll be facing the parole board later this spring. Here’s a link to a statement he wrote explaining the situation with more info on how to show support. Supporters have also launched a new website at MutuluIsWelcomeHere.com to gather stories describing his the positive impacts he has made and to organize solidarity events leading up to his parole hearing.
• Former Black Panther Maliki Shakur Latine will also be heading to the parole board in April, and he’s collecting parole letters; check out justiceformaliki.org for details.
• Supporters of Brandon Baxter (one of the Cleveland Four, anarchists active in the Occupy movement who were entrapped in an FBI plot) are doing a small fundraising campaign right now to help with costs to get him some visitors in his new digs at FCI Terre Haute in Indiana. Brandon hasn’t received any visitors since his sentencing, and he’s never had a in person visit since his arrest. He’s about 11 hours away from his supporters who plan to visit and they need to raise some money for a car rental. They’re only a couple of hundred bucks short, so even if you can throw in a few dollars it’ll make a difference. Any donations not used for this trip will go into the general fund to support the Cleveland Four getting visitors. To learn more about their case, check out cleveland4solidarity.org or listen to Episode 17 on Conspiracy.
• Eric King, an anarchist from Kansas City accused of an alleged attack on a politician’s office, has accepted a non-cooperating plea deal for a ten year prison sentence; after time served, he’s got eight and a half years left to go. On top of this, the facility where he’s locked up CCA is now on lock-down, and Eric has been put in solitary confinement. Please take a few minutes to send Eric a postcard or letter to remind him that folks are thinking of him.
  
  Eric King 27090045
  CCA Leavenworth
  100 Highway Terrace
  Leavenworth, KS 66048
• Former earth liberation prisoner Daniel McGowan will be in court on March 15th in Washington, DC to support the Center for Constitutional Rights’ case against the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ “Communication Management Units.” The CMUs are experimental prison units that impose severe restrictions on prisoners’ communications, both within the prison and with the outside world. If you’re in the DC area and you want to show some solidarity against a particularly vicious form of repression - one that has primarily targeted Muslims and political radicals - you can find the info on our website.
• On March 23, Tyler Lang has his sentencing hearing for his charges under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act for releasing thousands of animals from a fur farm. If you can be in Chicago, please attend the hearing to show support for Tyler. It is important that on this difficult day for Tyler that he feel surrounded by love and solidarity, and that the judge see that Tyler is part of a community that is there for him. His co-defendant Kevin Olliff was sentenced to three years, which with time serve means he’s only got about three months left to go!
• J ay Chase of the NATO 3 has one more pretrial hearing in Chicago on March 23rd - actually at the same time as Tyler Lang’s sentencing hearing, though in a different courtroom, before he goes to trial on April 11th. Supporters ask anyone to come out who’s able and to continue sending Jay support through letters or mailing softcover books. Stay posted on updates at freethenato3.wordpress.com.
• Solecast, the excellent anarchist podcast we mentioned at the end of the listener feedback, can be found on it’s website here and on iTunes. We highly recommend that you check it out!
• As we mentioned, anarchist in Belgium are facing repression and prison time for alleged property destruction related to a long struggle against the construction of a Maxi-Prison in Haren. A little more information about the struggle and information about how to send money or otherwise show solidarity can be found here.
• Our listener Cut Snake wrote in response to our request to send us a list of blogs and websites that publish news of interest to anarchists and antifascists from Australia. This should keep us all busy for a while:
  DISACCORDS
  ANARCHIST AFFINITY
  MELBOURNE ANTIFASCISTS
  REZZA ANTIFA SLACKBASTARD
  MELBOURNE ANARCHIST CLUB
  FTP ZINE
  MELBOURNE ANARCHIST COMMUNIST GROUP
  BLACK ROSE
  JURA BOOKS
  MUTINY ZINE
• Huye Hombre Huye, the book we reviewed on today’s chopping block, is available from little black cart on their website.
• The material from our theme segment today was inspired by the new 10-part Crimethinc. Feature critiquing democracy. It’s not posted yet, but when it is it’ll be up at crimethinc.com. And don’t forget to stay tuned to the podcast for our upcoming audio version, plus more information about how to plug into reading groups.
• The theme segment also mentioned and quoted from another piece called ‘Breaking with Consensus Reality,’ from the zine Terror Incognita, released in the U.S. around the time of the Occupy movement.
• From March 18th to 20th in Athens, Ohio, Appalachia Resist! will host an action camp in to connect environmental justice and social justice efforts in the Appalachian region. Here’s how they describe themselves: Appalachia Resist! is a small group of rural activists who use direct action as a tactic to resist the fracking industry in our region. We work and live in a rural working class community that is predominant white. We see that struggles for environmental justice and the ongoing fight for racial justice are linked. We want to articulate that link and find concrete ways to work together to push back against a system that brutalizes and sees as disposable the bodies of low income rural people, people of color, gender nonconforming people, women, native, and undocumented people. Mentioning all these people together should not be a way of erasing difference (this is not “all lives matter”) but a way of seeking actual solidarity based on mutual liberation. This is a monumental task, and we are definitely not experts. But we think it’s important and necessary. They’re encouraging regional activists working on racial justice, anti-rape culture, prison solidarity and prison abolition, environmental justice and anti-extraction, and other struggles to take part.
• In Seoul, South Korea, the Anarchist Film Festival of Hannam-dong will open March 24th through 26th at “Take Out Drawing”, an art space standing in defiance of gentrification in downtown Seoul.
• On April 23rd at Stone Mountain, outside Atlanta, Georgia, there’s a big white supremacist rally planned, and anti-fascists around the region are gearing up to shut it down. Check out the website alloutatl.com for more info on the mobilization; it articulates some shared principles that address some of the nuances of diverse anti-racist mobilizations in a particularly thoughtful way.
• The anarchist book fair season kicks off in earnest in April, with book fairs in Zagreb, Croatia on the 8th through 10th; Dublin, Ireland on the 15th and 16th; Sheffield, UK on the 23rd, Oakland, California on the 26th, and Bristol, UK on the 30th, followed by Bern, Switzerland on May 6th and 7th.
• Prisoner birthdays this Month:
  
  Luke O’Donovan #1001372271
  Washington State Prison
  P.O. Box 206
  Davisboro, GA 31018
  (March 2nd)
  
  Reverend Joy Powell #07G0632
  Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
  P.O. Box 1000
  Bedford Hills, NY 10507–2499
  (March 5)
  
  Ruchell Cinque Magee #A92051
  Calif. State Prison, D–5 #1, P.O. Box 4670
  Los Angeles County, Lancaster, CA 93539
  (March 17)
  
  Jaan Laaman #10372–016
  USP Tucson
  P.O. Box 24550
  Tucson, AZ 85734
  (March 21)
  
  Kevin Olliff
  KEVIN JOHNSON 47353–424
  MCC Chicago
  Metropolitan Correctional Center
  71 West Van Buren Street
  Chicago, IL 60605
  (March 27)
  
  Delbert Orr Africa #AM4985
  SCI Dallas
  1000 Follies Road
  Dallas, PA 18612
  (April 2)
  
  Charles Sims Africa #AM4975
  SCI Dallas
  1000 Follies Rd.
  Dallas, PA 18612
  (April 2)

What do anarchists around the world think is in store for the new year? In Episode 45, we began our 2015 year in review, focusing on the US. In this episode, we share reflections on developments in 2015 and from anarchists in Chile, Finland, Brazil, Korea, Colombia, Czech Republic, and Rojava. There are also discussions about developments in fascism and anti-fascism, with reports from the UK and Australia, and an analysis by Gulf Coast anarchists of the environmental movement’s supposed "victory" over the Keystone XL pipeline in November. On the Chopping Block, we review the latest issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, the journal of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, on the theme of "Justice." Long term black liberation political prisoner Herman Bell discusses his upcoming parole hearing, and we share plenty of news, including some reflection on a new round of revolts in Tunisia, plus prisoner birthdays, events, listener feedback, and more. {February 11, 2016}

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• On the Chopping Block, we reviewed the latest issue (Number 28, on "Justice") of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, the journal published by the Institute for Anarchist Studies. You can order it through AK Press; you can also find them on Facebook, though you know how we feel about that.
• Our friends at the North American anarchist news website It's Going Down have announced plans to produce a print magazine! Check out their Kickstarter page if you want to show them some support.
• Former Black Panther and long term political prisoner Herman Bell is up for parole in February. Please check out this info from his support site about how to help with his parole hearing, including an online petition.
• Here's Glenn Greenwald's editorial critiquing the notion that internet encryption is responsible for the Paris terror attacks by the Islamic State.
• The report we shared on Rojava came to us from a group of anarchists and internationalists from Central Europe working for liberation in Kurdistan. If you're interested in reading more, CrimethInc. previously published a longer interview piece from this group titled "From Germany to Bakur: European Anarchists on the Kurdish Struggle".
• To learn more about the Guarani resistance in the state of Sao Paulo, mentioned in the report on 2015 resistance in Brazil, visit yvyrupa.org.br.
• Our friends who reported on the so-called "victory" over the Keystone XL pipeline sent links to some of the ongoing ecological resistance happening along the Gulf Coast, including folks fighting a massive 42" LNG export pipeline whose route from West Texas to Mexico cuts through Big Bend National Park - visit Defend Big Bend and the Big Bend Conservation Alliance; and the environmental justice group in Mobile, AL called MEJAC that is fighting an oil storage tank farm that would directly impact the historic community of Africa Town.
• In terms of ecological resistance coming up this year, there's the Prison Ecology Project's gathering coming up June 11-13 in the Washington D.C. area, focused on building around the intersection of incarceration and the environment. There's also a struggle brewing against a new federal prison slated to be built on a former mountaintop removal site in Eastern Kentucky. And the Earth First! Winter Organizer's Conference is taking place February 10th-15th on Chumash territory outside Santa Barbara, California.
• Please take a moment to support Jared "Jay" Chase of the NATO 3! You can attend his court date on February 18th in Chicago, follow his case on Twitter, Facebook, or the NATO 3 support page. You can also write to Jay at:
  
  Jared Chase M44710
  P.O. Box 99
  Pontiac, IL 61764
  
  Here's an announcement from supporters about the court date:
  Pack the court for Jay Chase
  Thursday, February 18, 9 AM
  Cook County Criminal Courthouse
  2600 S California Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60623
  
  The presiding Judge had a sick day on 2.3 so Jared "Jay" Chase now has a pre-trial hearing on February 18th at 26th and California in Room 303. He is being targeted by the same prosecutor (Anita Alvarez) he faced during the NATO 3 trial for alleged assault charges pinned on him by guards while he awaited trial for two years back in 2012-2014. These same guards were allowed to testify against him during the NATO 3 sentencing in a somewhat successful attempt to bring a harsher sentence and now they will likely testify against him in this case . . . This trial is not just about a few extra years being tacked on to his current sentence which is coming to an end in May. The State has made it very clear through this obviously vindictive prosecution that they want to ensure Jay lives out his days in their cage.
  
  Please be there and show the State that we stand with Jay and let Jay know that we have not forgotten him or his struggle. He needs our love and support as he stands in defiance of this ongoing persecution.
• Upcoming prisoner birthdays: Veronza Bowers, Jr. 35316-136
  USP Atlanta
  Post Office Box 150160
  Atlanta, Georgia 30315
  {February 4th}
  
  Kamau Sadiki (Freddie Hilton) #0001150688
  Augusta State Medical Prison, Building 13A-2 E7
  3001 Gordon Highway
  Grovetown, Georgia 30813
  Address envelope to Freddie Hilton, address card to Kamau
  {February 19th}
  
  Shaka Cinque (Albert Woodfox) #72148
  West Feliciana Parish Detention Center
  Post Office Box 2727
  St. Francisville, Louisiana 70775
  Address envelope to Albert Woodfox, address card to Shaka
  {February 19th}

In our first episode of the new year, the Ex-Worker looks back over 2015 and its highlights, lowlights, and everything in between. We summarize some of the year’s key news developments, including tech developments and struggles around gender, anarchist publishing and media, a hilarious look at mass media coverage of anarchism, and our reflections on the last year of the podcast itself and our new year’s resolutions. You’ll also hear some analysis of some of the important themes within anarchism and revolutionary struggles in 2015, including an extended discussion on identity and solidarity, a review of the AK Press anthology “Taking Sides”, and reflections on our relationship to mass movements. The anarchist news website “It’s Going Down” contributes their end of year thoughts, a new project called “The Spaces Between” sets out to document US anarchism outside of its major urban hotspots, and a supporter offers an important update on NATO 3 prisoner Jared “Jay” Chase. We also received a number of detailed and inspiring year in review reports from anarchists around the world … but we’ll save those for our next episode.

In our 44th episode of the Ex-worker, and our final episode of 2015, we bring you a live audio recording from the last stop of the recently wrapped-up To Change Everything tour, an international panel discussion featuring stories and lessons from participants in some of the better and lesser known uprisings of the last few years. In two months and just over 50 stops, the featured speakers—hailing from Slovenia, Brazil, the Czech Republic and the U.S.—presented their perspectives on topics ranging from the common pitfalls of making demands, the rise of nationalism and fascism, and the importance of solidarity in the face of state repression. Stay tuned to the end of the episode where we propose some ideas for maintaining some of these valuable, face-to-face connections that have been made while on the tour. In addition, we’re releasing this episode in conjunction with the full tour report-back, so make sure you check that out as well.

On November 13, 2023, demonstrators in southern California blockaded a facility of Raytheon, a defense contractor, in solidarity with the Palestinians on the receiving end of the bombs that it produces. They managed to block the facility for more than seven hours, supported by waves of hundreds of activists joining the action, and succeeded in shutting down operations for the day. This episode offers an audio version of How They Stopped Work at the Raytheon Facility: Report on a Day of Blockading, published on November 15th. Participants summarize how the action was organized and unfolded, police responses, the background of direct actions against the war machine and mobilization in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and reflections for future resistance. {November 25, 2023}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:37}
  • The Action {3:25}
  • Background {8:39}
  • Going Forward {11:56}
  • Outro/PSA {12:38}

• This episode offers an audio version of How They Stopped Work at the Raytheon Facility: Report on a Day of Blockading, published on November 15th.

• For evaluations of direct action strategies towards Palestinian solidarity, see our previous articles and episodes "Shutting Down the Port of Tacoma: Reflections from the Salish Sea," also available as Episode 101 of the Ex-Worker; and "Strategizing for Palestinian Solidarity: Expanding the Toolkit From Demands to Direct Action," also available as Episode 99.

• Our coverage of the war in Palestine so far includes "From the Galilee to Gaza—A Voice From Palestine" – also available as Episode 98 – and ""A Nuclear Superpower and a Dispossessed People": An Anarchist from Jaffa on the Escalation in Palestine and Israeli Repression". For further background, see "A Coup d'État in Israel? The Bitter Harvest of Colonialism" (March 27, 2023) – also available as Episode 92 of the Ex-Worker - "The Revolt in Haifa: An Eyewitness Report" (2021), and "Contemporary Israeli Anarchism: A History" (2013).

• For classic strategic analysis, you can also read more about why we don't make demands and what we mean by direct action.

One of the major news stories of 2015 has been the flow of hundreds of thousands of migrants from Syria and beyond into Europe, and the social and political crises this has precipitated. In this episode, we'll take a look at Europe's so-called refugee crisis from an anarchist perspective. To do that, we adopt a "mix tape" format, pasting together excerpts from a variety of sources to offer an impressionistic look at how and why people move across the world, the barriers thrown up by states to impede and control them, and popular resistance against the system of national borders. We begin with reflections on borders from the CrimethInc. Contradictionary, To Change Everything, and past Ex-Worker episodes, and continue with excerpts from interviews with No One Is Illegal activist Harsha Walia, author Vijay Prashad, and a Swiss anarchist active in migrant solidarity struggles in Europe, as well as essays from an activist convergence against climate change, Calais Migrant Solidarity, and Mask Magazine; and conclude with reflections on the Islamic State attacks in Paris from the CrimethInc. blog. You'll also hear updates on anti-anarchist repression in Spain and anti-government demonstrations in South Korea, a report-back from the Rebel! Rebuild! Rewild! action camp in eastern Canada, and an announcement for a new prisoner publication, plus news, upcoming events, and more.

In this episode of the Ex-worker, we take another spin around the world, bringing you several short features focusing on various aspects of the global struggle against domination. We'll share an interview with a Finnish anarchist, who tells us about an anti-nuclear struggle, a university occupation in Helsinki, and the response to refugees in Finland, and how anarchists have taken part in all of these. We'll also hear statements from two Turkish anarchist collectives about the recent massacre of peace demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey. There's also an update on repression from the Hambacher Forest occupation, a text from the streets of Santiago analyzing last month's demonstrations against the anniversary of the coup by dictator Augusto Pinochet, and a report on the hunger strike of anarchist prisoner Evi Statiri in Greece—along with plenty of news, upcoming events, and more.

In this episode, the Ex-Worker explores connections between anarchism, repression and resistance across the world in countries that rarely appear in the radical limelight. We share an interview with an Anarchist Black Cross chapter in Belarus, discussing the president's recent release of anarchist political prisoners; interview a Czech anarchist about "Operation Fenix" and recent entrapment cases and terrorism charges leveled at anarchists there; and provide more context to last episode's call to flag-burning action from South Korean anarchists by examining the historical and political contexts of the flag for Korean radicals. We also discuss the Suruc massacre and developments among Kurdish struggles in Turkey and Syria, and expand our ongoing discussion of the concept of "terrorism" through the lens of a court ruling about gangs in El Salvador. Listener thoughts on Zeitgeist, conspiracy theories, and small-town anarchism, debunking the myth of "cops under attack" since the emergence of Black Lives Matter, and an announcement of the CrimethInc. "To Change Everything" US tour top off our usual collection of global news updates, prisoner birthdays, event announcements, and more. {September 15, 2015}

It's been a year since rage over Michael Brown's murder catalyzed an anti-racist and anti-police rebellion that spread from Ferguson around the country. How can anarchists interpret the trajectory of the struggles against white supremacy that have unfolded over the last year? In Episode 40, we discuss the current state of police violence and both institutional and autonomous white supremacy, alongside an analysis of how anti-racist and anti-police resistance developed from Ferguson to Baltimore to South Carolina. A listener weighs in on the risks of militarism, from the Iron Column in the Spanish Civil War to the militias in Rojava today. Comrades from Korea share updates on state repression and issue an exciting call for international solidarity, and Clara and Alanis discuss the politics of the term ''terrorism'' and how to undertake assertive resistance to state repression without resorting to sports metaphors. {September 3, 2015}

In the latest episode of the Ex-Worker, we continue our discussion of the unfolding social revolution in the autonomous Kurdish territories of Rojava. Building on our coverage in Episode 36, we share two interviews themed around international solidarity with the struggle for autonomy and the fight against ISIS. In the first, a member of Rojava Solidarity NYC, the group of American anarchists that produced the book "A Small Key Can Open a Large Door", discusses democratic confederalism and the council system in the cantons, compares and contrasts the Zapatista uprising with the Rojava revolution, and describes the solidarity projects they've undertaken and what's at stake for anarchists in our response to the events in Kurdistan. In the second, a member of the Turkish anarchist group Social Insurrection discusses his experience fighting with the United Freedom Forces militia. We address some critiques of the revolutionary structures in Rojava as well as our coverage of them and trace the emergence of international solidarity brigades. A member of Antifa International announces the formation of an International Anti-fascist Defense Fund, and we share info about several recently released anarchist publications. Our discussion of the news takes on Obama's sudden transformation into a prison reform advocate, indigenous resistance to profiteering off alcoholism, and the outing of a corporate infiltrator into the animal rights movement, while our indignant coverage of Syriza's entirely predictable betrayal of Greek social movements in their EU bailout austerity proposal concludes with a helpful diagnosis of "The Five Stages of Leftism". {July 27, 2015}

How do anarchists organize outside of major cities? In Episode 38 of the Ex-Worker, we offer a profile of anarchism in Lake Worth, a small coastal town in southern Florida with a surprisingly active and vibrant culture of resistance. Participants in the Everglades Earth First!, the Earth First! Journal, the South Florida Prison Books Project, the former Night Heron Infoshop, and Prison Legal News discuss the many radical projects that operate out of Lake Worth. We even hear from a former anarchist elected official discussing the contradictions and possibilities of that position! The episode also includes a CrimethInc. tour announcement, feedback from listeners about online crypto-anarchism, appeals for solidarity, plenty of news from all over the world, and more.

In this episode, the Ex-Worker offers an in-depth profile of the struggle to defend the Hambacher Forest. In the Rhineland coal country of western Germany, a group of angry locals, environmentalists, anarchists and squatters have converged to challenge the destruction of one of the region's oldest forests by the energy giant RWE's brown coal mining. In these moving interviews recorded live in the Hambacher Forest in spring 2014, Clara gets a tour of the occupation and discusses the recent history of actions and broader political context. Through insightful and often hilarious informal conversations, the occupiers point out distinctive features of the forest, show the gritty and frequently comical day to day realities of squatter life, discuss their personal motivations for resisting the destruction of the forest, and offer poignant insight into the logic of resistance as a way of life. The episode concludes with recent updates from the occupation, ways to participate and show solidarity, and reflections on its significance for radicals across the world.

The Ex-Worker is back! We may have taken a break, but social struggles and resistance across the world have not. In this episode, we focus on the unfolding social revolution in Rojava or western Kurdistan, where an ambitious set of political, economic, and military experiments are transforming the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. In the borderlands of Turkey and Syria, self-organized militias have successfully opposed the Islamic State while challenging gender oppression and securing autonomy for an emerging stateless society. Interviews with supporters from the Turkish group "Revolutionary Anarchist Action" (DAF) set the stage, complemented by a Kurdish refugee and activist's reflections on the role of women's resistance to patriarchy. We also review "A Small Key Can Unlock a Large Door," a recently released anthology of texts describing the Rojava revolution, and continue our yearly tradition of a lively report of May Day actions across the globe. We also respond to a variety of listener feedback, with discussions of the Ross Ulbricht case, anarchist parenting, and how even spambots are impacted by recent revolutionary struggles!

Welcome back to the Ex-Worker! In celebration of the second anniversary of the podcast, and the resistance unfolding around the world from Baltimore to Milan and beyond, we’re releasing our first audio zine! CrimethInc.’s ambitious new anarchist outreach project To Change Everything is “a primer for the curious, a polemic for the entrenched, a point of departure for everyone who longs for another world.” So we at the Ex-Worker podcast are contributing an audio version to support the print and video versions circulating across the world. We’ll be back soon with our next regular episode, exploring the unfolding social revolution in Rojava, so stay tuned!

In our 34th episode, we follow themes of repression, security, and resistance through several different short features. In celebration of former Green Scare prisoner Eric McDavid's release after nine years inside, we reflect on the lessons of his case for our efforts to resist today. We share part of a recent CrimethInc. essay that assesses the possibilities and limits of whistleblowing, as well as an inspiring statement by Jason Hammond (sibling of incarcerated hacktivist Jeremy Hammond) as he heads to prison for his role in an anti-fascist action. Ramona Africa speaks to us about the MOVE 9 case and the life and death of Phil Africa, and an anarchist from Barcelona gives a report about the recent wave of repression by the Spanish state in Operation Pandora. Listeners weigh in on cable access TV, iTunes, and an insider view on security and entrapment strategies. We conclude with reflections on the lessons to be learned from these various cases and recent events on staying safe in order to be truly dangerous to authority. Plus as usual there are a lot of global news reports, event announcements, prisoner birthdays, and plenty more.

On November 6, 2023, several hundred people showed up at the Port of Tacoma in Washington State to block access to a shipping vessel that was scheduled to deliver equipment to the Israeli military. This episode shares an account and analysis of the action published on November 10th as "Shutting Down the Port of Tacoma: Reflections from the Salish Sea." Participants review the history of port blockades in the Puget Sound, share their experience at the protest, and seek to offer inspiration for continued transoceanic solidarity. {November 23, 2023}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:36}
  • Escalating Resistance {1:41}
  • Drawing on Decades of Port Blockades {4:03}
  • Gathering at the Port {7:23}
  • Evaluation {11:27}
  • Outro/PSA {17:36}

• This episode offers an audio version of Shutting Down the Port of Tacoma: Reflections from the Salish Sea.

• To read more about this action, see the reportback "The Boat That Wasn't Blocked" on Puget Sound Anarchists.

• For background on a previous blockade action in the region, check out Episode 61 on The Olympia Train Blockade of 2017.

• The recent history of port shutdowns in the Northwest includes the Port Militarization Resistance movement blockades of the ports of Olympia and Tacoma to protest against the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in 2006–2009; coordination between Occupy/Decolonize Seattle ILWU port workers in Longview that shut down the Port of Seattle among other ports in 2011–12; the Block the Boat action in 2014; the "Shell No" lockdown in 2015, Shell No. and the Block the Boat delay of an Israeli-operated ship for weeks in 2021.

• Our coverage of the war in Palestine so far includes "Strategizing for Palestinian Solidarity: Expanding the Toolkit From Demands to Direct Action" - also available as Episode 99 of the Ex-Worker; "From the Galilee to Gaza—A Voice From Palestine" – also available as Episode 98 – and ""A Nuclear Superpower and a Dispossessed People": An Anarchist from Jaffa on the Escalation in Palestine and Israeli Repression". For further background, see "A Coup d'État in Israel? The Bitter Harvest of Colonialism" (March 27, 2023) – also available as Episode 92 of the Ex-Worker - "The Revolt in Haifa: An Eyewitness Report" (2021), and "Contemporary Israeli Anarchism: A History" (2013).

• For classic strategic analysis, you can also read more about why we don't make demands and what we mean by direct action.

From the Ukrainian revolution and war with Russia to the Bosnian uprisings, ISIS/Rojava/Kobane conflicts, the Brazilian World Cup protests, anti-police riots in Ferguson and beyond … 2014 was one hell of a depressing, inspiring, roller coaster of a year! For our year in review, we wrote to anarchists around the world to ask them what they thought were the most significant events of the last year and what they anticipate in 2015. Responses came in from correspondents as far off as Brazil, Russia, Columbia, Slovenia, Finland, and Germany, as well as across North America, with reports about 2014 and analysis of the possibilities for resistance in the upcoming year. We also stop to take stock of the last year of the Ex-Worker, and reveal some schemes and dreams for our next year of anarchist podcasting. And as if that wasn't enough, we share an exclusive report on squatting, eviction, and resistance in Prague, an analysis of recent anti-police rioting in Oakland, and discussions on listener feedback about Agency's Ebola article and the police in relation to the state, along with plenty of news, prisoner birthdays, and more. {January 20th, 2015}

Rebellion has erupted around the country in the aftermath of grand jury decisions to allow the murderers of Mike Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York to go free without legal charges. Why did this happen, when authorities knew that this would spark furious protests and international condemnation? To try to understand the persistence of racist police violence, Clara and Alanis delve into the historical roots of capitalism and white supremacy from the origins of European conquest and colonization of the Americas. Along with a survey of resistance and backlash since the grand jury announcements, we share excerpts from the recent feature "The Thin Blue Line is a Burning Fuse," tracing the role of anti-police anger in catalyzing nearly all recent major social upheavals around the globe. Agency, a new anarchist media project, shares an excerpt from an article analyzing the Ebola outbreak and anarchist perspectives on public health. We run through a wide range of news, discuss listener comments on transcripts and international coverage, and even offer a radical holiday song!

Clara and Alanis attended the Carrboro Anarchist Book Fair on November 22nd, 2014, and decided to try an experiment: recording an episode of the Ex-Worker in front of a live anarchist audience! We started off with our usual Hot Wire news, and then interviewed a wide range of participants from the book fair about workshops or presentations they did or projects they represented. Interviewees spoke about a writing project on southern insurrectionary history; the Can Vries eviction and riots in Barcelona, Spain; rethinking prisoner support based on experiences with anti-authoritarian queer and transgender prisoners; a moving letter by Luke O'Donovan sent from prison specifically to be shared at the book fair; an update about an anarchist injured and arrested at a Philadelphia solidarity demonstration; and participants from the New York City Anarchist Black Cross, the Inside/Outside Alliance, and the UNControllables, an anarchist student group.