EMERGENCY: Protest on Behalf of Mumia Abu Jamal's LIFE tommorow!

Taken from NYC Independent Media Center
A statement by the Partisan Defense Committee, issued Thursday, March 27, 2008:

“Today the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision upholding Mumia Abu-Jamal’s frame-up conviction. In turning down Mumia’s appeal for a new trial, the Court ordered a new sentencing hearing to decide whether he is again to be sentenced to die or condemned to the living death of life in prison.

The Court’s decision is another slap in the face to all opponents of racist injustice. Recalling the infamous Dred Scott decision, the Court has again declared that a fighter for black freedom like Mumia has no rights that the courts are bound to respect. A former Black Panther Party spokesman, MOVE supporter and renowned journalist, Mumia is an innocent man, framed up for his political beliefs. He should never have spent a day in prison. There must be mass protests, centered on labor’s power, to demand his freedom now.

The PDC and Labor Black Leagues have called protests for tomorrow in different cities. For more information: www.partisandefense.org.”



ALL OUT FOR EMERGENCY PROTEST

Mumia Abu-Jamal Is an Innocent Man!
Free Mumia Now!
Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!

TOMORROW
Friday, March 28
5:00-7:00 p.m.
In front of the Federal Building
Broadway, between Worth & Duane Streets
Manhattan
(4, 5, 6 to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall, or R, W to City Hall, or 1, 2, 3 to Chambers)

Sponsored by the Partisan Defense Committee and the Labor Black League for Social Defense

For more information, call 212-267-1025 or 212-406-4252
partisandefense@earthlink.net
www.partisandefense.org


The PDC is a class-struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defense organization which champions cases and causes in the interests of the whole of the working people. This purpose is in accordance with the political views of the Spartacist League.
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There is immense evidence that Mumia Abu Jamal is innocent, such as a confession by the man who did kill the cop, bullets not matching, and not to mention a rigged trial by an all white jury. Activists of color are always accused/framed of killing cops to further villianize us, and perpetuate the myth that we are "dangerous" and criminal".
Whether you are affiliated with Spartacists or not, come be in solidarity with Mumia

Indigenous Community Siezes Oil Territory

Bad ass. Achuar people occupy Pluspetrol Territory (big oil company); fighting globalization, imperialism, and enviromental destruction.
Unfortunatley, what was peaceful direct action erupted in police violence, where two people were killed and 12 were injured.
But they fought back.

Does this make you want to throw up too?

"Until three years ago, Benjamin Shute was living in Williamsburg, where he kept Brooklyn Lager in his refrigerator and played darts in a league.
Raised on the Upper East Side by a father who is a foundation executive and a mother who writes about criminal justice, Mr. Shute graduated from Amherst and worked for an antihunger charity. But something nagged at him. To learn about food production, he had volunteered at a farm in Massachusetts. He liked the dirt, the work and the coaxing of land long fallow into producing eggplant and garlic.
He tried growing strawberries on his roof in Brooklyn, but it didn’t scratch his growing itch.
And so last week, Mr. Shute could be found here, elbow-deep in wet compost two hours north of New York City, filling greenhouse trays for onion seeds. Along with a partner, Miriam Latzer, he runs Hearty Roots, a 25-acre organic farm."


oh cool, so now hipsters are taking up farming. the article doesn't say, but i wonder what the effects of this are on non trust-fund baby farmers, you know?
and of course, now they grow organic sheep, chicken and cows, so they can eat meat while feeling "exploitation free", because they have happy non-factory farm cows.
That is, witout analyzing the fact that the farm production of animals itself is exploitive and NOT eco-friendly.
It just feels like another extension of green capitalism that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Hell, hipsters leave a bad taste in my mouth in general. which sucks. because at Knox it's a bunch of more or less middle class mostly white kids, so it feels isolating if you dont fit the above description, as well as being a bubble where we do not have to confront these issues. and activism is often limited to within campus. but in the city, there has been such a change since i was 15, i can recall. Like i would go to abc no rio or something and everyone would be form the area. now it's like "i'm here from a summer program at Barnard..."
and fucking Williamsburg, i''m like never setting foot there again, cause everyone looks the same; pale shaggy haired thin ugly outfit. and yeah nothing feels like home.
yet there is soo much shit to do here, and i can understand why they move in but i hate the way they ruin it.

I don't know. does anyone know any cool, radical, diverse, laid back cities out there, that don't have the gross migration of just-out-of-liberal-arts-college hipsters?


yeah i know, i should talk. i am a liberal arts college middle class-background kid. but i don't move into areas because it's a "cool hip area" or because of "the buildings arhcitecture" or to push people out so my middle class friends can move in, when i do move somwhere its because its a place i can afford to live in.
if this meand that i will contribute to gentrification, than i will do my best to ally with my neighbors to fight against rent being raised, people and locally owned businesses being put out and etc.
if one contributes to gentrification than it's a fucking responsibilty to activley fight against it, with yer neighbors who didn't "chooose" to live in that area instead of the suburbs.

NYC ABC Benefit!

****REPOST! FORWARD!****

DEATH TO THE STATE!

A benefit for activists facing charges and political prisoners

brought to you by NYC Anarchist Black Cross Federation

Sunday, March 16th: EARLY-ISH SHOW!
6 pm, at Death By Audio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(49 S. 2nd, L to Bedford or JMZ to Marcy)

WITH! Death Mold: NYC Spore Core. Members of Planned Collapse, ex Oi
Polloi, Dregs

Razor Bois: Hardcore Antifa Punk on tour from Moscow!


Perdition: Ex A.P.P.L.E. Noise Blast


Hipster Holocaust: Hometown Hardcore Heroes


Fucked By The State: Fast and Loud, Political Punk


Vegan treats, zines, and more for sale. All ages, 21+ to drink at bar, No outside booze or drugs.

For the abolition of state repression and domination!

nycabc[at]riseup[dot]net

Criticisms of the Time Square Bombing

So it really bothers me that a lot of the criticism I have heard about the Time Square Bombing have been "oh it benefits the State more because the media gets to smear leftists/anarchists now, as a result and public opinion will be against us."

Um, since when has media and public opinion been "pro-anarchist"?

Like, honestly since when has it been a primary concern to impress the media? No matter how 'peaceful' (which has some how come around to mean docility) we are, the media will ALWAYS keep the image of anarchist being "terrorists" because thats whats benefiting to the state.

And as far as this particular action is concerned, the recruiting station was shut down for a day, that is time and money, the recruiting station has lost. So that, is not benefiting the state.

I support making criticisms of this action via safety of others or whatever, crticism is always good and constructive, but to say "oh the media won't like us, booo on direct action" is bullshit.

Briana Waters Trial

Hung Jury. however, she was found guilty of two counts, being a look out. Each which carry a mandatory minimum of 5 years, so thats 10 years total. Briana Waters maintains her innocence and will likely appeal.

Time Square Military Recruiting Station Bombed

Time Square Military Recruiting Station was bombed at 3:45 in the morning when the building was empty; no one was injured. The Building was shut down.

Police speculate it was done for political reasons. Some point at Grandmothers Against the War, and anti war activists. They also believe it is connected with the May 2005 bombing of the Mexican Consulate in response to the assassination of Brad Will, an anarchist activist.

Mayor of NYC Mike Bloomberg says "Whoever the coward was that committed this disgraceful act on our city will be found and prosecuted to the full extent of the law," he said. "We will not tolerate such attacks. .... People are going about their business. They are not intimidated."
But really, those pig motherfuckers have no idea who did it.

so apperantly I'm not the only one who thinks so too...

excellent article on Green is the New Red
by Will Potter on the Seattle Arson and the media's effect on the Briana Waters' Trial.

The jury is currently divided on Briana Water's trial. For those not familiar with Briana Waters she is a environmentalist that has been accused by snitches (who get shortened sentences by implicating her) of having a role in an ELF arson in the Center of Horticulture in the University of Washington. She is pleading innocent and facing a minimum of 35 years in prison. statement made by the Olympia Civil Liberties Union:
"One thing that is certain to those close to the case is that the arson Monday has only damaged Briana's chances of getting a fair verdict. The corporate media have consistently pointed out how curious the timing of the arson is, with the "UW Ecoterror Trial" still going on, further linking Briana with a shadowy ELF underground in the minds of the public. Anyone should have been able to predict the negative impact of an action like this on Briana's trial, and that just makes this whole event even more frustrating.

There are many reasons to view this fire and it's motivations as suspicious, and there is not yet any evidence that it was actually based on environmental motivations. The vast majority of arsons in this country are caused for run-of-the-mill reasons, and fraud or financial reasons are some of the biggest. The media seem all too happy to jump to conclusions about the people who started those fires based on the most preliminary investigations. Also there have often actions by agent provocateurs during political trials throughout history."

Anti-Racist/ Feminist Zine

so i took like a million year hiatus from making zines.

But I'm back doin' it, slowly but surely...hopefully this will be long term and it won't just be an incomplete or pathetic one zine and then me pooping out. any who, recently at my school Knox College, (which believes itself to be the most radical place ever because it was founded by abolitionists) had a really racist article in the school newspaper. Which caused a lot of uproar because the administration failed to address the article and racism on campus (until they finally did). it was the tip of the iceberg because while Knox prides itself in being so diverse and welcoming a lot of students of color are often tokenized by teachers, marginalized by RA's as "troublemakers", and we feel the fucking stares, we hear the fucking comments, that people make. Especially because a lot of (white) people in this school admittingly come from suburban predominantly white backgrounds, when they come to Knox it's like the first time they seen a Black/Latino/Asian/ Middle Eastern/ etc person in their entire life. So FUCKED UP SHIT is said (for example in one ANSO class I had this one kid referred to Black people as "Negroes" because he thought "that's what they like to be called"). And it's especially shitty when people that claim to be activist, vehemently anti-racist, 'liberal', feminist, or radical SAY and DO fucked up things.

So me and my friend Nicole from my Woman Studies class or compiling a zine about feminism., racism. etc for our Action Project. and in light of the current situation at Knox, this is the first thing I wrote:

Tips for Anti-Racist White Allies.
(For those who care about deconstructing privilege and fighting internalized white supremacy)

1. Don’t tell me not to get emotional. I am not a child. I don’t have temper tantrums out of nothing. Getting angry, upset, sad, disappointed over a racist event taking place is a rational, validated reaction. I can’t not take racism personally because it affects me as a human being.

2. Don’t tell me that you have friends who are Black, Latino, Asian, etc to back up your racist views. I don’t care who you’re friends with. If I call you out on being racist, I’m not asking you if you are being racist, I am telling you your being racist.

3. Do go outside your comfort level. I went outside my comfort level by leaving a diverse community back home and going to a predominantly white school. So if I invite you over my Spanish-speaking household, don’t sit there all awkward like a chicken about to lay an egg. Interact with people, ask questions, make conversation, I’ll translate I promise.

4. Don’t make generalizations about other cultures. Um, I don’t care if you took a class, went to a country, or have a friend with the cultural background being discussed. In anthropology 101, first thing you learn is to not pass judgment on other cultures and to adopt the perspective of those within that culture.

5. You are not a feminist if you tell me Black, Latino, Middle Eastern, etc, men are inherently sexist. No, that just makes you a racist. No one is inherently anything! Besides white dudes can be just as sexist as men of color. If anything an argument can be made that sexism is expressed in different ways world wide. Sexism isn’t closed to any cultural group, most societies world-wide currently live in a patriarchy and the US and Europe sure as hell does.

6. We probably won’t fuck you if you fetishize us. Telling Asian women you have “yellow fever”, or commenting on the size of Black men’s penises, doesn’t translate to “I think you as a person, are attractive, I like you.” More so it says, I “view you as a sexual commodity.”

7. There is no such thing as “reverse racism”. First of all the term itself is racist, “reverse racism” means admitting that there is a “right way” to be racist (aka white supremacy). Racism is social, political, economic, systematic institution that is ingrained in our education system, our culture, science, EVERYTHING. This type of institution does not exist against whites as a socially stratified class the way it does to people of color. Prejudice, against anyone and everyone exists. So if you do experience discrimination because of white skin (which does happen, I’m not denying that) it is just that, discrimination/ prejudice. But it’s not founded on an overall system the way racism is.


there is so much more that can go into this list but, hey, zine for Action Project is due the 15th so I gotta hustle.

Military Scum

Marine, good ol' boy David Mortari throws helpless puppy off a cliff

so I guess killing and raping people isn't enough to be brave strong manly men, now they gotta get off killing puppies.

gross.

This is just further evidence that the military trains people to be these torture machine sadists who LIKE IT. See Abu Grhaib, Argentina's disappeared, Pinochet's regime in Chile, Guantanamo Bay, and Nazi Gemrany for further evidence of this. See the Stanford experiment, of people following orders, hurting others because they are told to, thus free of responsibility. No one forces any of these guys to kill and torture. To an extent it's a fucking willing action, choice.

Killing dogs isn't in the Marine job description, they do it because they want to.

Provocatuers maybe?

"The fires were reported at 4 a.m. and more than five hours later flames were still rising from a natural-gas pipeline which crews from Puget Sound Energy were working to control.

The damaged homes, all unoccupied, were included among Seattle Street of Dreams homes in the Quinn's Crossing development near Highway 522. The homes that burned were between 4,200 and 4,750 square feet in size, with prices up to nearly $2 million.

The Seattle Street of Dreams is a 30-year-old home-building home tour, intended to show luxury home-building and trends in architecture, interior design, home technology and landscaping. The destroyed homes were featured last June.

No injuries were reported in the three-alarm fire. A terrorism task force which includes police, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is investigating. Investigators stopped short of blaming the ELF for today's fires, but acknowledged finding the sign with the group's initials."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004256586_webdreamsfire03m.html


So Briana Waters is on trial right now facing a minimum of 35 years and Tre Arrows trial is starting soon and now there is a supposed ELF action- um, coincidence much?

and did the homes belong to every day rich fuckers, or was it the homes of mcdonald, oil guzzling, rich fuckers? I mean i guess there's room for interpretation right there, but it does seem off that they would select random rich people's homes....kinda out of the ordinary.

Esp because people learned form the Jeff Luers trial not to blow shit up when there are people on trial.... it seems really off", for lack of better words.

June Jordan is the Shit

I just read "In Our Hands". Deep. Cried.
She is so right-on, about mamas and "women's work" being what has allowed, their children to go to school, be radicals, be revolutionaries. it reminds me of what Allison Crews from (http://www.girl-mom.com/) said, about teen mamas, "Girls like me have raised presidents. We've raised messiahs and musicians, writers and settlers. Girls like me won't compromise, and we won't fail". Except June Jordan is saying it about black women, latinas, working class women, and how our movements, or free time to think and act, is built on their backs.