The Ex-Worker

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