The Ex-Worker

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.