The Ex-Worker

This episode is packed to the gills with news! There is antifa activity in Tennessee and folks in the Northwest continue to hold it down against the fascist creep. Solidarity for Afrin spreads and an inspiring model to fight ICE raids emerges out of Koreatown, Los Angeles. We offer some analysis about the school shooting in Parkland, FL and interview both an anarchist attending the student led rallies there and an anarchist author who’s written about gun control. There is a short update on the repression Florida prisoners are enduring due to Operation Push. Walter Bond is in need of support and we have some good news about accused confederate statue topplers in Durham, NC. To wrap things up, there are loads of upcoming events, so stay tuned until the end! {February 21, 2018}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:00}
  • Headlines {1:25}
  • Parkland school shooting & interviews {11:30}
  • Repression Roundup {25:40}
  • Prisoner Birthdays & Next Week’s News {29:55}
• Antifascists in Washington, D.C. are calling for protests this Saturday, February 24 against a fancy alt-right dinner.
• This weekend, February 23 to the 26, the Earth First! Winter Rendezvous will take place near Kiln, Mississippi. There will be workshops, trainings, and movement building.
• J20 support resources:
  • J20 Legal Defense Fund
  • Twitter
  • Fed book
  • An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful “do”s and “don’t”s
  • Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained
• Other anarchist shows mentioned in this Hotwire:
  • The Ex-Worker #62: Support, Healing, and Redefining Resistance—2017 in Review, Part II
  • The Hotwire #7
  • The Hotwire #12
  • An audio account on It’s Going Down about the ongoing #OperationPush prison strike in Florida
• CrimethInc. texts mentioned in this Hotwire:
  • What We Need from You How You Can Help with CrimethInc. Projects
  • Escaping Washington for Freedom (Also, check out this informative Twitter thread about why every single American president was a scumbag.)
  • Immigrants Welcome stickers
  • Borders: The Global Caste System posters
  • No Wall They Can Build
• CrimethInc. is taking their new book From Democracy to Freedom on tour in the Midwest in March! Here at the dates:
  • March 7: Pittsburgh, PA
  • March 8: Morgantown, WV
  • March 9: Cleveland, OH
  • March 10: Bowling Green, OH
  • March 11: Chicago, IL
  • March 12: Bloomington, IN
  • March 13: Carbondale, IL
  • March TBD: St. Louis, MO

  If you’d like to arrange a presentation in your town or at your university, just contact rollingthunder@crimethinc.com.

• Legal fundraiser for Scott Warren, a humanitarian aid worker on the border who is now facing charges of human trafficking in retaliation for his solidarity work.
• Daniel McGowan’s article on the restrictive Communications Management Units, also called “little Guantanamos.”
• Call in to support Joy Powell, a prisoner being retaliated against for exposing conditions at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Call the superintendent at 914–241–3100. You can find a sample call-in script here.
• Write to recently transferred Animal Liberation Front political prisoner Walter Bond:

  Walter Bond
  37096–013
  FCI Terre Haute CMU
  PO Box 33
  Terre Haute IN 47808

• Political prisoner birthdays:

  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 19}

  Oso Blanco (Byron Chubbuck)
  07909–051
  USP Victorville
  Post Office Box 3900
  Adelanto, California 92301
  Address envelope to Byron Chubbuck, address card to Oso Blanco {February 26}

• For a good introduction to writing prisoners, check out this guide from New York City Anarchist Black Cross.
• CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS

  Last week we reported that Michael Foster, the valve turner who temporarily halted the flow of tar sands oil in TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline in October 2016, was sentenced to three years, but in fact he is only serving one. Thanks to the listener who caught that, and we’ll still post Michael’s address once we have it so you can write him letters.