In the age of mass surveillance, how can radicals and dissidents organize effectively? How can we keep ourselves and each other safe from spying, and prevent our efforts from being weakened by electronic disruption?
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Resistance School: Online Anonymity Techniques
A Resistance School workshop.
The internet is a highly surveilled environment. Governments and corporations track our communications and activity online as a way to analyze, influence, and neutralize our resistance movements. Stalkers, fascists, and trolls try to intimidate and threaten us by compromising our anonymity.
We can fight back! Learn how tools like Tor and Tails work, and how to use them to protect your anonymity online.
Jail support training
February 9, 2017 – 7:00 pm
Atlanta, GA
What do you do if your friends and comrades are arrested? Come learn from our experience
- planning for arrests at protests,
- bailing people out of Atlanta jails,
- helping them navigate the court system,
- and more!
The prison industrial complex is a key weapon of the system, so jail support is a crucial part of any movement. It’s a way to show that we can and will take care of each other even in the face of repression.
Prisoner support Meeting and envelope stuffing nite!
Support Prisoner Resistance!
Come discuss prisoner support and help us get out the next Anarchist Black Cross newsletter to 140 prisoners. Refreshments provided.
Support free stores!
Our free store is looking great today, thanks to contributions from a community of people who share extra food, clothes, and whatever else they have available.
For those who don’t know, a free store is a place where everything is available for free. If you have extra things, you can bring them to the free store to share. If you need any of the things there, you can take them. No money or trading is allowed, a free store runs on mutual aid.
Our free store is on our porch, and it works amazingly well because of the community which participates in it. Plenty of people take time to bring donations, because they know their contribution will go directly in the hands of someone who can use it. The free store helps a lot of our poorer neighbors get access to healthy food, which they can share in turn with their friends and family.
Most weeks we circulates between 1/2 and 1 ton of fresh food, provided by donors and volunteers who pick up and transport it. We also see plenty of clothes, books, and other miscellany filter through, brought by neighbors who are moving or getting rid of old stuff.
If you like this idea, you can help out in a few ways:
- Start a free store where you are! If you have access to a publicly accessible room or building, let us know and we can help.
- Volunteer to pick up food donations for our free store. This is a big help. Get in touch and we can let you know when and where pick-ups are scheduled.
- Spread the word and encourage everyone to contribute!
Inauguration Protest Coordination Meeting
There’s a nationwide call for disruption at Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20 in Washington, DC. Let’s organize to travel to DC and answer the call!
Information Security for Radicals
In the age of mass surveillance, how can radicals and dissidents organize effectively? How can we keep ourselves and each other safe from spying, and prevent our efforts from being weakened by electronic disruption?
Street Tactics & Know Your Rights Trainings
We are hosting two Resistance School trainings back-to-back. Come for either or both! Trainings are free and open to everyone except law enforcement. Click for more information
#DisruptJ20: Call for a bold mobilization against the inauguration of Donald Trump
via crimethinc:
On Friday, January 20, 2017, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as President of the United States. We call on all people of good conscience to join in disrupting the ceremonies. If Trump is to be inaugurated at all, let it happen behind closed doors, showing the true face of the security state Trump will preside over. It must be made clear to the whole world that the vast majority of people in the United States do not support his presidency or consent to his rule.
Trump stands for tyranny, greed, and misogyny. He is the champion of neo-nazis and white Nationalists, of the police who kill the Black, Brown and poor on a daily basis, of racist border agents and sadistic prison guards, of the FBI and NSA who tap your phone and read your email. He is the harbinger of even more climate catastrophe, deportation, discrimination, and endless war. He continues to deny the existence of climate change, in spite of all the evidence, putting the future of the whole human race at stake. The KKK, Vladimir Putin, Golden Dawn, and the Islamic State all cheered his victory. If we let his inauguration go unchallenged, we are opening the door to the future they envision.
Trump’s success confirms the bankruptcy of representative democracy. Rather than using the democratic process as an alibi for inaction, we must show that no election could legitimize his agenda. Neither the Democrats nor any other political party or politician will save us—they just offer a weaker version of the same thing. If there is going to be positive change in this society, we have to make it ourselves, together, through direct action.
From day one, the Trump presidency will be a disaster. #DisruptJ20 will be the start of the resistance. We must take to the streets and protest, blockade, disrupt, intervene, sit in, walk out, rise up, and make more noise and good trouble than the establishment can bear. The parade must be stopped. We must delegitimize Trump and all he represents. It’s time to defend ourselves, our loved ones, and the world that sustains us as if our lives depend on it—because they do.
In Washington, DC
DC will not be hospitable to the Trump administration. Every corporation must openly declare whether they side with him or with the people who will suffer at his hands. Thousands will converge and demonstrate resistance to the Trump regime. Save the date. A website will appear shortly with more details. #DisruptJ20
Around the US
If you can’t make it to Washington, DC on January 20, take to the streets wherever you are. We call on our comrades to organize demonstrations and other actions for the night of January 20. There is also a call for a general strike to take place. Organize a walkout at your school now. Workers: call out sick and take the day off. No work, no school, no shopping, no housework. #DisruptJ20
Around the World
If you are living outside the US, you can take action at US embassies, borders, or other symbols of neocolonial power. Our allegiance is not to “making America great again,” but to all of humanity and the planet. #DisruptJ20
Spread the word. Join the fight. #DisruptJ20
Signed,
Agency
CrimethInc. Workers’ Collective
It’s Going Down
subMedia
New York Anarchist Action
The Base
NYC Anarchist Black Cross
Pittsburgh Autonomous Student Network
Pittsburgh Student Solidarity Coalition
NightShade Pittsburgh
Pitt Against Debt
Pitt Students for a Democratic Society
Steel City (A) Team
UNControllables
Antifa Seven Hills
WNC Antifa
Asheville Anti-Racism
Black Rose Book Distro St. Louis
Resonance: An anarchist audio distro
If you endorse this call, sign your name at the bottom of this list and circulate it. Email disruptj20@riseup.net to be included in the above list.
The free store needs a new fridge
The fridge on our porch is slowly dying, and it’s getting to the point where it can’t keep produce fresh for very long. Especially in the summer, the community depends on that fridge to circulate fresh stuff like veggies, milk, yogurt, and prepared food. Without it, otherwise good food rots in the heat.
Do you know where we could get a working fridge, or want to help us get one? Please get in touch. We can pick up!