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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · 14h

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'Disorganization is Their Weapon, Solidarity is Our Shield: Committing to Principled Collective Defense'

As the federal government flexes its repressive muscles, we must meet intimidation with a broad and principled solidarity.

Disorganization is Their Weapon, Solidarity is Our Shield: Committing to Principled Collective Defense

We live in a perilous moment, one when the specter of a new Red Scare looms closer by the day. But we cannot allow state repression, whether threatened or realized, to achieve its intended aim of demo...

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · 17d

Members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra have helped to organize a speaking tour for Black Panther Party Veterans JoNina Abron-Ervin and Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin in October.

The two will address lessons from their experiences relevant to fighting fascism.

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Driving the Movement: West Coast Events with Black Panther Veterans

We are pleased to announce several events in California with Veterans of the Black Panther Party, JoNina Abron-Ervin and Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, organized in part by members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra. O...

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John Breen @acab.dad · Aug 23

Gonna buy copies of this and hand them out whenever someone says “yeah but anarchists don’t actually have plans, they just want to cause chaos”

Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Aug 23

You can now order physical copies of our program, Turning the Tide, through AK Press! 📗🚩🏴

www.akpress.org/turning-the-...

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Aug 23

You can now order physical copies of our program, Turning the Tide, through AK Press! 📗🚩🏴

www.akpress.org/turning-the-...

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jul 31

Our Bay Area Local and other members in California are spearheading an effort to bring Lorenzo and JoNina Ervin—movement elders, anarchist thinkers, and former Black Panther Party members—to the West Coast for a speaking tour.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · Aug 1

Please support if you can. This is an opportunity for these revolutionary elders to offer some perspective on resistance right now as well as celebrate some recent accomplishments 💕

Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jul 31

Our Bay Area Local and other members in California are spearheading an effort to bring Lorenzo and JoNina Ervin—movement elders, anarchist thinkers, and former Black Panther Party members—to the West Coast for a speaking tour.

chuffed.org/project/1421...

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jul 31

Our Bay Area Local and other members in California are spearheading an effort to bring Lorenzo and JoNina Ervin—movement elders, anarchist thinkers, and former Black Panther Party members—to the West Coast for a speaking tour.

chuffed.org/project/1421...

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · Jul 15

“By engaging consistently in everyday campaigns, members of mass organizations grow their collective confidence and power, enabling them to take on ever bigger fights and ultimately to challenge the very existence of these dominating structures.”

Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jul 14

Debut of a new short-form interview series: Anarchists in the Tenant Movement 🏙️🚩🏴

In this series we will be talking with anarchists organizing in tenant unions around the US. This first installment is with a member of a union in the SF Bay Area.

Anarchists in the Tenant Movement #1 - SF Bay Area

This is the first installment in a new series of serialized interviews that we are calling Anarchists in the Tenant Movement. In this interview, we speak with E, an organizer with the San Francisco Ba...

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jul 14

Debut of a new short-form interview series: Anarchists in the Tenant Movement 🏙️🚩🏴

In this series we will be talking with anarchists organizing in tenant unions around the US. This first installment is with a member of a union in the SF Bay Area.

Anarchists in the Tenant Movement #1 - SF Bay Area

This is the first installment in a new series of serialized interviews that we are calling Anarchists in the Tenant Movement. In this interview, we speak with E, an organizer with the San Francisco Ba...

www.blackrosefed.org

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jul 11

Tomorrow the Boston Local of Black Rose/Rose Negra is hosting a summer social 😎☀️

Register here: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jul 9

Black Rose/Rosa Negra (BRRN) is a multiracial, multigenerational revolutionary political organization with local chapters in cities around the country.

Members strategize together to build fighting social movement organizations

Learn more at: blackrosefed.org

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jul 9

Members in Chicago and other chapters enjoyed participating in @socialismconference.org — we spoke to hundreds of socialists from around the country, shared organizing insights during our cross-sectoral movements panel, and held a libertarian socialist happy hour.

See you next year!

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jul 3

Millions of people thrown off social services while billions upon billions of dollars are unleashed to build one of the largest repressive apparatuses in human history.

There will be unprecedented despair and fury. Our task is to organize it into a weapon of class struggle.

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Jul 3

GOP Budget Bill Slashes Medicaid for Millions, Cuts Taxes for the Rich, Funds ICE at Historic Levels

As we broadcast, the House was soon set to vote on the so-called big, beautiful bill before the July 4 deadline imposed by President Trump. Should the House pass the legislation, the bill would be sent...

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jul 2

Members of the Bay Area Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra and others gathered in Home Depot parking lots around the East Bay today to canvas with information on how to resist ICE raids.

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jun 26

During May and June, members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s Bay Area Local held organizing events in LA, the Bay Area, and Sacramento.

Bringing out more than 175 people, these events aimed to analyze the moment and connect attendees to organizing efforts.

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Black Rose Bay Area Hosts Organizing Events Across California

This is a brief report on a series of public events put on by the California Bay Area Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra in May and June of 2025. You can find the Bay Area Local on their Instagram page: @...

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jun 25

And even if you’re not at the socialism conference, consider joining us for a happy hour directly after our panel at a nearby bar!

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jun 25

We’re excited to be hosting a panel at @socialismconference.org this year in Chicago.

Join us as our members discuss their organizing efforts and how they were able to bring a union, student group, and neighborhood group, into the fight for Palestinian liberation!

More details below ⬇️

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jun 22

War between states means death for the people!
No war on Iran!

We, along with anarchist organizations across the Americas, have written this statement opposing the Israeli-US genocide in Gaza and their new offensive on Iran.

Link to full statement: www.blackrosefed.org/internationa...

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jun 19

Do you have a plan to keep ICE out if they come to your workplace?

Drawing on both workplace and neighborhood organizing experience, Black Rose / Rosa Negra member Keith R. shares steps you can take today to organize against ICE in the workplace.

Organizing to Keep ICE Out of Your Workplace

Do you have a plan to keep ICE out of your workplace? This simple guide can help get you started.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jun 10

"Tenants in Kansas City are declaring victory after eight months on rent strike—the longest such action in the city’s history...an outcome that lends momentum to efforts to adapt labor union strategies for housing fights."

inthesetimes.com/article/rent...

Striking Tenants Withhold Rent for 247 Days and Win

A victory in Kansas City suggests that the tactics of organized labor can work for tenants.

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jun 13

No war on Iran. Israel intends expand its genocidal bloodbath in Gaza into an imperialist war on the entire region.

Social movements in the US must redouble our efforts to bring the US backed war machine to a screeching halt.

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jun 10

Statement from our California Bay Area Local in collaboration with members in Los Angeles and San Diego on the resistance to ICE raids in Southern California.

"To Kick ICE Out Requires Action, To Keep Them Out Requires Organization"

Link: www.blackrosefed.org/kick-ice-out...

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jun 9

How did the Koreatown Popular Assembly develop neighborhood level organization and power to keep ICE out? 🌆✊

Read this interview to find out:

How the Koreatown Popular Assembly Organized Neighborhood Power to Confront ICE

This interview is a reflection on the successes and missteps of the Koreatown Popular Assembly (KPA), an attempt at neighborhood based organizing that existed from 2016-2022 and aimed to confront the ...

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jun 9

Kicking ICE out will require action, keeping them out will require organization.

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