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Blue Ridge ABC @blueridgeabc.bsky.social · Aug 30

September 21, 4-6pm @firestorm , Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross is holding our next discussion of Orisanmi Burton's "Tip Of The Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt", through the end of Chapter 3
brabc.noblogs.org/reading-group/

BRABC Reading Group – Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · Aug 24

anti-repression groups from different parts of the world have created a solidarity network, 4 of which have accounts on blsky

@abcbelarus.bsky.social
@blueridgeabc.bsky.social
‪@phillyabc.org‬
‪@solidarityapoth.bsky.social‬

learn more about the network & apply on the website:

About Us – Solidarity International

solidarity.international

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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · Aug 24

This week, we share a panel discussion with anarchists from @abcbelarus.bsky.social (Belarus) , Solidarity Apothecary (UK) and Solidarity Zone (Russia) about prisoner support, care work, burnout and sustaining movements

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/08...

line drawing of prison overgrown by nature with the words "TFSR 8-24-25 | Prisoner Support Panel"

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Blue Ridge ABC @blueridgeabc.bsky.social · Aug 18

August 24, 4-6pm at @firestorm.coop, we're discussing the introduction & 1st chapter of Orisanmi Burton's "Tip Of The Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt".
Get the book club discount in-store (but only if you ask in person for it)

brabc.noblogs.org/reading-group/

book cover of "Tip Of The Spear" by Orisanmi Burton featuring a black and white photo into ranges at Attica State Prison during the 1971 Uprising

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Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · Aug 18

NYC media focuses on whether Mamdani should live in rent-stabilized apartment ($2300/month!) instead of why 26,310 NYC rent-stabilized apartments were “vacant but unavailable for rent”

www.thecity.nyc/2024/02/14/r...

Tens of Thousands of Rent-Stabilized Apartments Remain Off the Market During Record Housing Shortage

Landlords kept an estimated 26,000 regulated units offline last year — rekindling a debate about the role of New York’s strict rent laws.

www.thecity.nyc

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Nathan Negation @natanrebelde.bsky.social · Aug 13

Long-running anarchist radio show and podcast @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social, speaks on international anarchist prisoner solidarity efforts.

Final Straw: International Solidarity and the 2025 Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners

Long-running anarchist radio show and podcast The Final Straw, speaks on international anarchist prisoner solidarity efforts. This week, we’re sharing three segments. First up, you’ll hear Yara speak...

itsgoingdown.org

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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · Aug 15

here's our recent transcribed interview about the federation of anti-authoritarian, anti-repression groups, @soli-international.bsky.social & the affiliated 2025 Week Of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners ( #WOSWAP ). A zine version & much more can be found for free at tfsr.media/zines/#Augus...

zine cover of our interview “International Solidarity and the 2025 Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners” featuring the poster of the "International Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners, August 23-30 2025 | https://Solidarity.International" with a collage of cartoons of a prison being attacked by a grandmother with a molotov, a goose, a goat with a hammer, a dog, a cat toppling towers, drones and people dropping banners and leaning out the windows

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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · Aug 16

Patreon supporters can hear an early release of our interview with Malik Muhammad, a 2020 uprising prisoner in Oregon speaking about conditions, organizing behind bars, #BlackAugust and what gives them hope. Check it out!

www.patreon.com/posts/2020-u...

Patreon player featuring sketches of Malik, audio waves and "2020 Uprising Prisoner Malik Muhammad Speaks from Snake River DC in Oregon"

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Aug 10

The Israelis assassinated AJ journalists Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqa along with their team in Gaza after bombing an AJ tent in front of Al-Shifa hospital

Absolute monsters

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Israel murders four Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif

Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

www.aljazeera.com

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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · Aug 10

How thoughtful. How urbane.
The New Yorker not only gave a this monster, this brutal stooge and mechanic of empire a platform in 1998 to muse upon his place in history but is now offering it up again to us. because....

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 9

“I was only an aspirante dictator,” Augusto Pinochet told Jon Lee Anderson in 1998. “I read a lot, especially history. And history teaches you that dictators never end up well.”

The Dictator

Augusto Pinochet is almost eighty-three years old, and justifying his actions, clarifying his place in history, is on his mind.

www.newyorker.com

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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · Aug 10

Yara speaks on @soli-international.bsky.social & #WOSWAP, Ausbruch talks with #RoteHilfe on anti-repression in German speaking countries, the Anarchist Assembly of Biobío with Mesa 8 on art, memory & the Chilean Coup, + Sean Swain on Conspiracy Thought

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/08...

poster of the "International Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners, August 23-30 2025 | https://Solidarity.International" featuring a prison being attacked by a grandmother with a molotov, a goose, a goat with a hammer, a dog, a cat toppling towers, drones and people dropping banners and leaning out the windows + "International Prisoner Solidarity, Red Help in Germany, art and organizing in so-called Chile + Sean Swain on Conspiracy Thought"

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soli-international.bsky.social @soli-international.bsky.social · Aug 7

✊🏽 CALL FOR ACTIONS FOR Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners
👉🏽 23 - 30 August 2025
Join with actions, letter writing, lectures, banner drop, movie screening, ....
Please send us pictures & reports to share.
❤️‍🔥Until all are free no one is free!

🫵🏽 solidarity.international
#woswap2025 #WOSWAP

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Blue Ridge ABC @blueridgeabc.bsky.social · Jul 16

Zines by @creativenothing.bsky.social & @crimethinc.com

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Blue Ridge ABC @blueridgeabc.bsky.social · Jul 16

BRABC will gather Sunday July 27th from 4-6pm at @firestorm.coop to discuss two zines, available now behind the counter at Firestorm for free on request. Texts for online reading or printing at brabc.noblogs.org/reading-group/
Starting in August, we'll start Orisanmi Burton's Tip Of The Spear.

zine covers of "It's Safer in the Front" featuring a crowd of people running, and "A Call for New Lines of Conflict" featuring a photo of a burned lorie

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Blue Ridge ABC @blueridgeabc.bsky.social · Jul 10

Support the legal defense of the 11 arrested related to the noise demo outside Prairieland ICE prison in DFW around July 4th, some facing state level terrorism charges:
givesendgo.com/SupportDFWPr...

URGENT
Funds needed for protestors in TX facing serious repression
givesendgo.com/SupportDFWProtestors

WHAT WE KNOW
On the night of July 4th, local police arrested 10 people outside the ICE Prairieland detention facility in Alvarado, Texas. We don't know all of the circumstances leading to the arrests. We do know that popular outrage and resistance to deportations is growing across the country. The Trump administration has also consistently shown that it lies and distorts facts to advance their political narratives and justify the increase in brutal police action.
givesendgo.com/Support DFWProtestors

The 10 people arrested on July 4th currently face severe state and federal charges aimed not only at ruining their lives but signaling an authoritarian criminalization of dissent and protest against ICE.
Police have continued investigating and harassing defendants' loved ones and friends. Defendants have now been in jail for 5 days putting employment and housing at risk.
givesendgo.com/Support DFWProtestors

IMMEDIATE ASK
The DFW Support Committee needs to urgently raise at least $20,000 to cover legal fees and living expenses for all those arrested. Some defendants are still without legal representation because of the lack of funds. Others have rent that needs to be paid and children that need supporting.
Please donate to the GiveSendGo fundraiser. The link is at the bottom of each slide. You can also help by holding fundraisers and sharing this fundraiser with family, friends, coworkers and through social media. Updates will be posted on the GiveSendGo fundraiser.
givesendgo.com/SupportDFWProtestors

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Blue Ridge ABC @blueridgeabc.bsky.social · Jul 4

4 years since the #KillTheBill protests, Bristol Defendant Solidarity continues to support prisoners. Donations help cover defendants’ food, travel & accommodations on court days, access to counselling for trauma endured at the hands of police & other essential support needs.
chuffed.org/project/bds

"Bristol Defendant Solidarity" People holding a banner reading "Free The Prisoners | Drop The Charges"

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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · Jun 1

Moira Meltzer-Cohen, a lawyer with the @nlgnews.bsky.social, addresses questions of changes in peoples rights and risks in the USA with the police, searches, borders and other topics

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/06...

still from an NLG video featuring two lawyers talking over tea with the words "shut the fuck up" in subtitle below

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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · Jun 21

Statement by a New Afrikan political prisoner at CSP-Lancaster, written on April 2, 2025, weeks into CDCr’s previous statewide lockdown.
Reissued and shared by them in solidarity with the current hungerstrike at SVSP against the lockdowns.

oaklandabosol.org/2025/06/21/a...

A Call for Community Support on the Issue of Domestic Torture

Statement by a New Afrikan political prisoner at CSP-Lancaster, written on April 2, 2025 approximately, weeks into CDCr’s previous statewide lockdown. Reissued and shared by them in solidarit…

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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · Jun 23

what a sleazy bunch of cowards just punching someone's dad in a parking lot while they furtively glance around embarrassed in their stupid gaiter masks

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 22

“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”

ktla.com/news/local-n...

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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · Jun 25

Outside fam in Alabama laying out exactly what is going down inside St. Clair Correctional Facility:

"... psychological and physical abuse used as retaliation or control....
What is unfolding at St. Clair is not a matter of security or policy — it is a campaign of deliberate dehumanization."

Torturous Segregation Conditions

The inhumane conditions of segregation units at St. Clair are under Ellington’s direction. These are clear violations of the Eighth Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment), and they underscore the psychological and physical abuse used as retaliation or control.

The segregation unit at St. Clair Correctional Facility has devolved into a site of deliberate psychological and physical torment, operating outside constitutional bounds and basic human decency.

Under the leadership of Associate Commissioner Ellington, conditions in segregation include:

No ventilation, leaving men to suffer extreme temperatures, stagnant air, and health hazards.
No schedule or regular “ice call”, despite a memo requiring each shift to provide hydration at designated times.
No outdoor time or exposure to sunlight for days or weeks at a time — a clear violation of minimum exercise standards.
No access to reading material — including books, magazines, newspapers, or personal tablets.
No showers, even while men are confined in cells with overflowing toilets and standing water contaminated with feces.
No hygiene products, contributing to infection, disease, and further degradation.
No legal or spiritual support, as communication and movement are strictly limited.
Inmates are left naked or in soiled clothes, without cleaning supplies or laundry access for extended periods.

These conditions are not incidental or caused by staffing issues — they are systematically enforced and amount to psychological torture and sensory deprivation.

What is unfolding at St. Clair is not a matter of security or policy — it is a campaign of deliberate dehumanization.

Through prolonged lockdowns, the destruction of rehabilitative structures, and the brutal conditions in segregation, the Alabama Department of Corrections, under Ellington’s direction, is violating the basic human rights of incarcerated individuals and creating a hostile, unsustainable environment for staff.

This is not a facility in need of reform — it is a system in need of federal intervention.

- FAMF

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Blue Ridge ABC @blueridgeabc.bsky.social · Jun 21

Both zines are printed and available behind the counter at Firestorm if you ask for them, or find the pdfs at brabc.noblogs.org/reading-group/

BRABC Reading Group – Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross

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Blue Ridge ABC @blueridgeabc.bsky.social · Jun 21

This Sunday, join BRABC at @firestorm.coop from 4-6pm to discuss two zines relating to Palestine & prisoner support: “Consciousness Molded or the Re-identification of Torture” by Walid Daqqa; & “An interview with Orisanmi Burton” published on The New York War Crimes