Archive for December, 2010
December 15, 2010 at 9:39 am · Filed under From the Trenches, posted by b. traven
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Nearly five months after being charged with conspiracy and other indictable offences during Toronto’s G20 protests, both members of the southern Ontario hip-hop group Test Their Logik had their charges stayed and release conditions withdrawn. Although the prosecutor originally said the government would be seeking jail time, it turned out they had very little evidence and didn’t feel capable of bringing the case before a judge.
While asking to “stay” the charges, a move which still gives them a year to look for new evidence and re-open the case, the prosecutor told the judge, “We know they did it but we don’t have the proof.” This is a ridiculous assertion given that the main reason they were targeted and warrants were sent out for their hip-hop aliases is their music video “Crash The Meeting” that is still circulating on youtube.
There were over a thousand arrests and hundreds of charges brought against G20 resisters on little to no evidence. Like most charges relating to the G20, the charges against Testament and Illogik were targeted political repression not even perfunctorily disguised as an attempt to enact justice. The picture of Canada as a police state gone mad is growing ever clearer.
Unfortunately, though hundreds have had their charges dropped or stayed, several dozen still face very serious charges and need support urgently. It is more important than ever to donate to the legal defense of those still facing charges, and to show solidarity by any and all means. All proceeds from the Test Their Logik benefit album offered here two months ago will go to current G20 defendants.
More after the break.
December 12, 2010 at 1:55 pm · Filed under Hot Off the Presses, posted by pfm
In the midst of new outbreaks of social conflict, we are patiently completing a project we began over eight years ago: the distribution of hundreds of thousands of copies of the anarchist primer Fighting for Our Lives.
This printing of 50,000 copies brings the total to 650,000 copies over the course of five printings. We’ve also opted for whiter, brighter, heavier paper, making this printing the highest quality yet. Fighting for Our Lives is still free in every order from CrimethInc. Far East, or to anyone who requests one.
Projects like this may seem inconsequential next to head-on confrontations with the state, but they are part of the long-term outreach work that can ensure these confrontations produce liberation rather than new forms of oppression. Rest assured that while we finish carrying out old commitments like this one, we are also preparing new offensives more ambitious than anything the world has seen from us yet. Things are heating up and we intend to be in the front lines.
A story about Fighting for Our Lives in action.
Announcements about the previous printings of Fighting for Our Lives: third printing, fourth printing.
December 3, 2010 at 10:35 am · Filed under Read All About It, posted by peter p
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On Saturday, November 13, a new and experimental infoshop in Winona, MN, opened it’s doors to the public. The Burrow is one of the first new infoshops to open since the controversial essay “5 Steps to Reviving Your Failing Anarchist Bookstore“, and at a time when long-standing infoshops are throwing in their towels, this account offers insight into the new models still unseen.
This story begins where our coverage of small-town organizing left off in Rolling Thunder #7. What follows is not only an account and recipe for a new type of space, but a possible intermediate step in anarchist organizing in long-term communities.
Read on after the break.
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