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Does anyone know of any online/virtual events for Black August this year?
Hoping to find a virtual gathering that's focused on basic info and history, especially, for a local guide.
Boosts for reach welcome!
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Does anyone know of any online/virtual events for Black August this year?
Hoping to find a virtual gathering that's focused on basic info and history, especially, for a local guide.
Boosts for reach welcome!
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Does anyone know of any online/virtual events for Black August this year?
Hoping to find a virtual gathering that's focused on basic info and history, especially, for a local guide.
Boosts for reach welcome!
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Does anyone know of any online/virtual events for Black August this year?
Hoping to find a virtual gathering that's focused on basic info and history, especially, for a local guide.
Boosts for reach welcome!
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Does anyone know of any online/virtual events for Black August this year?
Hoping to find a virtual gathering that's focused on basic info and history, especially, for a local guide.
Boosts for reach welcome!
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Black August 2026: Call for Month of Action and Propaganda for Comrades Lupi, Tortuga and Belén
«There is no fight without blood, without prison, without clandestinity, without dead… you always have to have this clarity.
(…) Talking about death and not cornering in the grief, talking about the lives of those who left, knowing that they know their blood, we have been watering the path of the struggle and continue is the best tribute to all those who are no longer there… the rest are just excuses.»
-Marcelo Villarroel, anti-authoritarian prisoner.
(Interview published as part of the call for a Black August 2025).«In most of the days of violence (…) brochures or canvases related to anarchist causes have been exhibited.
In yesterday’s demonstration, hooded people held a banners with the legend ‘Black August’ and the name of 3 people linked to violent criminal acts, and even to the placement of explosive devices.»
-The bastard J. Bellolio.
(Referring to incendiary action from the Lastarria high school on 08/13/2025).In August 2024, three anarchist comrades died in different circumstances suddenly and accidentally, after the events, we set ourselves the challenge of multiplying their ideas, their combat stories, those genuine contributions that in life they assumed with commitment, solidarity, seriousness and will.
In this way, we again extend a call for a Black August. We want Luciano Balboa «Lupi», Luciano Pitronello «Tortuga» and Belén Navarrete to continue present in the action and propaganda, as were the responses made last year by anonymous and related in different territories.
This call arises in turn with the intention of (re)vitalising anarchist campaigns, in times of fierce and devastating advances of capital, harsher condemnations against our comrades who have been imprisoned, others in search and capture and power trying to swallow our lives in different ways day by day. Not giving up, not stopping, continuing against all odds are and will always be the worthy options to take.
From different corners, places and prisons, comrades show us that it is always possible and that with what they have at hand, they seek the destruction of this world as we know it, along with its rotten values and relationships of domination.
With the self-care and the necessary temper, alone and/or with your like-minded and accomplices. Do not stay out of this call! This can be a good time for anarchic work! Every day can be.
May the death of our comrades be one more impulse in our lives, in our own decisions and will in conflict against this rotten world.
FOR A BLACK AUGUST!
LUPI, TORTUGA AND BELÉN PRESENT IN CHAOS AND ANARCHY!
NOTHING IS OVER, EVERYTHING GOES ON!https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=35004 #anarchist #BlackAugust #chile #southAmerica
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Black August 2026: Call for Month of Action and Propaganda for Comrades Lupi, Tortuga and Belén
«There is no fight without blood, without prison, without clandestinity, without dead… you always have to have this clarity.
(…) Talking about death and not cornering in the grief, talking about the lives of those who left, knowing that they know their blood, we have been watering the path of the struggle and continue is the best tribute to all those who are no longer there… the rest are just excuses.»
-Marcelo Villarroel, anti-authoritarian prisoner.
(Interview published as part of the call for a Black August 2025).«In most of the days of violence (…) brochures or canvases related to anarchist causes have been exhibited.
In yesterday’s demonstration, hooded people held a banners with the legend ‘Black August’ and the name of 3 people linked to violent criminal acts, and even to the placement of explosive devices.»
-The bastard J. Bellolio.
(Referring to incendiary action from the Lastarria high school on 08/13/2025).In August 2024, three anarchist comrades died in different circumstances suddenly and accidentally, after the events, we set ourselves the challenge of multiplying their ideas, their combat stories, those genuine contributions that in life they assumed with commitment, solidarity, seriousness and will.
In this way, we again extend a call for a Black August. We want Luciano Balboa «Lupi», Luciano Pitronello «Tortuga» and Belén Navarrete to continue present in the action and propaganda, as were the responses made last year by anonymous and related in different territories.
This call arises in turn with the intention of (re)vitalising anarchist campaigns, in times of fierce and devastating advances of capital, harsher condemnations against our comrades who have been imprisoned, others in search and capture and power trying to swallow our lives in different ways day by day. Not giving up, not stopping, continuing against all odds are and will always be the worthy options to take.
From different corners, places and prisons, comrades show us that it is always possible and that with what they have at hand, they seek the destruction of this world as we know it, along with its rotten values and relationships of domination.
With the self-care and the necessary temper, alone and/or with your like-minded and accomplices. Do not stay out of this call! This can be a good time for anarchic work! Every day can be.
May the death of our comrades be one more impulse in our lives, in our own decisions and will in conflict against this rotten world.
FOR A BLACK AUGUST!
LUPI, TORTUGA AND BELÉN PRESENT IN CHAOS AND ANARCHY!
NOTHING IS OVER, EVERYTHING GOES ON!https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=35004 #anarchist #BlackAugust #chile #southAmerica
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[Chilean Prisons] 1 Year After the Departure of Tortuga and Belén. Words by the Subversive Comrade Marcelo Villarroel
The daily struggle and anti-prison resistance from the centers of extermination and isolation could not be possible without the fruitful bond of insurrectionary complicity between different comrades in different parts of reality.
In high and maximum security cells, in the clandestine mountains, in the cities and metropolises strewn with technovigilance, on the paths of the struggle to live free… there is always one of us, one who does not adapt, nor surrenders to the ups and downs of the citizens of the domain and that is where we find ourselves with Tortuga, on that path of subversive antagonism and with Belén in the free walk through Anarchy.
We walk with our dead, prisoners and escapees. It is not a slogan but pure reality. We are living with our lights and shadows that feed the eternal fire of our rebellion. We are steadily seeking to change this by making it change in us first even though we know it. We sleep without lowering our arms and we resist, we persist and nothing stops us, not even the death that embraces us inevitably on this long road.
A fraternal and complicit embrace for all those who are not stopped by anything and no one. To those who organize, to the imprisoned comrades who were exiled and to all those who resist with dignity in the prisons and cages.
1 year after the departure of Tortuga and the Belén we will continue to sow Chaos and Anarchy!!
With all our brothers and sisters and fallen comrades!!
Anarchists, Subversives and Mapuche Prisoners, out of the prisons now!!
Until destroying the last bastion of prison society!!
As long as there is misery there will be rebellion!!Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda
Prison/company “La Gonzalina” Rancagua
Territory occupied by the Chilean state
Black August 2025https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21274
#AnarchistPrisoners #BelénNavarrete #BlackAugust #chile #MarceloVillarroel #southAmerica #Tortuga
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[Chilean Prisons] 1 Year After the Departure of Tortuga and Belén. Words by the Subversive Comrade Marcelo Villarroel
The daily struggle and anti-prison resistance from the centers of extermination and isolation could not be possible without the fruitful bond of insurrectionary complicity between different comrades in different parts of reality.
In high and maximum security cells, in the clandestine mountains, in the cities and metropolises strewn with technovigilance, on the paths of the struggle to live free… there is always one of us, one who does not adapt, nor surrenders to the ups and downs of the citizens of the domain and that is where we find ourselves with Tortuga, on that path of subversive antagonism and with Belén in the free walk through Anarchy.
We walk with our dead, prisoners and escapees. It is not a slogan but pure reality. We are living with our lights and shadows that feed the eternal fire of our rebellion. We are steadily seeking to change this by making it change in us first even though we know it. We sleep without lowering our arms and we resist, we persist and nothing stops us, not even the death that embraces us inevitably on this long road.
A fraternal and complicit embrace for all those who are not stopped by anything and no one. To those who organize, to the imprisoned comrades who were exiled and to all those who resist with dignity in the prisons and cages.
1 year after the departure of Tortuga and the Belén we will continue to sow Chaos and Anarchy!!
With all our brothers and sisters and fallen comrades!!
Anarchists, Subversives and Mapuche Prisoners, out of the prisons now!!
Until destroying the last bastion of prison society!!
As long as there is misery there will be rebellion!!Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda
Prison/company “La Gonzalina” Rancagua
Territory occupied by the Chilean state
Black August 2025https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21274
#AnarchistPrisoners #BelénNavarrete #BlackAugust #chile #MarceloVillarroel #southAmerica #Tortuga
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[Basque Country] Attack on German Insurance Company Allianz in Solidarity with Comrade Daniela Klette and for a Black August
Words are important, yes. But when they remain only that, in words, they are useless, only to fill one’s mouth with air, those words lose their meaning. When we say we give solidarity and we want the freedom of the prisoners or when we demand the freedom of the Palestinian people, we have to be consistent, if we analyze only reality, if we confront only ideas, if in the end we stay only with intentions, we stay halfway. There was a time when anarchists combined word and action, theory and practice. And that was our essence as well as our way of distinguishing ourselves from others. While politicians talk and talk and we despise them for that very reason, for their charlatanism, for their despicable changes of direction according to convenience, and ultimately for their innocuousness in changing the established. We said it then and we say it now, that theory is not valid without practice, just as ambivalences or lack of commitment are not valid, nor is wasting time in Sufisms. The time to think without acting is over, the time to analyze without the proper consequences is over. Finally, it was time, said the old anarchists in the past, we are finally doing something, we say now. Enough talk, enough inaction, the Palestinians will say as they slaughter them daily. This is how we also say enough, freedom to the imprisoned comrades.
Everything is already written. Everything has already been analyzed. Everything is more than clear. What prevents us from taking action, what paralyzes us when it comes to being consistent with our ideas and decisions? Is it perhaps the fear of being worse? We are abhorring ourselves with the Western lifestyle, work, consumption and obedience. While our fallen comrades have given the best of their lives to change this shit in which we live, while our comrades are persecuted or imprisoned, we cannot stand still or make the usual protests that already smell of mothballs, of a museum of protest or even worse of corpses before resurrecting.
If history tells us that any struggle to change this increasingly militaristic, authoritarian and exclusionary existence is redirected, crushed or assimilated, let us make it intransigent, uncontrollable and not assimilable in practice.
For this reason, and to begin with ourselves, we have decided to assume the responsibility of continuing to practice here and now the revolutionary gymnastics so dear to our dear comrades of aye, today and tomorrow. We will see if they can assimilate these practices, we will see if they will be able to stop the anger that grows within us, we will see if they will be able to control the social tsunami that is coming. In this civilized Europe there may be no more social, worker-peasant revolutions, there may not be more revolts of the conscious masses. We don’t care. As the French revolutionaries said when they were going to storm the Bastille, then a prison, with the intention of freeing those detained there: it will be what it will be… and we will not be alone to see it happen.Thus, fraternizing with our siblings Belén Navarrete, Luciano Pitronello and Luciano Balboa, we participate in this way in the international call for a Black August.
On Monday, August 25th, we threw stones at the window of the German insurance subsidiary Allianz, in Altsasu-Alsasua (Nafarroa), as a gesture of solidarity to the recently arrested German colleague Daniela Klette.
Free Daniela k.
Nothing and no one will be forgotten
Prisoners on the street.
For a Black AugustFrom: barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/537099
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21270
#anarchist #Basque #BlackAugust #danielaKlette #DirectAction #europe
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[Basque Country] Attack on German Insurance Company Allianz in Solidarity with Comrade Daniela Klette and for a Black August
Words are important, yes. But when they remain only that, in words, they are useless, only to fill one’s mouth with air, those words lose their meaning. When we say we give solidarity and we want the freedom of the prisoners or when we demand the freedom of the Palestinian people, we have to be consistent, if we analyze only reality, if we confront only ideas, if in the end we stay only with intentions, we stay halfway. There was a time when anarchists combined word and action, theory and practice. And that was our essence as well as our way of distinguishing ourselves from others. While politicians talk and talk and we despise them for that very reason, for their charlatanism, for their despicable changes of direction according to convenience, and ultimately for their innocuousness in changing the established. We said it then and we say it now, that theory is not valid without practice, just as ambivalences or lack of commitment are not valid, nor is wasting time in Sufisms. The time to think without acting is over, the time to analyze without the proper consequences is over. Finally, it was time, said the old anarchists in the past, we are finally doing something, we say now. Enough talk, enough inaction, the Palestinians will say as they slaughter them daily. This is how we also say enough, freedom to the imprisoned comrades.
Everything is already written. Everything has already been analyzed. Everything is more than clear. What prevents us from taking action, what paralyzes us when it comes to being consistent with our ideas and decisions? Is it perhaps the fear of being worse? We are abhorring ourselves with the Western lifestyle, work, consumption and obedience. While our fallen comrades have given the best of their lives to change this shit in which we live, while our comrades are persecuted or imprisoned, we cannot stand still or make the usual protests that already smell of mothballs, of a museum of protest or even worse of corpses before resurrecting.
If history tells us that any struggle to change this increasingly militaristic, authoritarian and exclusionary existence is redirected, crushed or assimilated, let us make it intransigent, uncontrollable and not assimilable in practice.
For this reason, and to begin with ourselves, we have decided to assume the responsibility of continuing to practice here and now the revolutionary gymnastics so dear to our dear comrades of aye, today and tomorrow. We will see if they can assimilate these practices, we will see if they will be able to stop the anger that grows within us, we will see if they will be able to control the social tsunami that is coming. In this civilized Europe there may be no more social, worker-peasant revolutions, there may not be more revolts of the conscious masses. We don’t care. As the French revolutionaries said when they were going to storm the Bastille, then a prison, with the intention of freeing those detained there: it will be what it will be… and we will not be alone to see it happen.Thus, fraternizing with our siblings Belén Navarrete, Luciano Pitronello and Luciano Balboa, we participate in this way in the international call for a Black August.
On Monday, August 25th, we threw stones at the window of the German insurance subsidiary Allianz, in Altsasu-Alsasua (Nafarroa), as a gesture of solidarity to the recently arrested German colleague Daniela Klette.
Free Daniela k.
Nothing and no one will be forgotten
Prisoners on the street.
For a Black AugustFrom: barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/537099
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21270
#anarchist #Basque #BlackAugust #danielaKlette #DirectAction #europe
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Mapuche Nation. Black August Action in Temuco
Communiqué:
TEMUKO / UFRO AUGUST 29
Yesterday (28) a score of hooded people mobilized in a new commemoration of a black August where they vindicated the Mapuche comrades, Macarena Valdés, Rodrigo Melinao and Jaime Collio, the student murdered by the cops, Manuel Gutierrez and the deceased anarchist comrades, Luciano Pitronello, Luciano Balboa and Belén Navarrete.
On the other hand, they also mobilized in rejection of the peace and understanding consultation in la Araucanía, which is being held today, Saturday, August 30.
The action ended with a confrontation with cop personnel, who were received with incendiary devices, paint and pyrotechnics.
FREEDOM TO ALL MAPUCHE ANARCHIST AND SUBVERSIVE POLITICAL PRISONERS
COPS, MILITARY AND RATIS [PDI DETECTIVES] OUT OF THE WALLMAPU!!
From Radio Villa Francia Oficialwallmapu #nipaznientendimiento
Resumen Latinoamericano, August 31, 2025.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21210
#anarchist #BlackAugust #chile #mapuche #nipaznientendimiento #southAmerica #temuco #Wallmapu
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Mapuche Nation. Black August Action in Temuco
Communiqué:
TEMUKO / UFRO AUGUST 29
Yesterday (28) a score of hooded people mobilized in a new commemoration of a black August where they vindicated the Mapuche comrades, Macarena Valdés, Rodrigo Melinao and Jaime Collio, the student murdered by the cops, Manuel Gutierrez and the deceased anarchist comrades, Luciano Pitronello, Luciano Balboa and Belén Navarrete.
On the other hand, they also mobilized in rejection of the peace and understanding consultation in la Araucanía, which is being held today, Saturday, August 30.
The action ended with a confrontation with cop personnel, who were received with incendiary devices, paint and pyrotechnics.
FREEDOM TO ALL MAPUCHE ANARCHIST AND SUBVERSIVE POLITICAL PRISONERS
COPS, MILITARY AND RATIS [PDI DETECTIVES] OUT OF THE WALLMAPU!!
From Radio Villa Francia Oficialwallmapu #nipaznientendimiento
Resumen Latinoamericano, August 31, 2025.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21210
#anarchist #BlackAugust #chile #mapuche #nipaznientendimiento #southAmerica #temuco #Wallmapu
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Black August Commemoration in so-called Kingston, NY
From Wednesday Walk for Black Lives, this commemoration of the history and ongoing struggle for Black liberation will have free food, speakers, and community connection
Saturday, August 30, 4 PM
26 Franklin St, "Kingston, NY"
AME Zion Church parking lot -
Black August Commemoration in so-called Kingston, NY
From Wednesday Walk for Black Lives, this commemoration of the history and ongoing struggle for Black liberation will have free food, speakers, and community connection
Saturday, August 30, 4 PM
26 Franklin St, "Kingston, NY"
AME Zion Church parking lot -
Black August Commemoration in so-called Kingston, NY
From Wednesday Walk for Black Lives, this commemoration of the history and ongoing struggle for Black liberation will have free food, speakers, and community connection
Saturday, August 30, 4 PM
26 Franklin St, "Kingston, NY"
AME Zion Church parking lot -
Black August Commemoration in so-called Kingston, NY
From Wednesday Walk for Black Lives, this commemoration of the history and ongoing struggle for Black liberation will have free food, speakers, and community connection
Saturday, August 30, 4 PM
26 Franklin St, "Kingston, NY"
AME Zion Church parking lot -
Black August Commemoration in so-called Kingston, NY
From Wednesday Walk for Black Lives, this commemoration of the history and ongoing struggle for Black liberation will have free food, speakers, and community connection
Saturday, August 30, 4 PM
26 Franklin St, "Kingston, NY"
AME Zion Church parking lot -
For #BlackAugust we're rewatching the first ever episode of System Fail, Riots Across America.
This episode from 2020 chronicles the rise, repression and recuperation of the George Floyd uprising and interviews Oluchi Omeoga of the Black Visions Collective and Reclaim the Block.
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For #BlackAugust we're rewatching the first ever episode of System Fail, Riots Across America.
This episode from 2020 chronicles the rise, repression and recuperation of the George Floyd uprising and interviews Oluchi Omeoga of the Black Visions Collective and Reclaim the Block.
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For #BlackAugust we're rewatching the first ever episode of System Fail, Riots Across America.
This episode from 2020 chronicles the rise, repression and recuperation of the George Floyd uprising and interviews Oluchi Omeoga of the Black Visions Collective and Reclaim the Block.
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For #BlackAugust we're rewatching the first ever episode of System Fail, Riots Across America.
This episode from 2020 chronicles the rise, repression and recuperation of the George Floyd uprising and interviews Oluchi Omeoga of the Black Visions Collective and Reclaim the Block.
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For #BlackAugust we're rewatching the first ever episode of System Fail, Riots Across America.
This episode from 2020 chronicles the rise, repression and recuperation of the George Floyd uprising and interviews Oluchi Omeoga of the Black Visions Collective and Reclaim the Block.
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Attica: When Prisoners Revolted
Each August marks the annual commemoration of a month honoring the legacy of Black prisoners kept behind bars for political activism. Black August is a month to honor the history of struggles for Black liberation, in defiance of racial, colonial, and imperialist oppression, both inside and outside prison walls.
The 1971 Attica prison revolt, in which incarcerated people rose up in a struggle against oppression and inhumane conditions, and were subsequently repressed by state forces with horrifying brutality, is honored each year during Black August.
On September 9, 1971, Attica prisoners took over a part of the prison in an event especially notable for its mass participation. Out of roughly 2,200 men imprisoned at Attica, 1,281 seized control of the facility.
“We are men! We are not beasts and we do not intend to be beaten or driven as such. The entire prison populace, that means every one of us here, has set forth to change forever the ruthless brutalization and disregard for the lives of the prisoners here and throughout the United States,” said 21-year old prisoner Elliott James “L.D.” Barkley in a statement to the press. Barkley would later be killed when state forces recaptured the prison, days before he was scheduled to be released.
Prisoners held control for four days, during which officials conceded to 28 of the prisoners’ demands but rejected calls for the warden’s removal and full amnesty for those incarcerated.
On September 13, 1971, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller sent state troopers armed with rifles and pistols to retake Attica from the prisoners. The four-day uprising ended in a hail of blood and gunfire that left 39 dead, among them 10 prison staff. Four more had already died earlier during the uprising.
With 43 men dead, the vast majority from the violence of state repression, the Attica prison uprising is still the deadliest prison uprising in US history.
Reform and revolution
For some involved in the Attica revolt, their motivations extended beyond simply struggling for better conditions. The year following the Attica uprising, prisoner Joseph Little told a government panel, “I’m not for no penitentiary reform. I’m for abolishing the whole concept of penitentiary reform.”
The conditions in New York State prisons were also reflected in the very demands of the prisoners, presented to New York State officials amid the revolt on September 11, 1971. They included “a change in medical staff and medical policy and procedure,” with prisoners claiming that medical personnel were making “mistakes” affecting their patients. Prisoners also called for an end to the “escalating practice of physical brutality” and more food and more access to drinking water during meals.
Prisoners also called for radical changes to the power structure within the prisons, making a bold argument for the self-determination and dignity of each prisoner. The very first demand was “the constitutional rights of legal representation at the time of all parole board hearings.” Prisoners also highlighted the political and free speech repression taking place within the prison, calling for “an end to the segregation of prisoners from the mainline population because of their political beliefs,” claiming that “Some of the men in segregation units are confined there solely for political reasons and their segregation from other inmates is indefinite.”
Revolt amid worldwide struggle
What other factors drove more than 1,000 prisoners to risk their very lives in open rebellion?
The Attica revolt took place during a time of heightened struggle and consciousness in the United States, as well as globally. The influence of the Black Panther Party (BPP) was reaching its all time high. The Black liberation movement more broadly was a formidable political force, led by organizations like the BPP, the Republic of New Afrika, and numerous local groups, the movement was not only demanding civil rights but also self-determination and community control.
The late 1960s and early 1970s saw an uptick in radical organizing across diverse sectors of society, with white and multiracial students, antiwar, feminist, and countercultural movements. Mass opposition to the Vietnam War was at its height, with groups like Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the broader student antiwar movement challenging US militarism. Some groups, like the Weather Underground, turned to underground actions against the state. Others focused on solidarity with Black liberation and Third World movements. Women’s liberation groups, and Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Indigenous activists expanded the terrain of struggle beyond campuses.
Globally, the late 1960s and early 1970s saw the collapse of Western colonial empire, especially on the African continent. In Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, armed liberation wars against Portuguese colonial rule were at their height, led by movements like the MPLA (Angola), FRELIMO (Mozambique), and PAIGC (Guinea-Bissau). Anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa intensified, with the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress continuing underground organizing. Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) also saw guerilla activity against white settler rule. Countries like Congo, which became independent in 1960, were navigating neocolonial intervention, often by the US and former European colonizers.
The political context of the time had imbued the people of the US with heightened mass consciousness, a phenomenon which did not exclude those behind prison walls. By the time of the Attica uprising, numerous smaller prison revolts had already occurred. In 1970 alone, multiple uprisings shook the New York City jail system, including at the Manhattan House of Detention, the Brooklyn House of Detention, the Queens facilities at Kew Gardens and Long Island City, and the Adolescent Remand Shelter on Rikers Island.
At the Manhattan House of Detention, prisoners held five guards hostage for eight hours until state officials pledged to hear their grievances and assured them there would be no retaliation. Yet despite those assurances, authorities singled out leaders, transferring them to state prisons where they were beaten, confined for months in solitary, and charged with new crimes. Meanwhile, at Auburn Correctional Facility in upstate New York, incarcerated people waged sustained confrontations with officials between November 2, 1970, and June 9, 1971. Prisoners who took part in the Auburn riot were later dispersed to various New York facilities, including Attica.
50 years later
During negotiations at the height of the Attica revolt, then Corrections Commissioner Russell Oswald accepted most of the prisoner demands. But over 50 years later, many of the same injustices and inhumane conditions persist in New York State prisons and US prisons more broadly.
Some of the demands agreed to during the heat of struggle never materialized, including paying prison workers a minimum wage, providing fresh produce to prisoners daily, and permitting access to outside dentists and doctors.
Notably, the brutality in New York’s prison system persists. Earlier this year, NYS prison guards went on an unauthorized strike, following some of their own ranks being charged for the brutal beating of Black prisoner Robert Brooks by white officers.
Shocking body camera footage of Brooks’ death showed multiple guards at Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York participating in the beating while the prisoner was handcuffed and bleeding. The video captures a chilling disregard for Brooks’ life. One officer shoved an object into his mouth as another gripped his throat, before several guards launched a brutal assault. At one point, two officers tried to lift Brooks by his shirt and throw him out of a window.
At the heart of their strike was the anger of prison guards over the HALT (Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement) Act, which limited the right of prison authorities to torture inmates with impunity by reducing the use of solitary confinement. The strike ended in March, after which the state fired over 2,000 prison guards after failing to return to work after a deal was reached between the guards and the state of New York.
This article was originally published in People’s Dispatch.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21100
#attica #BlackAugust #blackLiberation #northAmerica #prisonResistance #repression #us
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Attica: When Prisoners Revolted
Each August marks the annual commemoration of a month honoring the legacy of Black prisoners kept behind bars for political activism. Black August is a month to honor the history of struggles for Black liberation, in defiance of racial, colonial, and imperialist oppression, both inside and outside prison walls.
The 1971 Attica prison revolt, in which incarcerated people rose up in a struggle against oppression and inhumane conditions, and were subsequently repressed by state forces with horrifying brutality, is honored each year during Black August.
On September 9, 1971, Attica prisoners took over a part of the prison in an event especially notable for its mass participation. Out of roughly 2,200 men imprisoned at Attica, 1,281 seized control of the facility.
“We are men! We are not beasts and we do not intend to be beaten or driven as such. The entire prison populace, that means every one of us here, has set forth to change forever the ruthless brutalization and disregard for the lives of the prisoners here and throughout the United States,” said 21-year old prisoner Elliott James “L.D.” Barkley in a statement to the press. Barkley would later be killed when state forces recaptured the prison, days before he was scheduled to be released.
Prisoners held control for four days, during which officials conceded to 28 of the prisoners’ demands but rejected calls for the warden’s removal and full amnesty for those incarcerated.
On September 13, 1971, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller sent state troopers armed with rifles and pistols to retake Attica from the prisoners. The four-day uprising ended in a hail of blood and gunfire that left 39 dead, among them 10 prison staff. Four more had already died earlier during the uprising.
With 43 men dead, the vast majority from the violence of state repression, the Attica prison uprising is still the deadliest prison uprising in US history.
Reform and revolution
For some involved in the Attica revolt, their motivations extended beyond simply struggling for better conditions. The year following the Attica uprising, prisoner Joseph Little told a government panel, “I’m not for no penitentiary reform. I’m for abolishing the whole concept of penitentiary reform.”
The conditions in New York State prisons were also reflected in the very demands of the prisoners, presented to New York State officials amid the revolt on September 11, 1971. They included “a change in medical staff and medical policy and procedure,” with prisoners claiming that medical personnel were making “mistakes” affecting their patients. Prisoners also called for an end to the “escalating practice of physical brutality” and more food and more access to drinking water during meals.
Prisoners also called for radical changes to the power structure within the prisons, making a bold argument for the self-determination and dignity of each prisoner. The very first demand was “the constitutional rights of legal representation at the time of all parole board hearings.” Prisoners also highlighted the political and free speech repression taking place within the prison, calling for “an end to the segregation of prisoners from the mainline population because of their political beliefs,” claiming that “Some of the men in segregation units are confined there solely for political reasons and their segregation from other inmates is indefinite.”
Revolt amid worldwide struggle
What other factors drove more than 1,000 prisoners to risk their very lives in open rebellion?
The Attica revolt took place during a time of heightened struggle and consciousness in the United States, as well as globally. The influence of the Black Panther Party (BPP) was reaching its all time high. The Black liberation movement more broadly was a formidable political force, led by organizations like the BPP, the Republic of New Afrika, and numerous local groups, the movement was not only demanding civil rights but also self-determination and community control.
The late 1960s and early 1970s saw an uptick in radical organizing across diverse sectors of society, with white and multiracial students, antiwar, feminist, and countercultural movements. Mass opposition to the Vietnam War was at its height, with groups like Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the broader student antiwar movement challenging US militarism. Some groups, like the Weather Underground, turned to underground actions against the state. Others focused on solidarity with Black liberation and Third World movements. Women’s liberation groups, and Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Indigenous activists expanded the terrain of struggle beyond campuses.
Globally, the late 1960s and early 1970s saw the collapse of Western colonial empire, especially on the African continent. In Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, armed liberation wars against Portuguese colonial rule were at their height, led by movements like the MPLA (Angola), FRELIMO (Mozambique), and PAIGC (Guinea-Bissau). Anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa intensified, with the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress continuing underground organizing. Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) also saw guerilla activity against white settler rule. Countries like Congo, which became independent in 1960, were navigating neocolonial intervention, often by the US and former European colonizers.
The political context of the time had imbued the people of the US with heightened mass consciousness, a phenomenon which did not exclude those behind prison walls. By the time of the Attica uprising, numerous smaller prison revolts had already occurred. In 1970 alone, multiple uprisings shook the New York City jail system, including at the Manhattan House of Detention, the Brooklyn House of Detention, the Queens facilities at Kew Gardens and Long Island City, and the Adolescent Remand Shelter on Rikers Island.
At the Manhattan House of Detention, prisoners held five guards hostage for eight hours until state officials pledged to hear their grievances and assured them there would be no retaliation. Yet despite those assurances, authorities singled out leaders, transferring them to state prisons where they were beaten, confined for months in solitary, and charged with new crimes. Meanwhile, at Auburn Correctional Facility in upstate New York, incarcerated people waged sustained confrontations with officials between November 2, 1970, and June 9, 1971. Prisoners who took part in the Auburn riot were later dispersed to various New York facilities, including Attica.
50 years later
During negotiations at the height of the Attica revolt, then Corrections Commissioner Russell Oswald accepted most of the prisoner demands. But over 50 years later, many of the same injustices and inhumane conditions persist in New York State prisons and US prisons more broadly.
Some of the demands agreed to during the heat of struggle never materialized, including paying prison workers a minimum wage, providing fresh produce to prisoners daily, and permitting access to outside dentists and doctors.
Notably, the brutality in New York’s prison system persists. Earlier this year, NYS prison guards went on an unauthorized strike, following some of their own ranks being charged for the brutal beating of Black prisoner Robert Brooks by white officers.
Shocking body camera footage of Brooks’ death showed multiple guards at Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York participating in the beating while the prisoner was handcuffed and bleeding. The video captures a chilling disregard for Brooks’ life. One officer shoved an object into his mouth as another gripped his throat, before several guards launched a brutal assault. At one point, two officers tried to lift Brooks by his shirt and throw him out of a window.
At the heart of their strike was the anger of prison guards over the HALT (Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement) Act, which limited the right of prison authorities to torture inmates with impunity by reducing the use of solitary confinement. The strike ended in March, after which the state fired over 2,000 prison guards after failing to return to work after a deal was reached between the guards and the state of New York.
This article was originally published in People’s Dispatch.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21100
#attica #BlackAugust #blackLiberation #northAmerica #prisonResistance #repression #us
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Two powerful new episodes for Black August drop this Saturday! 🎙️
Episode 1: Kwame Ture's Legacy
Dive into the life and legacy of Kwame Ture, a pivotal figure in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.Episode 2: A Reading from In the Belly of the Beast
Join us for a special episode featuring a reading from IN THE BELLY.
Don't miss these two essential episodes. Subscribe and listen this Saturday! #BlackAugust #KwameTure #GeorgeJackson #InTheBellyOfTheBeast #Podcast #BlackHistory #BlackPower
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Two powerful new episodes for Black August drop this Saturday! 🎙️
Episode 1: Kwame Ture's Legacy
Dive into the life and legacy of Kwame Ture, a pivotal figure in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.Episode 2: A Reading from In the Belly of the Beast
Join us for a special episode featuring a reading from IN THE BELLY.
Don't miss these two essential episodes. Subscribe and listen this Saturday! #BlackAugust #KwameTure #GeorgeJackson #InTheBellyOfTheBeast #Podcast #BlackHistory #BlackPower
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Two powerful new episodes for Black August drop this Saturday! 🎙️
Episode 1: Kwame Ture's Legacy
Dive into the life and legacy of Kwame Ture, a pivotal figure in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.Episode 2: A Reading from In the Belly of the Beast
Join us for a special episode featuring a reading from IN THE BELLY.
Don't miss these two essential episodes. Subscribe and listen this Saturday! #BlackAugust #KwameTure #GeorgeJackson #InTheBellyOfTheBeast #Podcast #BlackHistory #BlackPower
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Two powerful new episodes for Black August drop this Saturday! 🎙️
Episode 1: Kwame Ture's Legacy
Dive into the life and legacy of Kwame Ture, a pivotal figure in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.Episode 2: A Reading from In the Belly of the Beast
Join us for a special episode featuring a reading from IN THE BELLY.
Don't miss these two essential episodes. Subscribe and listen this Saturday! #BlackAugust #KwameTure #GeorgeJackson #InTheBellyOfTheBeast #Podcast #BlackHistory #BlackPower
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In Black August, We Turn Destructive Spaces into Laboratories For Liberation
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Chile: May Actions Thin the Veil That Separates Life from Death. Words from La Zarzamora in the Context of Black August
August has a black memory. One that is indispensable for those who stand their ground and decide to act against domination. In memory, something from the past merges with the present, even more so when memory ceases to be words and manifests itself accurately in insurrectionary action or in a concrete gesture of solidarity. Thus, black memory manages to transcend the censorship of power and advances without temporal or generational boundaries.
There also come moments when those who kept that black memory alive become part of it. And in diffuse temporal spaces, the present, the now, and memory converge once again.
There are moments when life and death, from a binary understanding, vanish, creating an instant in which nothing and everything exists.
How must those who witnessed the cowardly and despicable trial that ended in the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti have felt in August 1927?
Despite the insurrectionary actions of comrades, demonstrations, and petitions of all kinds for their release around the world, they were electrocuted by the United States on August 23, 1927, at midnight.
“We must respond to their violence with our violence: revenge. We must oppose their infamous instrument that burned the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti with our instruments of vengeance,” said Di Giovanni in Culmine, in response to the infamous execution of his comrades. He also made it happen: he blew up the Washington monument and the Ford Motor Company in Buenos Aires…
The physical separation from so many comrades is an experience that weighs heavily on us. Only by breaking free from imposed understandings can we heal the absences and learn to live with them.
Last year, two dear comrades left us physically: Luciano Pitronelo and, a few days later, Belén Navarrete, both close to people we loved very much, comrades in ideas, activists, and supporters of our comrades in prison.
After that blow, after the impact, the actions began. The banners and graffiti with their names, barricades and pamphlets with their faces, incendiary outings and other chem were once again merging the present and the recent past, in violent actions, in fire, in banners, in graffiti.
And just as others remembered and made present their comrades almost a century ago, confronting cowardly and pacifist positions, today’s actions serve the same function.
Belén Navarrete lives in the explosion that blew up the door of the Abbott Recalcine laboratory on the stormy night of May 19 this year. The cells that bear her name made her present in an act of revenge for the distribution of contraceptive pills that forced an as yet undetermined number of women and pregnant bodies into pregnancy.
In every gesture, in every action, memory and action, a mixture that fuses the present and the past, in August when the renewal of the trees reappears, when the buds are about to burst, the black memory opens the portal where we make our comrades present… every gesture… every action.
May actions thin the veil that separates life from death.
Belén Navarrete and Tortuga live in insurrectionary action.
For our comrades who transcended the earthly plane.La Zarzamora
Black August 2025Source: Informativo Anarquista
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Chile: May Actions Thin the Veil That Separates Life from Death. Words from La Zarzamora in the Context of Black August
August has a black memory. One that is indispensable for those who stand their ground and decide to act against domination. In memory, something from the past merges with the present, even more so when memory ceases to be words and manifests itself accurately in insurrectionary action or in a concrete gesture of solidarity. Thus, black memory manages to transcend the censorship of power and advances without temporal or generational boundaries.
There also come moments when those who kept that black memory alive become part of it. And in diffuse temporal spaces, the present, the now, and memory converge once again.
There are moments when life and death, from a binary understanding, vanish, creating an instant in which nothing and everything exists.
How must those who witnessed the cowardly and despicable trial that ended in the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti have felt in August 1927?
Despite the insurrectionary actions of comrades, demonstrations, and petitions of all kinds for their release around the world, they were electrocuted by the United States on August 23, 1927, at midnight.
“We must respond to their violence with our violence: revenge. We must oppose their infamous instrument that burned the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti with our instruments of vengeance,” said Di Giovanni in Culmine, in response to the infamous execution of his comrades. He also made it happen: he blew up the Washington monument and the Ford Motor Company in Buenos Aires…
The physical separation from so many comrades is an experience that weighs heavily on us. Only by breaking free from imposed understandings can we heal the absences and learn to live with them.
Last year, two dear comrades left us physically: Luciano Pitronelo and, a few days later, Belén Navarrete, both close to people we loved very much, comrades in ideas, activists, and supporters of our comrades in prison.
After that blow, after the impact, the actions began. The banners and graffiti with their names, barricades and pamphlets with their faces, incendiary outings and other chem were once again merging the present and the recent past, in violent actions, in fire, in banners, in graffiti.
And just as others remembered and made present their comrades almost a century ago, confronting cowardly and pacifist positions, today’s actions serve the same function.
Belén Navarrete lives in the explosion that blew up the door of the Abbott Recalcine laboratory on the stormy night of May 19 this year. The cells that bear her name made her present in an act of revenge for the distribution of contraceptive pills that forced an as yet undetermined number of women and pregnant bodies into pregnancy.
In every gesture, in every action, memory and action, a mixture that fuses the present and the past, in August when the renewal of the trees reappears, when the buds are about to burst, the black memory opens the portal where we make our comrades present… every gesture… every action.
May actions thin the veil that separates life from death.
Belén Navarrete and Tortuga live in insurrectionary action.
For our comrades who transcended the earthly plane.La Zarzamora
Black August 2025Source: Informativo Anarquista
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Chile: Political Violence. Words from Anarchist Compañera Mónica Caballero
Political violence can be understood, from an anti-authoritarian perspective, as an aggressive response that seeks to break, attack, or fracture each of the components that make up domination.
This response could be limited to damaging the symbols of authority, thus leaving a powerful propaganda message, that is, one that manages to capture each of the motivations behind the action and, ideally, causes the violent response to be repeated or spread, or at least part of it.
As I said earlier, it is possible to attack symbolically, understanding that the current system of oppression can be seen represented in different elements or physical objects, or even in people.
For example, we have the case of Sante Caserio, who stabbed French President Sadi Carnot. From my perspective, he did this because the president represented political power, which at that time had led to the deaths of his comrades Ravachol, Vaillant, and Henry. His action sought to be a direct attack on those who publicly upheld power in the territory dominated by the French state in the 1890s. In addition to carrying out revenge, Sante wanted there to be no doubt about his motivations, which is clear in his cry: “Long live anarchy!” At the time of his arrest, as well as in his court statement.
Currently, we understand that the capitalist, heteropatriarchal system of domination is intertwined with complex social and cultural relationships, in addition to material structures and the people who sustain them. Consequently, and from an anarchist perspective, I have (and have held for several years now) the following questions:
How could a decisive qualitative leap be made that goes beyond attacking the symbolic? Is it really possible to “hit where it hurts” the capitalist system, in a world where relations of domination have reached a network of networks throughout the world?
The answers to these questions have changed as I have come to understand how domination has developed and persisted, and I have tried to act on these answers by shaping the many ways in which we can destroy everything that prevents the full development of each individual.
On the long road of how anti-authoritarian political violence is exercised, the successes and failures must necessarily be a collective learning experience for those of us who stand on the same side.
Among those of us who have found ourselves in anarchist/anti-authoritarian “action,” we constantly meet new comrades, just as we painfully say goodbye to many others.
Comrades Belén, Tortuga, Lupi, your memory lives on.
Health and Anarchy!
Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda
Anarchist prisoner
Black August 2025Source: Informativo Anarquista
$hile: Political violence. Words from anarchist compañera Mónica Caballero
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21024
#anarchist #AnarchistPrisoners #BlackAugust #chile #MónicaCaballero #southAmerica #violence
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Chile: Political Violence. Words from Anarchist Compañera Mónica Caballero
Political violence can be understood, from an anti-authoritarian perspective, as an aggressive response that seeks to break, attack, or fracture each of the components that make up domination.
This response could be limited to damaging the symbols of authority, thus leaving a powerful propaganda message, that is, one that manages to capture each of the motivations behind the action and, ideally, causes the violent response to be repeated or spread, or at least part of it.
As I said earlier, it is possible to attack symbolically, understanding that the current system of oppression can be seen represented in different elements or physical objects, or even in people.
For example, we have the case of Sante Caserio, who stabbed French President Sadi Carnot. From my perspective, he did this because the president represented political power, which at that time had led to the deaths of his comrades Ravachol, Vaillant, and Henry. His action sought to be a direct attack on those who publicly upheld power in the territory dominated by the French state in the 1890s. In addition to carrying out revenge, Sante wanted there to be no doubt about his motivations, which is clear in his cry: “Long live anarchy!” At the time of his arrest, as well as in his court statement.
Currently, we understand that the capitalist, heteropatriarchal system of domination is intertwined with complex social and cultural relationships, in addition to material structures and the people who sustain them. Consequently, and from an anarchist perspective, I have (and have held for several years now) the following questions:
How could a decisive qualitative leap be made that goes beyond attacking the symbolic? Is it really possible to “hit where it hurts” the capitalist system, in a world where relations of domination have reached a network of networks throughout the world?
The answers to these questions have changed as I have come to understand how domination has developed and persisted, and I have tried to act on these answers by shaping the many ways in which we can destroy everything that prevents the full development of each individual.
On the long road of how anti-authoritarian political violence is exercised, the successes and failures must necessarily be a collective learning experience for those of us who stand on the same side.
Among those of us who have found ourselves in anarchist/anti-authoritarian “action,” we constantly meet new comrades, just as we painfully say goodbye to many others.
Comrades Belén, Tortuga, Lupi, your memory lives on.
Health and Anarchy!
Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda
Anarchist prisoner
Black August 2025Source: Informativo Anarquista
$hile: Political violence. Words from anarchist compañera Mónica Caballero
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21024
#anarchist #AnarchistPrisoners #BlackAugust #chile #MónicaCaballero #southAmerica #violence
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This #BlackAugust we're reading the zine Freeing Assata from Philly Anticap.
In it they discuss the history of the Shakur family, Assata Shakur's daring escape from prison, Russell Maroon Shoatz, the Black Liberation Army, and anti-prison struggles.
https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/zine-freeing-assata/
.pdf available here:
https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/files/2025/04/freeingassatascreen.pdf
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This #BlackAugust we're reading the zine Freeing Assata from Philly Anticap.
In it they discuss the history of the Shakur family, Assata Shakur's daring escape from prison, Russell Maroon Shoatz, the Black Liberation Army, and anti-prison struggles.
https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/zine-freeing-assata/
.pdf available here:
https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/files/2025/04/freeingassatascreen.pdf
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This #BlackAugust we're reading the zine Freeing Assata from Philly Anticap.
In it they discuss the history of the Shakur family, Assata Shakur's daring escape from prison, Russell Maroon Shoatz, the Black Liberation Army, and anti-prison struggles.
https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/zine-freeing-assata/
.pdf available here:
https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/files/2025/04/freeingassatascreen.pdf
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This #BlackAugust we're reading the zine Freeing Assata from Philly Anticap.
In it they discuss the history of the Shakur family, Assata Shakur's daring escape from prison, Russell Maroon Shoatz, the Black Liberation Army, and anti-prison struggles.
https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/zine-freeing-assata/
.pdf available here:
https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/files/2025/04/freeingassatascreen.pdf
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This #BlackAugust we're reading the zine Freeing Assata from Philly Anticap.
In it they discuss the history of the Shakur family, Assata Shakur's daring escape from prison, Russell Maroon Shoatz, the Black Liberation Army, and anti-prison struggles.
https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/zine-freeing-assata/
.pdf available here:
https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/files/2025/04/freeingassatascreen.pdf
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In Black August, We Turn Destructive Spaces into Laboratories For Liberation
This is not just a month of mourning — it’s a time for mobilization and recommitment to prison abolition.
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“Defeatism Has No Place” in Liberation Struggles, Frantz Fanon’s Daughter Says
For Black August, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France sets the record straight on her father’s revolutionary legacy.
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August 24, 4-6pm at @firestorm we're discussing the introduction and first chapter of Orisanmi Burton's "Tip Of The Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt"
It which can be purchased at Firestorm with a book club discount in-store (but only if you ask in person for it). Fitting we would begin this book club during #BlackAugust, the book discusses the wider organizing and radical thrust that contextualized the Attica Uprising as well as interesting insights from folks on the ground in the midst of the revolt.
https://brabc.noblogs.org/reading-group/
Our September session is cancelled as it falls on the Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair weekend, but we'll meet back up in October.
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August 24, 4-6pm at @firestorm we're discussing the introduction and first chapter of Orisanmi Burton's "Tip Of The Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt"
It which can be purchased at Firestorm with a book club discount in-store (but only if you ask in person for it). Fitting we would begin this book club during #BlackAugust, the book discusses the wider organizing and radical thrust that contextualized the Attica Uprising as well as interesting insights from folks on the ground in the midst of the revolt.
https://brabc.noblogs.org/reading-group/
Our September session is cancelled as it falls on the Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair weekend, but we'll meet back up in October.
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August 24, 4-6pm at @firestorm we're discussing the introduction and first chapter of Orisanmi Burton's "Tip Of The Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt"
It which can be purchased at Firestorm with a book club discount in-store (but only if you ask in person for it). Fitting we would begin this book club during #BlackAugust, the book discusses the wider organizing and radical thrust that contextualized the Attica Uprising as well as interesting insights from folks on the ground in the midst of the revolt.
https://brabc.noblogs.org/reading-group/
Our September session is cancelled as it falls on the Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair weekend, but we'll meet back up in October.
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August 24, 4-6pm at @firestorm we're discussing the introduction and first chapter of Orisanmi Burton's "Tip Of The Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt"
It which can be purchased at Firestorm with a book club discount in-store (but only if you ask in person for it). Fitting we would begin this book club during #BlackAugust, the book discusses the wider organizing and radical thrust that contextualized the Attica Uprising as well as interesting insights from folks on the ground in the midst of the revolt.
https://brabc.noblogs.org/reading-group/
Our September session is cancelled as it falls on the Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair weekend, but we'll meet back up in October.
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Patreon supporters can hear an early release of our interview with Malik Muhammad ( @malikspeaks ) , 2020 uprising prisoner in Oregon speaking about conditions, organizing behind bars, #BlackAugust and what gives them hope. Check it out!
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Patreon supporters can hear an early release of our interview with Malik Muhammad ( @malikspeaks ) , 2020 uprising prisoner in Oregon speaking about conditions, organizing behind bars, #BlackAugust and what gives them hope. Check it out!
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Patreon supporters can hear an early release of our interview with Malik Muhammad ( @malikspeaks ) , 2020 uprising prisoner in Oregon speaking about conditions, organizing behind bars, #BlackAugust and what gives them hope. Check it out!
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Patreon supporters can hear an early release of our interview with Malik Muhammad ( @malikspeaks ) , 2020 uprising prisoner in Oregon speaking about conditions, organizing behind bars, #BlackAugust and what gives them hope. Check it out!
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Patreon supporters can hear an early release of our interview with Malik Muhammad ( @malikspeaks ) , 2020 uprising prisoner in Oregon speaking about conditions, organizing behind bars, #BlackAugust and what gives them hope. Check it out!
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Patreon supporters can hear an early release of our interview with Malik Muhammad (@malikspeaks), 2020 uprising prisoner in Oregon speaking about conditions, organizing behind bars, #BlackAugust and what gives them hope. Check it out! Ep releasing Sunday for all
https://www.patreon.com/posts/2020-uprising-dc-136518839 -
Patreon supporters can hear an early release of our interview with Malik Muhammad (@malikspeaks), 2020 uprising prisoner in Oregon speaking about conditions, organizing behind bars, #BlackAugust and what gives them hope. Check it out! Ep releasing Sunday for all
https://www.patreon.com/posts/2020-uprising-dc-136518839 -
Patreon supporters can hear an early release of our interview with Malik Muhammad (@malikspeaks), 2020 uprising prisoner in Oregon speaking about conditions, organizing behind bars, #BlackAugust and what gives them hope. Check it out! Ep releasing Sunday for all
https://www.patreon.com/posts/2020-uprising-dc-136518839 -
Patreon supporters can hear an early release of our interview with Malik Muhammad (@malikspeaks), 2020 uprising prisoner in Oregon speaking about conditions, organizing behind bars, #BlackAugust and what gives them hope. Check it out! Ep releasing Sunday for all
https://www.patreon.com/posts/2020-uprising-dc-136518839 -
Patreon supporters can hear an early release of our interview with Malik Muhammad (@malikspeaks), 2020 uprising prisoner in Oregon speaking about conditions, organizing behind bars, #BlackAugust and what gives them hope. Check it out! Ep releasing Sunday for all
https://www.patreon.com/posts/2020-uprising-dc-136518839 -
[Chilean Prisons] For an August of Black Memory of Combat. Words of the Anarchist Comrades Aldo and Lucas Hernández
The absence they leave to their comrades must have an impact on the daily lives of those who did know them, who crossed more than a word must miss them, and how could they not? Who is prepared for the death of a sibling? Although we can put ourselves in the situation, scenario, there is no certainty of being prepared, all feeling is always one’s own and individual, what one can feel inside, you have to live it in your own flesh to talk about the loss.
We did not walk together with you, we did not know you, but comrades give an account of your determined journey to face this reality.
These lines are to bring to mind Luciano, Belén and Lupi, that no comrade has to die in a distant memory, but to bring them present in every moment that is decided to confront the established.
For Luciano, Lupi, Belén, Santiago Maldonado, Macarena Valdés and so many who died or killed us…
First week of a Black August.
Aldo and Lucas from “La Gonzalina” and “Santiago Uno”.https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20819
#AldoHernández #AnarchistPrisoners #BlackAugust #chile #lucasHernández
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[Chilean Prisons] For an August of Black Memory of Combat. Words of the Anarchist Comrades Aldo and Lucas Hernández
The absence they leave to their comrades must have an impact on the daily lives of those who did know them, who crossed more than a word must miss them, and how could they not? Who is prepared for the death of a sibling? Although we can put ourselves in the situation, scenario, there is no certainty of being prepared, all feeling is always one’s own and individual, what one can feel inside, you have to live it in your own flesh to talk about the loss.
We did not walk together with you, we did not know you, but comrades give an account of your determined journey to face this reality.
These lines are to bring to mind Luciano, Belén and Lupi, that no comrade has to die in a distant memory, but to bring them present in every moment that is decided to confront the established.
For Luciano, Lupi, Belén, Santiago Maldonado, Macarena Valdés and so many who died or killed us…
First week of a Black August.
Aldo and Lucas from “La Gonzalina” and “Santiago Uno”.https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20819
#AldoHernández #AnarchistPrisoners #BlackAugust #chile #lucasHernández
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Today during #BlackAugust we're rewatching 'The Revolution Has Come' sedition of It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine.
Made during the early stages of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, this sedition covers the history of The Black Panthers, COINTELPRO, has a rad soundtrack and features and interview with Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin
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Today during #BlackAugust we're rewatching 'The Revolution Has Come' sedition of It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine.
Made during the early stages of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, this sedition covers the history of The Black Panthers, COINTELPRO, has a rad soundtrack and features and interview with Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin
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Today during #BlackAugust we're rewatching 'The Revolution Has Come' sedition of It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine.
Made during the early stages of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, this sedition covers the history of The Black Panthers, COINTELPRO, has a rad soundtrack and features and interview with Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin