ottawa is cancelling its canada day celebration due to extreme weather events ONE DAY after carney put out a video saying he had to dismantle canada's climate policies because they were pulling the country apart.
can't make this shit up, folks.
1) nobody should water down the politics of incarcerated anarchists to make them more palatable to non-anarchists.
2) we do not need "left unity" to express solidarity across political tendencies. we should care about the prairieland 8, the MN 15, filton 24, and *all prisoners*
two of the prairie land defendants are trans women. they are being held in "men's" prisons, and they are being denied HRT.
they describe the court prosecution as being anti-intellectual, implying that they are dangerous for the fact they are reading a lot of radical literature
Benjamin Song was just given 100 years in federal prison for saving a protestor from execution by cop at a demonstration against the ICE concentration camps.
He is a committed anarchist and defender of life. The fascist government is making an example of him. This is injustice.
the prairieland case does not prove that resistance is impossible. resistance is never impossible. strategies which re-establish mass confrontational participation should be a top priority.
If you have ever attended a protest, or been present in a groupchat with any random person who has committed any crime, you could spend the rest of your life in a cell.
This is a terrible injustice and a threat to every single person who dares to oppose the American regime.
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" I do not fear for myself. I fear for you. What will you do? In this time of great failures and great injustices, what will you do? How will you help each other? How will you help yourselves?"
the Prairieland defendant’s sentencing is absolutely meant to terrify us into inaction
THEY are scared
THEY are lashing out
THEY are desperately trying to cling to control they know are losing
THEY LITERALLY HID VIDEO EVIDENCE DISPROVING EVERYTHING THE PROSECUTION SAID! EVERYTHING THEY SAID IN THE TRIAL WAS A LIE and the evidence only came out after they were declared guilty. This is straight bullshit
Des has been sentenced to 30 years because he & his wife Mari stood up against the concentration camp in their city. He wasn't even at the protest. She got 70 years.
If you think you can stay safe from this by staying home, please take some time to study the history of fascism.
These are political show trial sentences.
They are the harshest that i know of since firing squads and exile.
The response to this has to be commiserate or nothing at all.
the US government trying to put people away for 30 years for having anarchist zines is exactly why anarchists are making those zines. end this abomination