The Hotwire #17: ZAD interview—anarcho-syndicalism isn’t for losers—anti-pope actions in Chile

The first episode of our new season! This week we run down the list of antifascist confrontations from San Diego to Olympia, Washington. We also share a call for opposing Richard Spencer in Lansing, Michigan on March 5. Fast food workers in Portland, sex workers in New Orleans, and Uber drivers in Indonesia are all getting organized. Camille, Camille, and Camille from the ZAD explain their complicated victory over the planned airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, and Flint Arthur from Stand With Afrin phones in with an update on the Turkish assault on Rojava. Stay tuned until the Repression Roundup to hear about a new wave of repression against humanitarian aid workers on the US-Mexico border. {February 7, 2018}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:00}
  • Headlines {2:05}
  • Turkish military’s assault on Rojava {8:00}
  • Chilean resistance to the Pope’s visit {10:00}
  • J20—where things stand a year later {13:25}
  • The ZAD beat the airport! {20:05}
  • Repression Roundup {27:50}
  • Next Week’s News {32:00}
• J20 support resources:
  • J20 Legal Defense Fund
  • Twitter
  • Fed book
  • An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful “do”s and “don’t”s
  • Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained
• Other anarchist shows mentioned in this Hotwire:
  • A radio-play adaptation of The Dispossessed
  • The new Global Uprisings documentary ANTIFA
  • The Ex-Worker 63: Anarchists in the Trump Era: Scorecard, Year One. Achievements, Failures, and the Struggles Ahead
  • The Ex-Worker 36: The Rojava Revolution - The Ex-Worker 39: The Rojava Revolution, Part II
  • The Ex-Worker 37: The Hambacher Forest Occupation
  • The Final Straw: Şoreş Ronahi on Turkish assaults on Afrin Canton, Rojava, Syria
• CrimethInc. texts mentioned in this Hotwire:
  • What We Need from You How You Can Help with CrimethInc. Projects
  • We Will Remember Freedom: Why It Matters that Ursula K. Le Guin was an Anarchist - Government Shutdown Doesn’t Go Far Enough: Make the Shutdown Comprehensive and Permanent
  • Immigrants Welcome stickers
  • Borders: The Global Caste System posters
  • No Wall They Can Build
• Writings by Ursula K. Le Guin:
  • The Dispossessed
  • Le Guin writings on the Anarchist Library
• Grin and Bare It All, an anarchist, feminist essay on sex work written by a worker from the industry.
• Congratulations to acquitted J20 defendant Alexei Wood for beating bogus J20 related charges for a second year in a row… and for leaving the world one more entertaining anti-MAGA hat video.
• Full reports on the successful confrontations against Patriot Prayer in Olympia, Washington.
• A .gif of the Chilean police horse who threw a cop off her back and next to the popemobile.
• Go to the this Facebook page to find out how to support Tamara Sol Vergara and her family after her injuries sustained during an escape attempt.
• Check out this statement of support for Tariq Khan from the Campus Antifascist Network. To support Tariq, please send respectful but firm e-mails to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Office of Student Conflict Resolution, Assistant Dean of Students, Rony Die: ronydie@illinois.edu and Associate Dean of Students, Justin Brown: justbrow@illinois.edu.
• Write to imprisoned CopWatcher Ramsey Orta:
  Ramsey Orta, 16A4200
  112 Scotch Settlement Rd
  Gouverneur, NY 13642

  Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross.