The Hotwire #21: Lansing protests fascists—teachers’ strike grows & spreads—3 cheers for anarchy

This episode we bring you two interviews. The first is an on-the-ground report from the days of anti-fascist action against Richard Spencer’s visit to Detroit and Lansing, with a plea for bail funds to help arrested anti-fascists. Next, we interview a West Virginian anarchist about what makes the teachers’ strike there so unique and important. We plug a call from the West Virginia IWW for how to support and spread the strike. Throughout the episode we make the case for an international, revolutionary movement that can do away with all forms of hierarchy and kyriarchy! {February 28, 2018}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:00}
  • Headlines {1:40}
  • Interview: Michigan holds it down against fascism {12:50}
  • Interview: West Virginia teachers strike—how to support and spread it {20:20}
  • Next Week’s News {29:50}
• Go here if you’d like to join the L’eau Est La Vie anti-pipeline camp in Louisiana.
• Support and spread the West Virginia teachers’ strike!
  • Check out this article from the West Virginia Industrial Workers of the World on how to support and spread the strike.
  • Tidewater IWW are hosting an education workers’ assembly in Norfolk, VA on March 9 to explore the possibility of spreading the West Virginia teachers’ strike to Virginia. They’re encouraging other anticapitalists in Virginia to host similar assemblies.
  • If you’re within driving distance, go to the strike and bring agitational materials like this, this, this, this, this, this, this, [this]https://crimethinc.com/posters/capitalism-is-a-pyramid-scheme), this, this, this, and these.
  • IGDcast Audio Report: Teachers’ Strike Enters Second Week
  • Donate to the West Virginia IWW solidarity fund for the teachers’ strike here.
  • Donate to the official teacher’s strike fund here.
• Other anarchist shows mentioned in this Hotwire:
  • IGDcast: Appalachia Resists the Mountain Valley Pipeline
  • The Final Straw: Anarchist Perspectives on DACA
  • Hotwire #19 has an overview of the Koreatown popular assembly, which has organized a grassroots alert system for responding to ICE raids
  • Trouble #9: Learning to Resist
• Fundraising:
  • Anti-fascists arrested for confronting the alt-right in Michigan are STILL IN JAIL as we go to press. Please donate to help get them out of jail and to support their upcoming legal battles.
  • Donate to the anti-Mountain Valley Pipeline treesitters in West Virginia.
  • The Southeast Trans and/or Women Action Camp in late April has had their fundraising page shut down TWICE. If you have some bucks to spare you can donate to the action camp at PayPal.me/setwac2018.
  • Donate to the West Virginia IWW solidarity fund for the teachers’ strike here.
  • Donate to the official teacher’s strike fund here.
• J20 solidarity speaking tour:
  • March 8: Chico, CA – Pageant Theater (351 East 6th Street), 7:00 PM
  • March 9: Sacramento, CA – Organize Sacramento (1714 Broadway), 5:00 PM
  • March 10: San Francisco, CA – Station 40 (3030 16th Street, Suite B), 7:00 PM
  • March 11: Oakland, CA – Hasta Muerte Coffee (2701 Fruitvale Ave @ East 27th Street), 5:00 PM
  • March 13: Santa Cruz, CA – Freight Building (119 Center Street), 6:30 PM
  • March 14: Los Angeles, CA – The Y (1811 Johnston Street, Suite C), 7:00 PM
• From Democracy to Freedom Speaking Tour by CrimethInc..
  • March 7: Pittsburgh, PA – 7:00 PM at the Mr. Roboto Project, 5106 Penn Avenue
  • March 9: Cleveland, OH – 7:00 PM at Guide to Kulchur, 5222 Lorain Avenue
  • March 10: Bowling Green, OH – 6:00 PM at The Common Good, 113 Crim Street
  • March 11: Chicago, IL – 7:00 PM at 2424 S. Western Avenue. Organized by Breakaway Chicago
  • March 12: Bloomington, IN – 7:00 PM at the Monroe County Public Library
  • March 13: Carbondale, IL – 7:00 PM at The Flyover, 214 North Washington.
  • If you’d like to arrange a presentation in your town or at your university, just contact rollingthunder@crimethinc.com.
• Mutual Aid Disaster Relief tour
  • March 7 @ 2:00 pm at The Birdhouse 800 N 4th Ave Knoxville, TN 37917: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness
  • March 9 @ 7:30 pm at Firestorm Books & Cafe 610 Haywood Rd Asheville, NC 28806: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism
  • March 10 @ 12:00 pm at Firestorm Books & Cafe 610 Haywood Rd Asheville, NC 28806: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness
  • March 13 @ 6:00 pm at Turchin Center for the Visual Arts 423 West King St Boone, NC 28608: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism
  • March 14 @ 6:00 pm at SAMS Community Center 707 W Main St Unit A Wise, VA 24293: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism
• J20 support resources:
  • West Coast J20 solidarity speaking tour
  • 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