The Hotwire #22: Int’l Women’s Day actions—#DefendAfrin solidarity—WV teachers’ strike ends

This episode we bring you two roundups: one for women’s strike actions on International Women’s Day, and another for #DefendAfrin actions across Europe. We also share a call for and international day of solidarity to #DefendAfrin on March 24. The West Virginia teachers’ strike has ended, and we share our complicated takeaways from the longest strike in West Virginia history. The alt-right is unraveling, but anti-fascists arrested in Michigan last week still need your help. Things are heating up in Hamilton, Ontario as anarchists demonstrate against gentrification and face right-wing backlash for it. Listen until the end for announcements of speaking tours, J20 updates, political prisoner birthdays, and upcoming anarchist bookfairs. {March 14, 2018}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:00}
  • Headlines {1:30}
  • International Women’s Day roundup {5:30}
  • #DefendAfrin solidarity {10:50}
  • West Virginia teachers’ strike ends {14:40}
  • Repression Roundup {21:10}
  • Next Week’s News {26:50}
• Download 29:30 minutes long version
• March 15 is the 22nd annual March Against Police Brutality in Montreal. The march meets at 7:30 PM at Parc LaFontaine.
• March 24 is the Defend Afrin International Day of Action. Go to TheNAKA.org to find out more about the day of action or to register your own local event.
• 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
• Other anarchist shows mentioned in this Hotwire:
  • The Ex-Worker #49 contains the excerpt we used about spreading anti-cop sentiment through service worker solidarity.
  • We are currently in the middle of a week of solidarity with anarchists in Russia. To find out more about the repression anarchists face in Russia, check out this recent episode of The Final Straw podcast, which has an interview with someone from Moscow Anarchist Black Cross.
  • For a history of the amazing occupation of the Hambacher Forest, check out episode 37 of The Ex-Worker.
  • The episode “Striking Gets the Goods” on the number one anarcho-comedy podcast Street Fight Radio has a really great on-the-ground interview with one striking West Virginia teacher.
• CrimethInc. texts mentioned in this Hotwire:
  • Brazil 2016–2017: The Political Crisis and Coup d’État, an Anarchist Analysis
  • From Democracy to Freedom
  • Fuck Abuse, Kill Power: Addressing the Root Causes of Sexual Harassment and Assault
• Fundraising:
  • Anti-fascists arrested for confronting the alt-right in Michigan need legal defense funds.
  • 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.
  • J20 Legal Defense Fund
  • National Jericho Movement 20th anniversary celebration fundraiser
• J20 solidarity speaking tour:
  • March 14: Los Angeles, CA – The Y (1811 Johnston Street, Suite C), 7:00 PM
  • March 15: San Diego – Metate Infoshop
  • March 16: Flagstaff, AZ – Taala Hooghan Infoshop (1704 N. 2nd St)
  • March 17: Phoenix, AZ
  • March 18: Tucson, AZ – Global Justice Center (225 E. 26th St)
  • From Democracy to Freedom Speaking Tour by CrimethInc..
    • March 17: St. Louis, MO – 3:00 PM at Foam Coffeehouse
    • 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 18 @ 7:00 pm at Soft Web Collective 3110 W. Leigh St. Richmond, VA 23220: The Birdhouse 800 N 4th Ave Knoxville, TN 37917: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism
  • March 19 @ 12:00 pm at Soft Web Collective 3110 W. Leigh St. Richmond, VA 23220: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness
  • March 20 @ 7:00 PM at Friends Meeting House 1104 Forest St. Charlottesville, VA 22903: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism
  • March 21 @ 3:00 PM at Friends Meeting House 1104 Forest St. Charlottesville, VA 22903: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness
• Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write to political prisoner Ruchell Cinque Magee:

  Ruchell Cinque Magee #A92051
  B3–138
  California Mens Colony
  Post Office Box 8103
  San Luis Obispo, California 93409–8103
  {Birthday: March 17, 2018}

• Political prisoner Robert Seth Hayes is in need of support. Please call 518–457–7073 and 845–434–2080 to respectfully demand that Robert Seth Hayes gets new insulin sensors and the medical treatment he deserves.