The Hotwire #27: Legal victory for the Tarnac 9—calls for May Day actions—Vive la ZAD!

It’s been a week of battle at La ZAD, and we share a day-to-day play-by-play of the resistance to the government’s eviction operation. Elsewhere in France, the Tarnac Nine’s legal victory shows that with a little luck and courage, we can beat the state. Direct action gets the goods for a university occupation against a racist student body president at Texas State University in San Marcos, we finally have an address where you can write Cedar, who is in jail on charges of conspiracy over the anti-gentrification prole stroll in Hamilton, Ontario, and we close the episode by sharing calls for May Day actions in Los Angeles, Eugene, Portland, Olympia, and Seattle. {April 18, 2018}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:00}
  • Down with the state and its taxes! {0:33}
  • A week of battle over La Zad {3:25}
  • Headlines {11:00}
  • Legal victory for the Tarnac Nine! {20:25}
  • Next Week’s News {26:56}
• Download 29:30 minutes long version
• Check out these full reports of resistance to the eviction of la ZAD. Enough is Enough continue to have live updates in English from la ZAD.
• E-mail taalahooghan@protonmail.com for ways to support those facing multiple charges for allegedly defacing a police station in Arizona the same weekend as an anti-fascist, anti-colonial gathering.
• To hear more about Turning Point USA’s alt-lite politics and campaigns of harassing leftist and anarchist presences at universities, check out the Black Rose Anarchist Federation’s interview with Kristina Khan, or the IGDcast interview with Tariq Khan, an anarchist PhD candidate at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign.
• CALLS FOR MAY DAY ACTION:
  • Los Angeles: a disruptive march
  • Eugene, Oregon: a really free market
  • Portland, Oregon: coordinated, decentralized actions
  • Seattle: coordinated, decentralized actions
  • Olympia: coordinated, decentralized actions
• Other shows mentioned on this Hotwire:
  • Hotwire #26 has our interview with a participant in the Syrian Revolution, who states, “freedom and justice… can only be achieved through a struggle against all authoritarian murderous parties, whether Assad or Islamist jihadists on the one hand or Russia and the U.S. on the other hand.”
  • Episode 50 of The Ex-Worker has an interview with about the Lucasville prison uprising and how it informs contemporary prison rebellion and organizing
  • Get inspired to do something AWESOME for May Day by listening to the very first episode of The Ex-Worker, which is all about Haymarket.
• Anarchist texts mentioned in this Hotwire:
  • We Don’t Need Gun Control, We Need To Take Control
  • June 11: The History of a Day of Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity
  • The May Days: Snapshots from the History of May Day
• Start gearing up for a summer of anarchy in Quebec!
  • The anarchist film festival (May 17–20 in Montreal)
  • The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (May 22–23 in Montreal)
  • The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 26–27 in Montreal)
  • The North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference (June 1–3 in Montreal)
  • Anti-G7 mobilization (June 7–9 in Quebec City)
• The Southeast Trans and/or Women Action Camp, taking place April 26–29 in Western North Carolina, has had their donation page shut down twice, so if you have some bucks to spare you can donate at PayPal.me/setwac2018.
• Mutual Aid Disaster Relief tourdates this week:
  • April 18 at 6 PM at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee 2200 E Kenwood Blvd Milwaukee, WI 53211: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness
  • April 19 at 5 PM at University of Wisconsin – Rock County 2909 Kellogg Ave Janesville, WI 53546: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism
  • April 20 at 12 PM at Angelic Organics Learning Center 1545 Rockton Rd Caledonia, IL 61011: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness
  • April 25 at 5:00 PM at Youth Initiative High School 500 East Jefferson St Viroqua, WI 54665: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism
• Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write birthday greetings to political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Janine Phillips Africa.
  • Mumia Abu-Jamal AM8335
    SCI Mahanoy
    301 Morea Road
    Frackville, Pennsylvania 17932
    {Birthday: April 24}
  • Janine Phillips Africa #006309
    SCI Cambridge Springs
    451 Fullerton Avenue
    Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania 16403
    {Birthday: April 25}
  • Also, please write a letter to Cedar, the comrade in Ontario who was arrested last week over conspiracy charges stemming from the March 5 anti-gentrification march in Hamilton, Ontario. They are currently being held in segregation, so these letters are especially crucial for helping break the isolation they might experience in prison. Please address the envelope to Peter Hopperton, but address the letters to Cedar:

    Peter Hopperton
    Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre
    165 Barton St
    East Hamilton ON
    L8L 2W6

• J20 support resources:
  • POSTER: The J20 Prosecution—Trumped up Charges
  • 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
  • Tell the prosecutor’s boss to drop the charges by calling (202) 252–7566