The Hotwire #30: May Day 2018 Roundup

Our annual roundup of worldwide May Day actions. We have interviews with participants in May Day actions in Puerto Rico, where there was a general strike, and Paris, whose black bloc didn’t only take the cake, they took the whole damn bakery! Indonesia saw black blocs erupt all over the country, and now a wave of politically-motivated arrests there are targeting anarchists. In the USA, opposition to ICE and deportations was one clear theme, and the calls for decentralized actions did yield some spikey vandalism in the Pacific Northwest. We also have a short update about what’s happening at La ZAD. {May 3, 2018}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:00}
  • The importance of supporting anarchist media {2:00}
  • Worldwide May Day headlines {3:40}
  • Interview: Paris May Day {10:50}
  • Interview: ZAD update {18:10}
  • North America May Day headlines {22:50}
  • Interview: May Day general strike in Puerto Rico {32:50}
  • Repression Roundup and Next Week’s News {40:00}
• Download 29:30 minutes long version
• North American May Day roundup
• Worldwide May Day roundup
• In case you didn’t catch it, for May Day we released a very special episode with the best of anarchist news reporting over the last few centuries
• May/June: a month 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)
• Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write to an anarchist prisoner and wish them a happy beltaned May Day. You can find a list of anarchist prisoners in the Americas here.

  Also, please write a letter to Cedar, a comrade in Ontario who is in jail over conspiracy charges stemming from the March 5 anti-gentrification march in Hamilton, Ontario. Please address the envelope to Peter Hopperton and 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