The Hotwire #37: Evictions in Hambach—Aid & Disaster Relief after Florence—Strikes!

The world is a dangerous place in 2018-Botham Jean is murdered in his own home by a Dallas cop and police are actively raiding the rebel encampment in the Hambach Forest. There’s inspiring strike resistance in Central and South America where striking dockworkers in Chile caused thousands of dollars in damage and a general strike in taking place in Costa Rica. Hurricane Florence took Wilmington by storm and we interview anarchists on the ground doing disaster relief. There are quite a few prisoners who need support and we read excerpts from a heartfelt statement issued by prisoners at the Burnside Prison in Halifax who are ending their strike. Anarchists in London are trying something new! And there’s lots of events coming up! Send us news, events, or ideas on how our show can better serve anarchist activity in your town by emailing us at podcast@crimethinc.com. {September 19, 2018}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:00}
  • Headlines {1:15}
  • Evictions in Hambach Forest {5:42}
  • Strikes! in Costa Rica and Chile {11:10}
  • Interview w Anarchists in Wilmington after Hurricane Florence {13:22}
  • Explosions in Hanover {22:31}
  • Repression roundup {25:45}
  • Next Week’s News {34:52}
• Download 29:30 minutes long version
• Autonomous Mutual Aid in the wake of Hurricane Florence
  • Donate to Grassroots Hurricane Relief, in Durham, NC, or Mutual Aid Supplies Relief NC
  • You can contact Tidewater IWW in the Norfolk, VA area, Mutual Aid Carrboro, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief or Blue Ridge Autonomous Defense Crew in North Carolina
• Donate to relief efforts around Andover and Lawrence, Massachusetts after an explosions and fires rocked their communities: Bread And Roses Lawrence, Lazarus House shelter, Elevated Thought , or Greater Lawrence Community Action Council.
• Upcoming anarchist book fairs and events:
  • September 28–30: The 12th annual Balkan Anarchist Bookfair in Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Anarchist book and propaganda gathering in Santiago, Chile October 13 and 14, encuentroanarquista.org.
  • 20 and 21 in London, England, instead of an anarchist bookfair comrades there are organizing a decentralized anarchist festival!
• Help defend long term anarchist spaces:
  • On September 29, there is a demo at 6 PM in defense of Liebig34, a self-organized, anarcha-queer-feminist collective house and social center in Berlin!
• And fund new ones:
  • The Aftonomi Space in Yogyakarta, Indonesia is raising funds to equip their infoshop!
• Upcoming anti-fascist action:
  • September 29: Oppose the League of the South’s rally in Elizabethton, TN. Stay tuned to @HollerNetwork and @knoxradical for updates.
• Help fund defense for antifa arrested in Newnan, Georgia!
• In the next episode of Trouble, subMedia explores hiphop as a potent site of revolutionary politics. It drops on September 25th at 8pm on sub.media
• Other relevant CrimethInc. material:
  • Learn more about the legacy of the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile through the insurrectionary documentary The Chicago Conspiracy
  • Hotwire #3, Hotwire #6, and Hotwire #9 have interviews about mutual aid based, autonomous relief efforts in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
• Evictions HAVE BEGUN in the Hambach Forest! If you’re in Europe, make your way to the Hambach Forest in Germany to help defend it, and the radical Ewok village of forest defenders who live there. Also, check out our audio documentary about the forest and the defense campaign to stop the cutting.
• Sales are OPEN for the 2019 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar! The theme of next year’s calendar is Health/Care, and it features art and writing from current and former political prisoners like David Gilbert, Mike and Chuck Africa, and Laura Whitehorn. If you buy 10 or more, be sure to use the discount code “BULK” to get 10 or more calendars for $10 each—you can then sell the calendars to fundraise for your own organizing. Orders start shipping September 10!
• Call in to support Imam Hasan, Silenced on Death Row in Ohio! Sample script can be found here.
• Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write Greg Curry, who was unjustly targeted after the Lucasville uprising:

  Greg Curry #213–159 OSP 878 Coitsville-Hubbard Rd Youngstown, OH 44505 USA

  September 26th is his birthday and he’s asking people to make T-shirts that say “Free Greg Curry” on them, with “GregCurry.org” on the back and send photos of yourself wearing it to his Facebook page!

• We have a Twitter! Follow @HotwireWeekly and send us news that we should include in the show.
• Corrections and Clarifications
  • The looting discussed in our interview took place at a Family Dollar, not at a Dollar General.