The Hotwire #18: Toxic Waste in STL—Labor Struggles in the Techno Age—A Rant on Love

The second episode of our second season! There is antifa activity in Olympia, Athens, and Seattle. Vaneesa Hopson died while in the custody of Olympia police and we report on the death and the subsequent protests.. There are strikes by delivery drivers across Hong Kong and Europe, by prisoners detained at an immigrant detention center in Washington, and walkouts across the country as part of the Fight for 15 campaign. We interview an anarchist active in the resistance to the Westlake Landfill. In honor of Valentine’s Day there’s a rant against conventional love. Stay tuned until the Repression Roundup to hear about the Black Pride 4. {February 14, 2018}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:00}
  • Headlines {2:23}
  • Interview {10:00}
  • Rant on Love {17:40}
  • Anarchist media roundup {23:12}
  • Repression Roundup {24:15}
  • Next Week’s News {29:12}
• J20 support resources:
  • J20 Legal Defense Fund
  • Twitter
  • Fed book
  • An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful dos and don’ts
  • Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained
• Other anarchist shows mentioned in this Hotwire:
  • [IGDCast from May 11, 2017, Featuring an Interview with Maru Mora]https://itsgoingdown.org/igdcast-maru-villalpando-on-hunger-strikes-northwest-detention-facility/)
  • Ex-Worker 32: White Supremacy and Capitalism, From 1492 to Ferguson
  • Ex-Worker 40: Struggles Against White Supremacy and Police Since Ferguson.
  • The Ex-Worker 36: The Rojava Revolution
  • The Ex-Worker 39: The Rojava Revolution, Part II
  • The Final Straw: Şoreş Ronahi on Turkish assaults on Afrin Canton, Rojava, Syria
• CrimethInc. texts mentioned in this Hotwire:
  • What We Need from You How You Can Help with CrimethInc. Projects
  • “Join the Resistance, Fall in Love”
  • Immigrants Welcome stickers
  • Borders: The Global Caste System posters
  • No Wall They Can Build
• Go here are more details about the hunger strike at the Northwest Immigrant Detention Center in Tacoma, WA.
• View the video on Rojava’s new ecological initiative here
• View the Submedia video on the Kinder Morgan pipeline lockdown here
• Full report on housing struggles [taking place across the country](https://itsgoingdown.org/across-the-us-tenants-are-launching-rent-strikes/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
• Go to the this Facebook page to find out how to support the Black Pride 4.
• Check out this statement of support for Tariq Khan from the Campus Antifascist Network. To support Tariq, please send respectful but firm e-mails to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Office of Student Conflict Resolution, Assistant Dean of Students, Rony Die: ronydie@illinois.edu and Associate Dean of Students, Justin Brown: justbrow@illinois.edu. The full interview done by It’s Going Down, can be found here.
• Write to imprisoned CopWatcher Ramsey Orta: Ramsey Orta, 16A4200 112 Scotch Settlement Rd Gouverneur, NY 13642 Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross.