Anarchists in Washington, DC

submitted by Potomac Earth First!

Honor the Fallen, Remember the Snitches, Resist the GreenScare

On December 7, 2005, The F.B.I. and local law enforcement began a round up, of alleged environmental and animal rights activists. This attack was not just on radical environmentalists this attack was on the entire environmental movement and American people. Like the Red Scare in the 40’s, 20’s, and turn of the 20th century the radical left was attacked in the same way which lead to an over all weakening of the progressive movement.

On December 7th we ask you to organize your college campus, community, or what ever it maybe to hold an event in solidarity with those who have been rounded up by the F.B.I. Be it demo at the local police department, movie on radical environmental, animal rights activism, (Behind the mask and Pick Axe are two good examples) or letter writing campaigns.

On December, 8th 2007 Potomac Earth First! is calling for a Green and Black anti-authoritarian march to the FBI Headquarters to demand that these alleged activists be freed and all charges dropped! We will be starting Farragut Square and marching to the F.B.I headquarters from there at 1:00 p.m. Look for the Green and Black Flags of Potomac Earth First!

For more information please e-mail: potomacearthfirst [at] gmail.com

download a flyer for the march (jpg)

Meetings are held on a rotating schedule in DC, Frederick, Sheperdstown and possibly Hagerstown or Baltimore. Email the above address for more info.

Benefit Concert and Silent Art Auction for the Common Ground Collective -
post-Katrina relief organization.

Letelier Theater - 3251 Prospect Street, NW DC
near the Foggy Bottom Metro

November 30th- 7:30pm
$7 donation

Featured Performers:
Head-Roc (hardcore hiphop)
Chris Chandler (antifolk goodness)
Everlutionary (rhythm & words)
Everything Must Go (writhing & noise featuring the Thing with The Stuff, Ika
and Clay)
tWIN eARTH (independently-minded drone rock)

Donated artwork by:
Chris Chandler, Clay Harris, Lydia Prentiss, Dale Hunt and more!

The National Conference on Organized Resistance is an annual event that brings together people from all backgrounds for a weekend of learning and discussing local and international social justice issues through workshops, panel discussions, and skillshares. This year in particular at NCOR, we are focusing on how the problems facing Washington DC and the resistance to those problems reflect struggles on both the national and the international level. We are also seeking workshops that span both the geography and subject matter of a variety of experiences.

This year’s NCOR will be held from March 7- 9, in 2008 at American University in Washington, D.C. As we move into our eleventh year, we are curating the most diverse and successful NCOR in its notable history.

NCOR attendees this year will make this vision a reality as much as the people who curate it: as volunteers, as workshop leaders, as discussion participants, you determine its successful outcome. We hope you will join us to make NCOR 2008 an inclusive and diverse forum for global resistance.

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Critical Mass rides in DC on the first Friday of every month, meeting at Dupont Circle at 6:00. For current info, view the DC Critical Mass email list archives, or join the email list.

Critical Mass is a monthly group bicycle ride to celebrate bicycles and their right to the road. Other non-motorized wheeled vehicles are welcome (unicycles, skates, etc.). Critical Mass events are held in various cities throughout the world, with no formal organization/leadership.

Critical Mass flyer #1
Critical Mass flyer #2

The 2007 Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair, bringing together radical and independent publishers, distributors, bookstores, and authors for a weekend of workshops, panel discussions, and performances, all free and open to the public, will take place on October 20th and 21st.

As an added bonus this year, there’s also a Radical Film Festival on October 19th to kick things off.

The bookfair will be taking place in Baltimore at 2640, the new cooperative events venue and social center launched this year by Red Emma’s.

Discussion on Arab Voices of Resistance to “The New Middle East”
plus screening of the documentaryA Summer Not to Forget
Presented by Left Turn Magazine

Saturday, October 20, 2007 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
The Upstairs at Skewers/Cafe Luna, 1633 P St, NW, Washington, DC
More info: leftturn-dc@onebox.com

The full impact and significance of Israel’s war on Lebanon during the summer of 2006 has yet to be fully understood.

The nearly year long stand off between the US backed Lebanese government and the Hezbollah led opposition as well as a several month standoff between the military and Fatah al Islam, a Salafi islamist group sympathetic to Al-Qaeda, at the Nahr al Bared Palestinian refugee camp, are related to the war. These and other crises have contributed to sectarian tensions and a feeling that the country is on the brink of another civil war.

On the positive side, had Israel’s invasion not been repelled, the Lebanese government would’ve become another building block in the US’s efforts to construct a “New Middle East”, the fate of Palestinian refugees in Lebanese camps would’ve been precarious, and an attack on Iran more imminent.

Come hear Bilal El-Amine and Samah Idriss – two Lebanese writers and activists who helped get the truth out about the war and challenge many of the distortions about the resistance to it – discuss what’s happening in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq and what the US’s vision of a New Middle East means for the people of the Middle East.

There will also be a screening of Lebanese film maker Carol Mansour’s short documentary on the war, A Summer Not to Forget

In support of the call to action issued by the RNC Welcoming Committee, Unconventional Action is seeking endorsements for the strategy consensed upon at the “pReNC,” a national planning consulta a year in advance of the Republican National Convention.

• RNC Welcoming Committee Call to Action
• pReNC Reportback

If your group endorses this strategy, please contact Unconventional Action at unconventional_action@mountainrebel.net. Groups that respond by mid-October will be listed in the print version of the call to action, which will be circulated nationwide; all endorsements will be listed at Unconventional Action as they come in. Specify whether you desire contact information to appear with your endorsement.

It is important for a strategy like this to be publicly endorsed by groups that hope to see it succeed. This gives the strategy visibility and shows that many people are invested in it, which in turn enables others to invest themselves in its success.

Send endorsements, questions, and requests for further information to:
unconventional_action@mountainrebel.net

We’ve gotten a couple emails asking about the October protests. Below are two websites of groups organizing for this action.

Please keep in mind that this website, Anarchist Resistance, is not an organization, we’re just a few individuals posting events that we hear about (although many of us are members of various groups). Please contact the organizations listed below directly if you have questions about the protests. If you know of any other events you want us to post here, please let us know.

October Coalition - Actions against neoliberalism, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. This website is a clearinghouse for information about the planning process and the upcoming actions. Events scheduled for October 18-21, including workshops and trainings, unpermitted march in Georgetown on Friday, and march from Franklin Square to Murrow Park on Saturday.

No War No Warming - From October 21-22, 2007, join a global movement rising up against war and global warming by participating in a massive intervention in Washington DC or your own community. We need to take immediate action to: STOP the war in Iraq and future resource wars by ending our addiction to fossil fuels. SHIFT government funding to rebuild New Orleans and all communities suffering from racism and corporate greed. GO green and promote environmental justice with new jobs in a clean energy economy. Events in Washington, DC, with solidarity actions in other locations.

Friday, October 5, 2007 - 7:00-11:00 pm

$5 - 10 Sliding Scale
to Benefit Political Prisoner Daniel McGowan

Defiance, Ohio
The Max Levine Ensemble
Plus one more TBA

at St. Stephens Church
1525 Newton St. NW (between 15th and 16th Streets)
Washington, DC
North of the Columbia Heights Metro on the Green Line

Daniel McGowan is a social and environmental justice activist and political prisoner who was arrested and charged in federal court on multiple counts of arson and conspiracy, relating to the arson of Superior Lumber company in Glendale, Oregon on January 2, 2001 and Jefferson Poplar Farms in Clatskanie, Oregon on May 21, 2001 claimed by the Earth Liberation Front. McGowan was facing a minimum of life in prison if convicted when he accepted a non-cooperation plea agreement on November 9, 2006. His arrest is part of what the US government has dubbed Operation Backfire.

New York native McGowan has worked on many activist issues including military counter-recruitment, demonstrations against the Republican National Convention, the Really Really Free Market, and the support of prisoners such as Jeff “Free” Luers and others. At the time of his arrest McGowan was a graduate student earning a Master’s degree in acupuncture and an employee of WomensLaw.org, a nonprofit group that helps women in domestic abuse situations navigate the legal system. He is currently working on another Master’s degree while serving a 7 year prison sentence.

For more information on Daniel McGowan: SupportDaniel.org.

Date: Sunday, August 19
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: 1419 Gallatin St NW, Washington, DC

On August 19, Brian MacKenzie Infoshop will be hosting a BIG, HUGE, FABULOUS yard sale to raise money for the Infoshop’s moving fund.

That’s right. The BMI is looking to move in the next year as we see our lease expire and look forward to finding a bigger, more flexible and functional space to grow our work, the store front and collaborations with activist and organizations in DC.

Come out to the yard sale and help the BMI raise some much needed funds to get us moving! There’s bound to be some great stuff you’ve just been dying to find, like a new board game or a juicer, maybe even a new piece of furniture.