Portland Anarchist Black Cross

SCOTT CROW AT THE RED AND BLACK, Saturday NOV 3,  7-9 PM, SE 12th & Oak, Portland

Screening of the Jamie Meltzer documentary “informant.” Scott Crow provides commentary in this film which follows one time fellow activist Brandon Darby and Darby’s transition from anarchist activist to FBI informant. Scott Crow is an anarchist community organizer and writer based in Austin, TX. As co-founder of the Common Ground Collective, he worked with Common Ground co-founder Brandon Darby, who later became an informant for the FBI. “informant” chronicles the actions of Darby with commentary by Crow and others who describe the impact that Darby had on their lives. Darby was known as a hero of radical activists organizing in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, but later he allied himself with right wing forces helping to entrap protesters at the 2008 Republican convention (depicted in the documentary Better This World). Participating in re-enactments in “informant” Darby opens up to explain his motives.  http://www.informantdoc.com/  Event is free.  

Scott crow  is a community organizer, writer, strategist and speaker who advocates the philosophy and practices of anarchism for social, environmental, and economic aims.  From his home in Austin scott currently works at Ecology Action an anarchist worker-run recycling center cooperative, consults in building worker cooperatives, travels for speaking, and organizes projects. In his spare time, he and his partner bike around town, raise a barnyard of funny animals and dream of sustainable futures.

ALSO: PDXABC Open Meeting, Tuesday, October 30, 6pm. Red & Black Cafe.  Then at 7pm, write to a person in prison, or sign a birthday card to a prisoner.  We will also be signing a get well card to a long time Books to Prisoners/ Portland Indymedia volunteer who was in a horrible wreck.  She is in traction in the hospital and needs cheering up.  Join us Tuesday!

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In early October, Denver ABC held a letter writing night with a focus around the recent flurry of grand jury repression being faced by anarchists in the Pacific Northwest.  Below is a note from KTeeO, currently incarcerated in Seattle for her refusal to cooperate with the grand jury.  She asked Denver to share this message across ABC sites.

“I want to thank you all for all the work that you do – prisoner support, like most support work, is all too often overlooked;  but i know that what y’all do makes it possible for me to do what I am doing. I am doing fine – thanks in large part to all of the support that I have been receiving.  Being on the inside I am constantly reminded that every prisoner is a political prisoner – and that incarceration affects everyone, knowing that so many of y’all share these sentiments with me inspires me and makes me feel connected.

Anyway, thank you again.

Keep smiling.  Keep struggling.

In solidarity,

Kteeo

Katherine Olejnik 42592-086
FDC SeaTac
P.O. Box 13900
Seattle, WA 98198

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Amazon and Cat, are anti-civilization trans insurgents who are associated with Gender Anarky; a collective within the CA prison system.  They have been on hunger strike against the unfair treatment of trans women within R.J Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County.  Prison officials refuse to take Amazon and Cat off of single-cell status because of their gender identity.  We can support Amazon and Cat by calling to demand that Eva Contreraz (C-45857) and Catarina LaPre (K-67313) be taken off single-cell status and be allowed to share a cell.  Demand an end to the discriminatory housing policy against trans women in the correctional facility.

Call Warden Paramo the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility: (619) 661-6500

Write to Amazon and Cat:

Let them know you support their struggle against the the prison administration.  They can be reached at:

Eva Contreraz C-45857
PO Box 799003 (C15-223)
San Diego, CA 92179-9003

Catarina LePre K-67313
PO Box 799003
San Diego, CA 92179-9003

https://genderanarky.wordpress.com/

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Eco activist Tim DeChristopher is scheduled to be released on October 24, 2012, to a halfway house in Salt Lake City, where he will serve out the last remaining 6 months of a 2 year sentence.  His plans are reportedly to work at a Salt Lake unitarian church as part of a work release program.  Tim has already spent 18 months in prison(s) for disrupting the transfer of public land to the oil and gas industry.  In 2008, he attended a fossil fuel exploration land-lease auction and posing as a bidder, won a few leases before anyone figured out he was an activist.  Ultimately, Tim raised the money to pay for the leases but the US government refused to accept the payment. The whole auction was declared invalid and Tim was charged with misrepresenting himself at an auction. (Do you have the feeling they are making up these “crimes” as they go along?)  At his trial, the jury wasn’t allowed to consider the auction had been invalidated, or that the government refused to accept Tim’s payment for the leases he won. Tim was convicted, appealed, lost, and thus now enters the gray area between prison, and not quite prison.  Tim is no less committed for the experience and his goal is now to go to graduate school.  As he said in an interview, “The rules are written by those who profit from the status quo. … If we want to change that status quo we have to step outside of those rules. We have to put pressure on those within the political system to choose one side or another.”

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From Free Pax:  We would like to say ‘thank you’ to all who have extended solidarity to Pax (Bryan Wiedeman) throughout this situation. We hope that similar solidarity will be displayed in other instances of repression–political repression as well as policing-as-usual that operates along class-based, racist and patriarchal lines.

Pax accepted a plea deal on October 1st for three counts of criminal mischief in the first degree. He was arrested last May and was initially charged with 72 felonies — something about vandalizing ATM’s.  The non-cooperating plea deal includes 5 years supervised probation, 20 days of weekend jail, 80 hours of community service, and $43084.59 restitution.  (Wow, I’m no math wizard but that sounds like a pile.) The discrepancy between the original charges and the anti-climactic outcome is evidence that the prosecution was politically motivated, said Kristian Williams, with the Committee Against Political Repression. “The police don’t ordinarily kick down doors with guns drawn over simple vandalism,” says Williams, “and the attempt to inflate the case to felony conspiracy is pretty shameful. Clearly the whole affair was politically motivated.” PDXABC hopes Pax can get this mess behind him soon and we do wish the PoPo would stop over reacting to everything.   Quit blasting away at every moving thing.  Remember: Not everyone is a good driver, which does not necessarily entitle you to run them off the road in your off hours with your personal vehicle in order to confront them with your gun.  Not everyone displays good judgment at all times; probably not a valid criteria for jumping up and down on their chest cavity until it caves in, or shooting them in the back after having done your utmost to scare the bejesus out of them in the first place.  Just stay calm.  Lay off the caffeine and performance enhancing steroids – those eventually lead to testicular cancer, you know.  Then, in addition to being unreasonable,  you’ll also become copilopiflopulous – or put another way; out of plumb.

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