Benefit for Tristan Anderson July 10th

Posted on July 7, 2009

Got this from a friend and wanted to pass the word on for everyone in the Bay Area.  Tristan is a friend who was recently shot in the head and seriously wounded by the Israeli military while participating in a nonviolent protest in Palestine against the Israeli border wall that cuts through and annexes large portions of Palestein.   He is currently back in the US and in serious condition and his family needs all the help they can get.

Hello friends,

If you haven’t seen our movie “Shutdown” we are showing it as a benefit next Friday July,10th at 7pm at Ak Press for our fearless friend and comrade, Tristan Anderson, who is still in the hospital in serious condition after being shot in the face by the Israeli Defense Forces while protesting Israel’s Apartheid wall on March 13th, 2009.

Tristan is one of the many activists who appear in the movie discussing issues of social justice and movement building strategy. He has taken such a blow in the fight against injustice and because of his actions for a free Palestine with the International Solidarity Movement that we need everyone to come and support a comrade and friend who needs our love and solidarity. For more about Tristan,  his medical condition and to donate online please go to http://justicefortristan.org/

All proceeds from the event will go directly to aid Tristan’s medical and life needs.

We will have food, drinks, music and room for discussion.
Thanks,

In struggle,

Jonathan, Beca, Helia

Sticks and Stones Productions

AK Press 674-A 23rd. St Oakland, CA

b/t MLK and San Pablo – near 19th St. BART and West Grand Exit of 80/980
For more info contact:
AK Press at 510.208.1700, akpress@akpress.org or visit www.akpress.org
All events at AK Press are wheelchair accessible.

MORE INFO ON THE MOVIE:

Shutdown the movie is the latest video release from AK Press:

“Re-creating the fervor of the era…Shutdown may inspire some to take the streets again”- SF weekly

“Shutdown does exactly what I expect any good activist documentary to do. It gives Props to our hard won victories and gives time and space to figure out our failures.” – Left Turn Magazine

On March 20, 2003—the day after the (most recent) Iraq war started—San Francisco was brought to a grinding halt by thousands of activists who occupied the streets to oppose the war. It was a mass uprising that forced the police to declare the financial district “shut down.” The planning and outreach coordinated by Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW), filled downtown San Francisco with approximately 15,000 people clogging traffic, stopping business as usual, communicating with passersby, and creating a pandemonium that lasted for several days. But neither DASW nor the mass resistance outlasted Iraq’s occupation.

Shutdown is an action-packed documentary chronicling how DASW successfully organized effort to shut down a major US city and how they failed to effectively maintain the organization to fight the war machine and end the occupation of Iraq.

Created by organizers involved with DASW, Shutdown combines detailed information on organizing for a mass action, critical interviews on organizing pitfalls, and the wisdom of hindsight. It is a must-see film for those engaged in the continuous struggle toward social justice.

check out www.shutdownthemovie.com for more info

The Police State strikes again.

Posted on May 18, 2009

Just in case anyone who reads my blog still has illusions about the federal government respecting our fundamental human right to free speach, free assembly, and protest (rights recognized by, but not in any way originating with the first amendment of the bill of rights); here’s yet another wakeup call.  This one from the DesMoines Register, a mainstream publication not known for their radical sympathies.

FBI infiltrated Iowa anti-war group before GOP convention

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090517/NEWS/905170341

By WILLIAM PETROSKI
© 2009, Des Moines Register and Tribune Company
May 17, 2009

An FBI informant and an undercover Minnesota sheriff’s deputy spied on political activists in Iowa City last year before the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.

Confidential FBI documents obtained by The Des Moines Register show an FBI informant was planted among a group described as an “anarchist collective” that met regularly last year in Iowa City. One of the group’s goals was to organize street blockades to disrupt the Republican convention, held Sept. 1-4, 2008, where U.S. Sen. John McCain was nominated for president.

The undercover Minnesota deputy who traveled to Iowa City was from the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department, which infiltrated a group known as the “RNC Welcoming Committee” that was coordinating convention protest activities in St. Paul.

The undercover officer accompanied two activists from the Twin Cities who attended the University of Iowa in April 2008 for a Midwest campus anti-war conference.

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Mayday in Linz

Posted on May 3, 2009

I just got this from a friend in Austria and wanted to post it up for ya’ll.

I live in a rather very small city in Austria. The only reason people from outside the country might know of it is because we are currently the cultural capitol of Europe according to the EU. It’s not a particularly good reason, but it’s a reason. In any case ever since 1991 a coalition of communists, anarchists and generally anti-fascists has organized an alternative mayday demonstration in Linz. Up until this year it was just a quiet, peaceful demonstration with no particular incidents. This year however it wasn’t as quiet. This is the article from indymedia.at that I translated into English, I thought you should know this so that news may spread further, maybe, in any case.

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