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Blue Ridge ABC
@blueridgeabc.bsky.social
Antirepression group operating in so-called Asheville. Monthly events & more info at BRABC.BlackBlogs.Org
Please read this update regarding the #PrairielandDefendants & the pressure the state has been using on them to accept plea deals

Also visit dfwdefendants.wordpress.com & write to the defendants to give them more support & connections to the outside

Fundraiser: givesendgo.com/supportDFWpr...
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Monday, 11/3, 9 am- 5 pm
#PHONEZAP !
Transfer Terry Faison from Southern CI
& get him medical care!
November 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
#PhoneZap Monday+ to return prisoner attacked during New Mexico prison race riot back to NC where their support base is & away from immediate, racial targetting
November 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Join BRABC for prisoner letter writing tomorrow, Sunday Nov 2nd from 3-5pm at @firestorm.coop

brabc.noblogs.org/prisoner-let...
November 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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NLG lawyer Moira Meltzer-Cohen speaks about legal implications of the Trump administrations declarations on "antifa", plus a little chat about mutual aid in Gaza

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09...
September 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.
These Dallas Residents Are on the Front Lines of Trump’s War Against “Antifa”
If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.
buff.ly
October 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Is the Trump admin recruiting for The Order? This looks like the cover of a Bob Matthews slash-fiction novel.
October 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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NEW EPISODE 🚨 ANTI-REPRESSION 101: Tune in to hear @deanspade.bsky.social @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social @azohra.bsky.social discuss why the way we talk about political repression matters and five questions everyone should consider to avoid common anti-solidarity traps.
Cultivating Solidarity When Responding to Political Repression with Dean, Zohra, and Jocelyn
Podcast Episode · Outlaw · 10/29/2025 · 1h 1m
podcasts.apple.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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anti-repression groups from different parts of the world have created a solidarity network, 4 of which have accounts on blsky

@abcbelarus.bsky.social
@blueridgeabc.bsky.social
‪@phillyabc.org‬
‪@solidarityapoth.bsky.social‬

learn more about the network & apply on the website:
About Us – Solidarity International
solidarity.international
August 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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This week, we share a panel discussion with anarchists from @abcbelarus.bsky.social (Belarus) , Solidarity Apothecary (UK) and Solidarity Zone (Russia) about prisoner support, care work, burnout and sustaining movements

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/08...
August 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
August 24, 4-6pm at @firestorm.coop, we're discussing the introduction & 1st chapter of Orisanmi Burton's "Tip Of The Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt".
Get the book club discount in-store (but only if you ask in person for it)

brabc.noblogs.org/reading-group/
August 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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NYC media focuses on whether Mamdani should live in rent-stabilized apartment ($2300/month!) instead of why 26,310 NYC rent-stabilized apartments were “vacant but unavailable for rent”

www.thecity.nyc/2024/02/14/r...
Tens of Thousands of Rent-Stabilized Apartments Remain Off the Market During Record Housing Shortage
Landlords kept an estimated 26,000 regulated units offline last year — rekindling a debate about the role of New York’s strict rent laws.
www.thecity.nyc
August 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Long-running anarchist radio show and podcast @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social, speaks on international anarchist prisoner solidarity efforts.
Final Straw: International Solidarity and the 2025 Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners
Long-running anarchist radio show and podcast The Final Straw, speaks on international anarchist prisoner solidarity efforts.  This week, we’re sharing three segments. First up, you’ll hear Yara speak...
itsgoingdown.org
August 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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here's our recent transcribed interview about the federation of anti-authoritarian, anti-repression groups, @soli-international.bsky.social & the affiliated 2025 Week Of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners ( #WOSWAP ). A zine version & much more can be found for free at tfsr.media/zines/#Augus...
August 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Patreon supporters can hear an early release of our interview with Malik Muhammad, a 2020 uprising prisoner in Oregon speaking about conditions, organizing behind bars, #BlackAugust and what gives them hope. Check it out!

www.patreon.com/posts/2020-u...
August 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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The Israelis assassinated AJ journalists Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqa along with their team in Gaza after bombing an AJ tent in front of Al-Shifa hospital

Absolute monsters

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Israel murders four Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif
Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.
www.aljazeera.com
August 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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How thoughtful. How urbane.
The New Yorker not only gave a this monster, this brutal stooge and mechanic of empire a platform in 1998 to muse upon his place in history but is now offering it up again to us. because....
“I was only an aspirante dictator,” Augusto Pinochet told Jon Lee Anderson in 1998. “I read a lot, especially history. And history teaches you that dictators never end up well.”
The Dictator
Augusto Pinochet is almost eighty-three years old, and justifying his actions, clarifying his place in history, is on his mind.
www.newyorker.com
August 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Yara speaks on @soli-international.bsky.social & #WOSWAP, Ausbruch talks with #RoteHilfe on anti-repression in German speaking countries, the Anarchist Assembly of Biobío with Mesa 8 on art, memory & the Chilean Coup, + Sean Swain on Conspiracy Thought

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/08...
August 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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✊🏽 CALL FOR ACTIONS FOR Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners
👉🏽 23 - 30 August 2025
Join with actions, letter writing, lectures, banner drop, movie screening, ....
Please send us pictures & reports to share.
❤️‍🔥Until all are free no one is free!

🫵🏽 solidarity.international
#woswap2025 #WOSWAP
August 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BRABC will gather Sunday July 27th from 4-6pm at @firestorm.coop to discuss two zines, available now behind the counter at Firestorm for free on request. Texts for online reading or printing at brabc.noblogs.org/reading-group/
Starting in August, we'll start Orisanmi Burton's Tip Of The Spear.
July 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Support the legal defense of the 11 arrested related to the noise demo outside Prairieland ICE prison in DFW around July 4th, some facing state level terrorism charges:
givesendgo.com/SupportDFWPr...
July 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
4 years since the #KillTheBill protests, Bristol Defendant Solidarity continues to support prisoners. Donations help cover defendants’ food, travel & accommodations on court days, access to counselling for trauma endured at the hands of police & other essential support needs.
chuffed.org/project/bds
July 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Moira Meltzer-Cohen, a lawyer with the @nlgnews.bsky.social, addresses questions of changes in peoples rights and risks in the USA with the police, searches, borders and other topics

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/06...
June 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Statement by a New Afrikan political prisoner at CSP-Lancaster, written on April 2, 2025, weeks into CDCr’s previous statewide lockdown.
Reissued and shared by them in solidarity with the current hungerstrike at SVSP against the lockdowns.

oaklandabosol.org/2025/06/21/a...
A Call for Community Support on the Issue of Domestic Torture
Statement by a New Afrikan political prisoner at CSP-Lancaster, written on April 2, 2025 approximately, weeks into CDCr’s previous statewide lockdown. Reissued and shared by them in solidarit…
oaklandabosol.org
June 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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what a sleazy bunch of cowards just punching someone's dad in a parking lot while they furtively glance around embarrassed in their stupid gaiter masks
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”

ktla.com/news/local-n...
June 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM