[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] Event on anti-police organizing?

[Nathan Stickel]

So I received this email the other day, and I wanted to see what y'all
thought about this idea for an event? Do you think this will be a good event
for the Library? Hope to hear from y'all soon!

A friend and I would like to speak about anarchist participation in the
anti-police struggles that erupted in Seattle last winter.  (In case you
aren't familiar with the particulars and would like to read about it,
this<http://pugetsoundanarchists.org/node/595>is a good read, and
this <http://pugetsoundanarchists.org/node/260> covers some but not all of
the events.)  We were both heavily involved in the demonstrations, actions,
assemblies, etc.  We both also participated in a talk in Berkeley at the
Bastard conference this year on the subject, and I was on a panel at the SF
bookfair with folks from Oakland and Greece about strategies in anti-police
struggle, which you can check out here
<http://pugetsoundanarchists.org/node/595>if interested.

This talk will be similar to all that, but also unique.  We would like to
speak specifically to anarchists and anti-authoritarians (although others
are of course welcome as well), treating the talk as an inter-city
discussion of strategies.  We would like to spend some time talking
specifically about anti-cop struggle generally, our analyses of the
situation in Seattle, how anarchists developed strategies and enacted them,
what went right, what went wrong, and how the moment of rupture eventually
ended.  We would also like to use our time in Richmond to hear from
anarchists and anti-authoritarians about recent and upcoming struggles
there.  (For example, it's my understanding that in about the last year,
there has been a fight around Monroe Park and gentrification, including an
occupation, the accidental leaking of RPD documents, a small sports riot, a
death in the city jail, and upcoming plans for a new prison.)

We will only be in Richmond for one night--September 7th.  We step off the
plane at 6:30 PM and we would like to start the talk at 8 PM.

What do you say?

Patrick



-- 
Always with Solidarity

Nathan
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