[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] Event on anti-police organizing?

[Kris Woetzel]

I will definitely go to this, regardless of who's hosting. Count me among
the interested!

Kris

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Nathan Stickel
<incoherentnickle at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 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
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> Nathan
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