[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] Event on anti-police organizing?

Thu Jul 28 23:30:03 UTC 2011

I have no objection to the event being at the Brick. I'd also think that
with the issues with police arresting and treating individuals with mental
health concerns and potential psychiatric diagnoses unfairly, this could
also be a potential discussion point.

Megan Osborn
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*"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands
explained." -Mark Twain
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Nathan Stickel
<incoherentnickle at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Mo, I was actually going to call y'all soon about coming and giving input
> in the conversation. I was thinking of dropping a line to the Defenders and
> RIHD as well to see if they would be interested in coming out, although
> Patrick said he was definitely looking for an anarchist perspective on
> things, but others were welcome of course.
>
> I don't know how a larger community conversation could go with this
> specific event. It sounds like these folks won't be around long, and I don't
> have the facilitation skills to necessarily handle something like that....If
> that is what people would like to see though, I'd love to help in some other
> way. I personally think this would be a great event for the Flying Brick,
> since many people who frequent the space aren't involved in stuff like this
> currently, so it would be a great educational experience.
>
> Unless anyone has any objections, I'd like to give him the go ahead on
> coming and doing it at the Brick. There have also been recent developments
> in Seattle around a Queer visibility event, and currently 26 people have
> been arrested after 2 actions. So the conversation will definitely intersect
> with queer issues as well. Especially since the shootings last year were of
> a black man and a man of indigenous decent, I think this has the potential
> to be a great discussion around intersecting struggles.
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:23 PM, MO xvx <xveganarchistrvax at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> The 7th is also a Wednesday, which is Wingnut Open Hours so it would be
>> really easy for us to host that event on that night.
>>
>>  I feel like a lot of people involved at the Wingnut are involved in the
>> things that Patrick mentions- anti-police work, anti-jail work, anarchism,
>> monroe park occupation, copwatch and the released RPD documents, the VCU
>> riots, etc.  So we have definite interest around these topics, but it would
>> also be cool if more people wanted to have a larger community discussion
>> about these things too.
>>
>> Mo
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:27 PM, allison libertine <allibertine at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
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>>> I think this would be a really awesome event for the Brick. See you at
>>> the meeting Monday!
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>>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:21 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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