[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] Event on anti-police organizing?

Ramey Connelly rameysaurus at gmail.com
Sun Jul 31 16:14:28 UTC 2011 

I dunno if you've already done it or not Nathan, but it seems like a  
lot of positive feedback on this event, so I say definitely go for it!  
Excited to see this coming to the Brick!

Ramey

On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Megan Osborn wrote:

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> 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.
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> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Nathan Stickel <incoherentnickle at gmail.com 
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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.
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> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:23 PM, MO xvx  
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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.
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>  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.
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> Mo
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> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:27 PM, allison libertine <allibertine at gmail.com 
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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 
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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 is a good read, and this 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 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.)
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> 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.
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> What do you say?
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> Patrick
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