Atlanta

Reading Group: Breaking with Consensus Reality

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 3:39pm
Date/Time: 
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 5:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: 
Java Monkey Coffee Atlanta, GA
United States
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We decided last time to read "Breaking with Consensus Reality."

http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2012/04/23/breaking-with-consensus-reality/

From the text:

"We who fight to create a freer world face a fundamental contradiction. On one hand, we don’t want to become a vanguard, “leading” or imposing our will on others, as that would run counter to our anti-authoritarian values. On the other hand, we believe with good justification that our political goals—including the destruction of capitalism, the state, and hierarchy—can’t be accomplished without strategies that are currently unpalatable to most of our fellow citizens. The impoverishment of millions and the destruction of our ecosystems demand that we act decisively. What criteria will equip us to challenge these systems without resorting to the authoritarian means we condemn?"

 

 

 

New Materials for the Eager Combatant

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 11:43pm


From https://blackdoordistro.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/new-materials-for-the-e...

May 3, 2013

New Materials for the Eager Combatant

In light of recent anti-police activity here in Atlanta, we present a newly formatted version of the essay “Don’t Die Wondering: Atlanta Against the Police Winter 2011-2012.” The essay, which first appeared on a local blog seven months ago, catalogues a series of anti-police actions taken in Atlanta. “Don’t Die Wondering” includes exciting report-backs from the events, an extensive timeline, analysis produced from participants of the struggle, and a few pictures. This version of the text has been re-edited and contains an afterword written this spring.

From the piece

21-year-old anti-fascist protester assaulted by police and arrested on Saturday, April 20, 2013

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 04/21/2013 - 3:01pm

A 21-year-old woman was assaulted by the police and arrested yesterday while legally and non-violently protesting the Klan / Neo-Nazi / anti-immigrant demonstration that was going on at the Georgia Capitol in downtown Atlanta. She also faced extensive misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ sexual harassment during booking.

Partial coverage is at [ http://eastatlanta.patch.com/blog_posts/nazis-and-kkk-protest-atlanta-fr... ].

Any eyewitnesses and anyone with video or photos of the assault and arrest need to contact 2013.04.20.atlanta@gmail.com as soon as possible. Please spread the word!

Reportback on Anti-fascist Actions in Atlanta (April 19th and 20th)

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 04/20/2013 - 10:28pm

On April 20th, about 200 people gathered to protest an anti-immigration rally being held by the neo-nazi group, National Socialist Movement and the Klu Klux Klan.

There were only about 40 fascists present at the rally - in contrast to the 200 people prepared to counter it. Counter-protesters held two banners, one reading  "Remember Tinley Park?" and "(A) - fight fascists". The surrounding streets were also adorned with some antifascist propaganda.

No Nazis Allowed in ATL

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 04/20/2013 - 12:31pm

This poster is made to be printed on 11x17 paper and posted throughout Atlanta.

Text from the poster:

FUCK NAZIS

Saturday, Saturday April 20

At 2:30pm, the National Socialist Movement is holding an anti-immigration rally at the Georgia state capitol. The Atlanta government and the neo-nazis are on the same side of this conflict. Their efforts to displace the problems that riddle this world onto "outsiders" is nothing more than a convenient distraction from the problems themselves. This is not a neutral issue of "free speech"; a capitalist, sexist and white supremacist logic of domination governs this world. These systems of power trap us, creating divisions that keep us from finding each other and dismantling it together.

 

Atlanta Solidarity Network vs. AJC Meeting

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/17/2013 - 7:58pm
Date/Time: 
Thu, 04/18/2013 - 9:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: 
Joe's Coffee
510 Flat Shoals Ave SE
Atlanta, GA
United States
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The struggle continues! Join the Atlanta Solidarity Network as we continue our fight with the AJC. So far we've: delivered a demand letter, flyered the building, got kicked out of the building, flyered the building again, got banned from the building, warned the workers that the job is a SCAM, flagged their craigslist postings, and possiably got my boss fired. What's next?

 Possible topics to discuss:

- Where do we go from here?

- Should we focus on just the AJC now that she's fired?

- How should we frame the strategy?

- How can we make it so this dosen't keep hapening to our fellow workers?

 

More info here: http://atlanta.indymedia.org/local/atlanta-solidarity-network-delivers-d...

 

CALL TO ACTION AGAINST NEO-NAZI NSM RALLY AT GA STATE CAPITOL

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/16/2013 - 2:30pm


According to the Georgia State Capitol Events webpage, The neo-nazi organization National Socialist Movement (NSM) along with other racist white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan will be holding their 2013 National meeting & anti-immigration rally in Atlanta and it's no coincidence that they are doing it on Hitler's birthday. Although the meeting is being held in an undisclosed location, here is the info for the rally:

WHEN: SATURDAY APRIL 20, 2013 at 2:30 PM
WHERE: THE GEORGIA STATE CAPITOL -- 206 Washington Street SW Atlanta, GA 30334 (close to GSU MARTA Station)

This call to action is really short notice, but these racist pieces of shit aren't fucking welcome here or anywhere so get together with your ppl and come out to make sure they know this!!!!!!!! Bring banners, drums, pots, pans, whatever.

 

Anarchist Reading Group: Compilation of Desired Readings

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 8:29am

At the first iteration of this round of "An Atlanta Anarchist Reading" a list was compiled of all the things the people present wanted to read. It seemed to be the case that this list could be referenced and that subsequent texts would be chosen from it. (It also seemed to be the case that a new list could be sent around so that new, more relevant texts could be added as things occured.)

Here is the list so everyone can read it. (In no particular order)

- Autonomous Self Organization and Anarchist Intervention: A Tension in Practice - Wolfi Landstriecher

- Call - Anonymous

- The Anarchist Tension - Alfredo M. Bonanno

- Who is Oakland?: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation

- Fire Extinguishers and Fire Starters: Anarchist Interventions in the Spanish Revolution

- "This thing not yet written about gender and the insurrectionary subject"

- Something from LIES: A 2012 journal of materialist feminism

Anarchist Reading Group: Lines in the Sand

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 8:06am
Date/Time: 
Sun, 04/28/2013 - 5:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: 
Java Monkey Coffee Shop Atlanta, GA
United States
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The next Anarchist reading group will discuss the pamphlet Lines in the Sand by Peter Gelderloos

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/Peter_Gelderloos__Lines_in_Sand.html

Excerpt from the text:

There is a line that divides many people whose struggles I respect. I won’t name this line or define either camp, to avoid entrenching them, and I don’t know of any fair definitions that have been put forward by any of those involved in this antagonism. Most of us are familiar with the strawmen that litter this battlefield, though. Those on one side are guilty of “identity politics,” those on the other are “privileged” or “dogmatic.”

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New Heat Index blog post//"Edgewood: Tensions Increase Between the Poor and Police"

Submitted by wobbly plumber on Wed, 04/10/2013 - 11:18pm

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Hey folks, please check out this new article by one of our collective members. It's his take on the recent police violence in Edgewood (Atlanta), the reasons surrounding it, and the resistance that's growing.

http://www.heatindexatl.info/archives/530

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