On the night of July 4th, a small group of individuals had a noise demonstration at the local jail. We shouted to those held captive, lit off fireworks and smoke bombs, and scattered hundreds of leaflets. There is no point in waiting until there are enough people, until the time […]
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Received June 20th 2016: Here is a short run-down of events and actions that occurred in Bloomington related to the June 11th international day of solidarity with Marius Mason and all long-term anarchist prisoners: – A benefit in late May raised over $350 for anarchist prisoners. – A benefit dance […]
On the night of June 11th, as a small gesture, we smashed out the windows of the probation office. The police, courts, and prisons constitute a web of control that seeks to crush human beings, forcing conformity to a social order of hierarchy and exploitation. While this manifests itself as […]
Received February 18th: Responding to the call for solidarity with Fernando Bárcenas, we hung a banner with words of support for our comrade. Fernando is an anarchist imprisoned by the Mexican state for burning a Coca-Cola tree during a demonstration against the rise of Metro ticket prices. We hope that […]
Received February 4th: We hung a banner in solidarity with Sean Swain’s struggles against the prison system in Ohio. Despite repeatedly being transferred and having his communications cut off, Sean remains uncompromising in his pursuit of freedom, putting his life on the line in struggle against the state. We keep […]
Received January 3rd along with the image: “Combative memory defines us as individuals taking a stand in our negation of the existent, forces us to push the memory of our fallen comrades beyond reflecting on how they were snatched from us, bringing them into our everyday lives in many forms […]
In the spirit of Black December, we hung a banner as a gesture of solidarity to all anarchists in prison, all those on the run, and all those fallen in combat with the state. This is a minor act, one of many daily manifestations of our solidarity with imprisoned comrades. […]
A banner was hung in Bloomington in response to the call for an international week of solidarity with anarchist prisoners, August 23–30. via Rififi Bloomington | in German, Greek
On July 3rd, there was a solidarity demonstration against repression in Mexico, organized outside the Mexican Consulate in Indianapolis, USA. The text of the flyer distributed during the demonstration: On June 16, 2015, the Anarchist Black Cross-Mexico, an anti-repression organization, released word describing an escalation of the harassment and surveillance […]
This year, Bloomington held a week of activities leading up to June 11th: June 2: A benefit raised $350 for Eric King, an anarchist held captive in Kansas awaiting trial for an alleged incendiary attack on a Congressman’s office. June 6: An assembly was held to discuss prison projects and […]
Yesterday, August 20th, California prison hunger strikers were on their 44th day without food. There are over 100 striking at this time, demanding an end to enforced snitching through mandated “exit debriefs” in which inmates are asked about the gang status of other prisoners, among other things. This banner was […]
Click here to read a solidarity statement released in conjunction with the end of the campus strike at IU, in Bloomington, Indiana.