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Histories of State Repression in Greensboro
This panel discussion will focus on a complex history of revolutionary struggle since the early seventies. We will discuss the history of and current possibilities for social and militant organizing in the face of constantly evolving state tactics of repression. A former member of the Communist Worker Party and rank-and-file organizer, will give us the opportunity to discuss the connection between the police state, homegrown terrorist networks, and Capital. We hope to discuss the evolution of state repression from the overt assassination and violent intervention of revolutionary groups in the seventies to the maintenance of constant pressure on communities who struggle for self-determination today.
Criminalization of Youth
An in-depth discussion on the “Student-To-Prison-Pipeline”, sharing recent legal cases that exemplify the struggle and resistance of students within our state-education system. This workshop is designed to demonstrate and challenge: cops in schools, the concept and implementation of “educational rights” for students, the ways in which students’ race and class are tracked within the school system, national and state budget cuts which magnify the crisis of already struggling students and their families, and the ways in which school boards and administrations reproduce a generalized criminalization of young people/students within our society. Most importantly, we will hear from different communities who are exposing, resisting, and desiring to dismantle the educational-criminal-justice system.
Labor History & Struggle in "right to work" states
Few understand the contours of this labor law, its white supremacist and classist history, and its crippling legacy on the ability of workers to unite within the constraints of state law over the last fifty years. With the only labor law on the books acting as a denial of workers rights and a criminalization of organizing, the past fifty years of class struggle has been “wildcat” in nature, in direct defiance of any notion of constraint or protection under the law. With Wisconsin finally catching up to other states in their attack on the working class, it is pressing to openly imagine and critique how workers proceed in defiance and denial of the constraints of formal law. In order to address the insurgent desire to follow suit of this winter’s strikes and occupations in Madison and around the world, we return to the question: Does our precarious labor situation (post-industrial, service-economy, etc.) void traditional forms of labor resistance? Let’s examine the “radicalization” of unions within the occupations, the danger of unions subsuming the power of autonomous self-determination, and emergent affinity and solidarity between workers and non-workers within wildcat and general strikes.
Against Prisons and the World that Creates Them: A workshop on anarchist intervention and “prisoner support”
The last two years have witnessed a stark increase in uprisings and insurrectionary activity around the globe. In all of these situations prisoners have played an integral role; from Greek prison hunger strikes to Lebanese prison riots, from mass escapes in prisons along the US – Mexico border to the largest coordinated prison labor strike in US history, the precarity of the carcereal form is representative of the precarity of global capitalism itself. It is clear that anarchists cannot sit on the sidelines amidst these developments, and in many parts of the world, we have not. Unfortunately, despite an encouraging increase in anarchist demonstrations outside of jails and prisons in the last year, North American anarchists have largely failed to successfully intervene and participate in these struggles in a relevant way. At no time was this more clear than during the Georgia prison strike last December; despite the massive and historic nature of the strike, outside of a few small solidarity demos the vast majority of anarchist communities and “prisoner support”-type organizations were silent.
Crime & Community -
Crime can be pretty sexy. On top of that, it often times shows ways of life that are not only antagonistic to the state, but struggle to exist outside of its control. In response to this we often see people drawn together through crimes, criminal identities, and attempts to survive that conflict with the social order. Alongside these comings together of criminals there are folks alienated from society because of their criminal existence. We’ll tell adventure stories about different criminals and the topics around crime followed by a discussion around how crime can and does shape our communities.
If you chose either of the last two options, congratulations! You may be sympathetic to the anarchist cause, an anarchist already and not know it, or already a full-fledged active anarchist ready to burn down or blow something up...cool!
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