We’re thrilled to announce the formation of three new Locals of Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation (BRRN)! From the Texas Hill Country, to the Great Lakes, to the Northeast, our organization is growing deeper roots and expanding our capacity to organize, struggle, and build popular power in communities across the country.
As you will read below, each new local grows out of its members’ deep involvement in the popular struggles of their neighborhoods, workplaces, and broader communities. What follows are brief introductions in their members’ own words — including their contact info and social media handles.
Austin, TX
The Austin Local has officially re-formed! Our members are primarily focused on labor and tenant organizing, as well as rapid response to ICE. We are also making preparations for an open reading group to discuss BRRN’s Program.
We welcome those with interest to contact us.
Email: austin@blackrosefed.org
Instagram: @blackrose_atx
Chicago, IL
The Chicago local is back! Our logo honors the Haymarket Martyrs Memorial — a symbol of the organizers who made anarchism a powerful current in immigrant and women workers’ struggles of their time, as well as the place we gathered for our first event all together as a local.
We carry their memory with us alongside others as we work in the social movements where we are rooted. These include tenant struggles on the South and Northwest sides, as well as labor organizing in the Chicago Teachers Union. We look forward to deepening our connections with comrades in our movements and others through collective study and struggle.
Email: chicago@blackrosefed.org
Instagram: @blackrose_chicago
New York City, NY
Members of the New York City Local organize with tenants, neighbors, youth, coworkers, and parents to build Black, Brown, and working-class popular power throughout the city. Sites of social insertion include the Astoria Tenant Union in Queens, anticarceral youth and parent programs in Manhattan, immigrant defense coalitions in Brooklyn, the American Association of University Professors, and more. True to BRRN’s internationalist character, we also organize within the Palestinian and Sudanese solidarity movements.
From the Young Lords to Occupy Wall Street, we recognize the integral role that revolutionaries in NYC have played in past freedom struggles and look forward to reviving organized anarchism in the especifista tradition across the five boroughs. BRRN’s Program serves as a blueprint for renewed efforts to confront imperial and capitalist violence as anarchist militants living at the nexus of US empire and global capital .
Email: nyc@blackrosefed.org
Instagram: @blackrose_nyc
Are you organizing at your workplace, on your campus, or in your neighborhood? Looking for a political home in which you can strategize with others about how to build power, force concessions, and push our mass movements in a revolutionary direction?
Black Rose/Rosa Negra could be right for you.
Read our Join page and send us a membership inquiry!