The Latest from Black Rose/Rosa Negra
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Don’t Panic, Organize: Meeting the Moment of Trump’s Second Term
Donald Trump has once again ascended to the Presidency. Below we lay out our recommendations for how to respond. Included at the bottom of this text are a collection of articles, audio pieces, and other resources that provide what we are calling “on-ramps” to organizing. by Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s External Education Committee (EEC) 1. No…
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The Ballot Box and Popular Power: Charting a Better Way Forward
This article by Black Rose / Rosa Negra members Frank Ascaso and Patrick Berkman takes stock of the present conjuncture around the 2024 presidential election. The “choice” before us, is no choice at all: between a program of unadorned reaction and that of friendly faced genocide. But despair and retreat aren’t adequate in the case…
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Anarchists in the Labor Movement #4 – Public Libraries
This is the fourth installment in our Anarchists in the Labor Movement series. Click through the links to read installment #1 with an education worker, #2 with healthcare workers, and #4 with a metal worker. In this interview we speak to Alex, a public library worker in North Carolina. As the title suggests, this series…
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Report on Labor Notes 2024
This somewhat belated report captures Black Rose/Rosa Negra Labor Committee’s participation in the 2024 edition of the Labor Notes Conference. Prepared by the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Labor Committee. Background on Labor Notes The 2024 Labor Notes Conference was held from April 19th to 21st in Chicago, bringing together some 4,700 unionists from around the United…
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Grants Pass and the Carceral Conjuncture
In the last several years, the total rate of those lacking safe, clean, and stable shelter in the United States has increased by double-digit percentages year-over-year. This ‘crisis’, as it is often called, is an increasingly extreme manifestation of the degradations built-in to the structures of a capitalist housing market maintained and protected by the…
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Black Rose/Rosa Negra 10th National Convention Report
Introduction Every year, Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra (BRRN) holds a national Convention in a different city somewhere in the United States. Delegates from Black Rose Locals gather to debate and deliver the votes of members on proposals that would substantively change the structures or direction of the organization; collectively reflect…
