The Latest from Black Rose/Rosa Negra
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Eastern Iowa Solidarity Statement for Meagan Taylor
On Monday, July 13, 2015, Meagan Taylor and a friend checked into a room at the Drury Inn, in West Des Moines, IA. Upon checking in, Taylor noticed staff acting “really funny” around her and her friend. Shortly thereafter, staff at the Drury Inn called the West Des Moines police, reporting “two males dressed as…
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OUR SADNESS WILL BE OUR ANGER, KOBANÊ WILL REBUILD
#Rojava #Kobane #SurucBomb #SuruçtaKatliamVar We re-post this statement by comrades in Revolutionary Anarchist Action in Turkey on the recent bombing, likely by supporters of ISIS, that maimed and killed dozens of mostly young activists organizing to support the revolutionary efforts underway in Rojava. It has been heavily edited for clarity and issues of translation. Yesterday nearly three hundred…
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Statement on the Recent Massacre in Suruc, Turkey
BLACK ROSE ANARCHIST FEDERATION / FEDERACION ANARQUISTA ROSA NEGRA (USA) July 20, 2015 #Rojava #SurucBomb #SuruçtaKatliamVar English Türkçe العربية Español Italiano Português ελληνικά Statement on the Recent Massacre in Suruc, Turkey Today we mourn the loss of friends and comrades and renewing our commitment to an international revolutionary struggle in their memory. At noon,…
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AFROCOLOMBIANS IN COLOMBIAN PACIFIC FACE A GRAVE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
The Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento (CODHES) expresses its profound distress due to the ongoing humanitarian crisis affecting the Colombian civilian population and especially the Afro Colombian and indigenous populations in the Colombian Pacific region. This region traditionally impacted by a dynamics of structural exclusion has been the most affected by the…
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When You Come For Our Neighbors, You Come For Us All
By Alex C On Wednesday, June 17th I awoke to a voicemail from a member of Take Back the Land, a community organization that uses advocacy and direct action tactics to help homeowners defend their homes from unjust eviction. They’d been holding an eviction watch at a home on Webster Avenue for about a…
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Setting Fire to the Noose: The Baltimore Rebellion & the More to Come
By Romina Akemi LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Version en español The early morning of May 1st Marilyn Mosby, the State’s Attorney for the city of Baltimore in Maryland, announced criminal charges against the six cops involved in the murder of Freddie Gray. The charges include second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. The bittersweet victory illustrated the impact…
