Tag: Statement
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Disorganization is Their Weapon, Solidarity is Our Shield: Committing to Principled Collective Defense
We live in a perilous moment, one when the specter of a new Red Scare looms closer by the day. But we cannot allow state repression, whether threatened or realized, to achieve its intended aim of demobilizing or disorganizing our social movements and political organizations. To counter these attacks our only option is to build…
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International Statement: War Between States Means Death for the People
The following is a statement written and endorsed by members of the Latin American Anarchist Coordination (CALA) and sibling organizations across the Americas, including Black Rose/Rosa Negra. Violence in the Middle East continues to grow exponentially. The war profiteers, the main partners of neoliberal capitalism, impose death on those below, while they become richer with…
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To Kick ICE Out Requires Action, To Keep Them Out Requires Organization
This past weekend in Los Angeles provocative ICE raids sparked fierce protest as community members turned out to disrupt the kidnapping and terrorizing of their neighbors and loved ones. As the situation in LA appears to be deepening with Trump’s mobilization of the National Guard and protests expanding to other cities, our California Bay Area…
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International Workers’ Day 2025
This statement was prepared by the External Education Committee of Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation. Illustration by Dinelli. Around the world, millions of people will be taking to the streets today in honor of May Day, International Workers’ Day. In the U.S., mass mobilizations from coast to coast, border to border are stringing together various…
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Updated Statement: Stop the Genocide in Gaza! End the War on Palestine!
Soon after October 7th, 2023 the Black Rose/Rosa Negra International Relations Committee (IRC) convened a special meeting to draft a statement condemning what was already becoming a genocidal assault on Gaza and the Palestinian people by the occupation forces of the Israeli state. Given the urgency of the moment and the swelling Palestine solidarity movement…
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May Day 2024: Remembrance Through Action
May 1st is International Workers Day, a historic day of struggle born of the blood of revolutionary anarchist martyrs of the Haymarket Affair, who gave their lives as part of a mass movement in the US against the rapacious exploitation wrought by the capitalist system and the violence of the state that preserves and protects…
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Statement: Not One More Tyre Nichols
The following statement is endorsed by the membership of Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra. On January 10, 2023, Tyre Nichols died from severe physical injuries, including a broken neck, sustained three days earlier at the hands, batons, pepper spray, and tasers of five Memphis, Tennessee police officers. As one of the…
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Rights Are Made in the Streets, Not the Courts: BRRN Statement on Leaked Supreme Court Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade
The following is a statement and analysis written and endorsed by Locals and at large members of the Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation. Introduction We must fight for access to safe, legal, free, and universally available abortion. The people of the United States are in the midst of a critical moment. On May…
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Brunch is Canceled: Biden, Trump, and the Case for Revolution
Statement by Black Rose / Rosa Negra The 2020 presidential election has come and gone. While Donald Trump’s refusal to concede marks a departure from the established norms of U.S. bourgeois democracy, it has not amounted to the coup that many feared it would. Despite the authoritarian rhetoric that brought him to power, Trump never…