Call for an Anti-Authoritarian Bloc in Mobilization Against ‘Blue Lives Matter’ March

from It’s Going Down A call for an anti-authoritarian bloc at an upcoming mass mobilization against a ‘Blue Live Matter’ march in Philadelphia, PA. This Saturday, August 25th, fascists and authoritarians are hosting a Blue Lives Matter March in Philadelphia featuring local and state Republican candidates, including Scott Wagner, and various former law enforcement agents. …

Stop Hate Crimes at Unite the Right

When the Unite The Right rally gathered Last August in Charlottesville, they brought a reign of violence and terror with them. Hundreds of fascists openly declared their nazi convictions, mobs brutally beat people of color in the streets, and one nazi even murdered anti-racist organizer Heather Heyer. In a Democracy Now! interview following last year's …

Philly makes racists afraid again!

"As the oppressed, fighting to be human, take away the oppressors power to dominate and suppress, they restore to the oppressors the humanity they had lost in the exercise of oppression." —Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed A noise demo from #OccupyICEPHL heard that Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Points USA, was in town getting …

A12 Friendly Fire Travel Fund: Help us get to DC!

A crew from Friendly Fire, as well as other comrades, are making a trip down to D.C. for August 12th, where there will be Unite the Right 2. We are connecting to local faith organizers, hoping to provide a Christian anti-fascist witness. We need some help funding our trip, with the cost of travel, lodging, …

Philadelphia People of Faith, You Can Be a Witness Now

"Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." The current #OccupyICEPHL encampment was founded after the City Hall occupation was evicted by Mayor Kenney. This eviction notice came immediately following Kenney's announcement that the city would not renew the PARS …

This Movement is Not Ours, it’s Everybody’s! A message to “the activists” about Occupy ICE Philadelphia

This text belongs to a new zine that speaks to the current#OccupyICEPHL movement. This was not written by a Friendly Fire member. Something incredible is happening at OccupyICE Philadelphia right now. The encampment, which is in its third week at city hall, is developing in a truly revolutionary direction. Yesterday a crew of unhoused folks …

Nat Turner Day

From our comrades with RAM (Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement): The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement announces the First Annual Nat Turner Day! To commemorate the first day of the prison strike, RAM announces the first Nat Turner Day this August 21st, 2018. It is no coincidence this is the first day of this year’s Nationwide Prison Strike and …

For The People: Lindenwold

From our comrades in South Jersey: Capitalism shackles us to a boss, making us dependent on money for every need. It divides us into individuals competing for survival. We end up working long hours for little pay because we see no other way. To break the chains, we must learn to produce the things we …

#ShutItDownDC: Resist + Confront Fascism August 10th – 12th, Washington, DC

Taken from shutitdowndc.org: CW: Right-wing violence   Mass Mobilization Against The Alt-Right in Washington DC, August 10-12 We are calling all anti-fascists and people of good conscience to participate in international days of action August 10 through August 12 and a mass mobilization in Washington DC. This is for Heather Heyer, ICE abolition, open borders, …

Set fire to Empire

To follow Jesus is to build a new world from the ashes of the old. Sometimes, for the sake of justice, we’re called to start the fires that create those ashes. Last February, Catholic Workers Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya set fire to heavy machinery being used to construct the Dakota Access Pipeline. They were …