The workshop schedule for the Fall Anarchist Careshare is here! Community agreements, general space & covid accessibility guidelines and more information about the weekend is on anarchistskillshare.noblogs.org. Disclaimer: we are just an account re-posting this! For questions and comments, reach out to chicago_anarchist_skillshare@riseup.net.
Join us in person* or virtually
Tuesday October 29 6:30-8:30 PM
at Firefly Fiber Arts Studio 2860 N Milwaukee Ave
or on Zoom registration link bit.ly/octoberletterwriting
* Masks required KN95 or similar
Free Casey Goonan! Abolition now! No more prisoners!
Casey is a dedicated community educator, writer, distroist, and printer who has committed their life to struggles for liberation. A federal investigation by the FBI and several other law enforcement agencies resulted in Casey’s arrest for alleged politically motivated “crimes”.
Since June 17, 2024, they have been incarcerated at Santa Rita Jail in California facing federal felonies that could result in up to 20 years of imprisonment, freeing Casey will likely be a long fight. Just as Casey has persistently for years cared for, supported, and struggled alongside incarcerated comrades, we aim to replicate these actions in solidarity with Casey as they continue their struggle from the other side of the wall.
Casey is the only political prisoner from the college encampments for Palestine. Their case will set a precedent on how direct action and protests are targeted by the state around Palestine solidarity moving forward.
Their next court hearing is November 5th and rapidly approaching – we are hoping to write letters of support to Casey ahead of their next court appearance.
Firefly Fiber Arts Studio (2860 N Milwaukee Ave) is located on the first floor; there is a 2″ threshold into the space and no stairs inside. There are wide ADA standard walkways and an accessible one-person restroom with a wide doorway and support rails. There is a variety of seating that can accommodate up to 25 people. High quality KN95 masks or similar are required for this event. Air purifiers will be provided for this event.
R4ffle to support Casey. Thousands of $$$ urgently needed for legal fees. $5 tickets, tattoos, artwork, jewelry, literature. @FreeCaseyNow for more details.
We are sad to announce that, although Hybachi LeMar was scheduled to be released on parole from IDOC Jacksonville Correctional Center on October 4, 2024, he was instead picked up by Pennsylvania authorities on a warrant for an alleged parole violation. He was transported overnight from Illinois to Pennsylvania and is now incarcerated at SCI Smithfield.
Update Message from Hybachi LeMar:
Solidarity Greetings.
The following are the events surrounding my October 2024 transfer from Jacksonville, Illinois.
On October 4th, I was exported by U.S. Security Transportation Services van from Jacksonville Correctional Center, first to Connersville, Indiana, where I slept in a hallway of its county jail overnight, en route to Pennsylvania. I arrived the next evening at SCI Smithfield.
And while the other two passengers who were picked up from different parts of the country were given their customary browns, clothing exchange, I was put in a cell in order to place all the clothes I had on into a box. No socks. No shirt. No underwear.
I was handed a smock—a thick, blue, velcro, padded observation garment with no sleeves, too hot to wear, ostensibly under the pretext that the nerve medication prescribed at the previous institution had to be taken and re-prescribed. And with me having to be monitored in such a way in case I would undergo any detox symptoms.
Doing jumping jacks; recalling knowledge I memorized from an almanac that Midwest Books to Prisoners mailed me in Cook County Jail; and planning what to do to assist uplifting communities once I’m released, were resourceful in centering my mind and keeping it balanced on a solid foundation of constructive thoughts, the two days I spent in that particular cell.
Due to my history of clairvoyance and clairaudience, which has been misnomered as schizophrenia, I was moved upstairs on the psychiatric wing for “closer observation” to see how I do.
In spite of it all, I remain cool and collected, and hope you are too.
Before closing this message, it’s important to always remember, whether you find yourself alone in your room, or naked inside of a cell: as we drift 67,000 miles per hour around the sun, no one can take away the fact that you can center your mind on a thought along the way.
The thought you choose is yours to make, yours to keep, one to be appreciated with genuine understanding. And it’s a gift, a primordial power that no one can take away.
Sending you solidarity, love, and strength.
Sincerely Yours,
Hybachi LeMar
You can continue to write Hybachi using this form or by sending a single sided letter to this forwarding address:
Hybachi LeMar
c/o Midwest Books to Prisoners
1321 N Milwaukee Avenue PMB 460
Chicago, IL 60622
Wolf = Humility
Indigenous Day of Rage
“We will need each other to make sure that the flames, if they were to come, clear the area that we will live in together. We will need to clear it of the fuel that would end up repeating the problems we are currently having. We will need to make sure that the seeds, nutrients and soil are scattered beyond our ability to control.” Aragorn
For the end of the struggle that is settler colonialism everywhere. Where the land is stolen, consent violated, the old ways forgotten – let it burn.
We hope that every colonizer who robs the lives and dignity of the land and the people on it understands that their great-grandchildren, and their great-grandchildren’s children are not going to be here because of their violence and indeterminent destruction.
We will still be here fighting for the next seven generations, but we will never forget the slaughter, and we will remember to make sure those grandchildren stay afraid of all that is wild.
The united states government now “recognizes” indigenous people’s day alongside columbus day. we must make this impossible to reconcile. We will remain illegible to them, and unknowable to all but each other and the stars above, the water below, and all that of the earth fighting back. We call out to the brave and the humble – all that is striving towards life, while defying management, capture, and domestication with a strength they could never know.
find the connections, funders, manufacturers, advisors, politicians, gentrifiers, and all enemies of the people and the earth. you know who they are.
find some friends and haunt those motherfuckers ghosts
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❤️🔥Let’s take care of each other so we can be dangerous together ❤️🔥
🍂Join us for a fall Chicago Anarchist CareShare, the weekend before the election on November 1-3!🍂
After over a year full of actions, disruptions and more, we are focusing on skillshares and group-faciliated sessions on care, in AND out of the streets.
What does it look like to care for ourselves and our people when we are not in the streets? What is care in times where people are reckoning with immense repression and dehumanization that comes with trying to confront the empire and all its entities?
While we don’t claim to have all the answers, we invite folks to engage in these questions with us.
Some skillshare workshops to look forward to are: care under stress, diaster relief and mutual aid work, long-term prisoner support, somatic exercises, operational and digital security culture, fighting toxic prisons, storytelling by the beehive collective, community and self defense, conflict resolution, storytelling around the bonfire and so much more!
📍Location and ⌚️Time Details:
11/1: Patchwork Farms (2825 W. Chicago Ave) from 6-10 PM
11/2-11/3: WestSide Justice Center (601 S. California Ave) from 12-9 pm
🔎Keep checking anarchistskillshare.noblogs.org for more information coming soon. That is where a detailed workshop schedule with workshop descriptions, accessibility, covid safety details and more will be posted!
!!! See you there !!!
For questions and comments, reach out to chicago_anarchist_skillshare@riseup.net
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