This week, we’re featuring an anonymized chat with a longtime anarchist on lessons learned trying to be free while being targeted by state repression. We talk about experiencing trauma, the need for strong relationships and movements offering shelter and strong alternatives to the alienated society of state and capital, while also speaking on the challenges of mental health and inviting in new participants in anarchist movement.
You can find the zine of the full interview (including curses) on our blog post alongside the full hour and forty minutes of conversation plus Sean Swain segment.
Descending References and Resources List According to Interview:
Green Scare Background
- Green Scare Intro and Article References
- Mainstream Media Story (MSM Story): The Green Scare: How a Movement That Never Killed Anyone Became the FBI’s No. 1 Domestic Terrorism Threat
- TFSR Interviews:
Grand Juries
- CLDC: Grand Juries
- Surviving a Grand Jury: Three Narratives from Grand Jury Resisters
- People’s Law Office: The Improper Use of the Federal Grand Jury: An Instrument for the Internment of Political Activists
- Surviving a Grand Jury What it means to resist a grand jury; stories from those who have; how to support North Carolina grand jury resistance (PodCast)
Border Detention
Police Visitation
- Center for Constitutional Rights: If An Agent Knocks Resource
- When the Police Knock on Your Door Your Rights and Options: A Legal Guide and Poster
- If the FBI Approaches You to Become an Informant An FAQ: What You Need to Know
- National Lawyers Guild: If An Agent Knocks
On Phone and Digital Security Culture
- Taking Ourselves Seriously: Digital Harm Reduction (PDF Format)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation: Mainstream Resource and Non-Profit Advocate for Digital Privacy
Infiltration Cases:
- MSM Story on Mark Kennedy: How a Married Undercover Cop Having Sex With Activists Killed a Climate Movement
- TFSR interview on Spy Cops
- MSM Story on Eric McDavid case: Manufacturing Terror: An FBI Informant Seduced Eric McDavid Into a Bomb Plot. Then the Government Lied About It
- Earth First!: Informants List
Anti-Repression Resources:
- NYC Anarchist Black Cross
- Support Defendants & Prisoners From the George Floyd Uprisings
- TFSR interview: Anti-Repression, Supporting Uprising and Anarchist Prisoners
- A Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant (PDF Zine)
J20 Case
Sobriety Discussion
Mental Health/Trauma/Burn Out
- Survivors Manual: Surviving In Solitary (PDF)
- Sub.Media video: Redefining Sanity Through Struggle
- Conflictual Wisdom: On Burning Out and Anarchist Self-Preservation
- Against the Struggle of the Coward: A Note of Strength for the Underdogs
- Repression, Resiliency, & Movement Support: An Interview
- Solidarity Apothecary (Podcast)
- Broader Wellness Resources by Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
- Trauma & Recovery Brochure (PDF)
- Solidarity Is Greater Than Fear: Lessons from G20 to Stop Cop City (Youtube Link)
- A Life Worth Living: Care, Survival, Suicide, and Grief (Zine Resource on the Subjects)
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Featured Track:
- Hang On To Each Other by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band from Horses In The Sky