We're launching a new initiative! The Anti-Repression Talks: a series of sessions to encourage discussion of surveillance and security issues within and between informal anarchist networks, on an international level.

Each session will focus on a topic and last three months. During a session, we encourage participants to form local study groups to discuss the session topic; we provide resources and discussion points. At the end of a session, we host an online chat where all participants can anonymously gather and talk.

The first session starts in October, and its topic is: Preparing for Physical Surveillance.

Pictured: an excerpt from the session announcement, presenting the session topic.

More information here:
https://notrace.how/blog/preparing-for-physical-surveillance/preparing-for-physical-surveillance.html
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Community members took to the streets of #Nashville, #Tennessee yesterday to denounce white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups rallying in their city. The march was organized by a local church and council members.

Many applauded calls by the local Mayor however to pass ordinances aimed at curtailing protest and speech, laws that will be used to target and attack anti-racist and anti-capitalist movements more than the far-Right.

The new ordinances aim to target the wearing of masks, create "buffer zones to maintain public safety around public buildings and parking lots," prevent the hanging of banners from freeways, and an ordinance "prohibiting the distribution of handbills on private property before sunrise or after sunset."

As we've seen time and time again, the police will use these laws as an opportunity to target the Left, while continuing to give the far-Right free-reign.

Most recently in Nashville, when one neo-Nazi group hurled racist slurs at a group of Black youth playing drums in a public space., police separated the youths when they began to yell back at the neo-Nazis, chastising them for responding.

Community defense and mobilizing against threats of racist terror with solidarity and direct action will push the fascists from the streets - not giving the police more power to harass and attack us.

The thing you need to understand about Millenials and younger folks is there has never been an American politician with realistic or even appealing ideas for our entire adult lives. But everyone older than us has been telling us we're "unrealistic" for expecting actual solutions rather than more procedural delays in the face of climate collapse.

The "unrealistic option" is and always has been to keep doing the same shit and expecting the world to not continue falling apart.