Widespread Decentralized Gatherings and Resistance continue after Trump Took Office

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Crimethinc calling All Anarchists

Along with others we invite you to join in the festivals of resistance continuing after Donald Trump took office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, and resistance to militarized racist expulsions…

For an incomplete list of events, start here.

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Order mass deportations, escalate the repression of protesters, dismantle the few judicial and legislative provisions that still protect ordinary people, and consolidate a propaganda ecosystem intended to stupefy us all into obedience. While authoritarian leftist groups are simply treating this as a recruitment opportunity.

But from Texas to the West Bank, millions of people’s lives are getting even harder. We owe it to each other to meet the second Trump era side by side in solidarity.

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The chaos that will accompany the return of the Trump administration represents an opportunity as well as a challenge. This is a chance to assert an autonomous pole of organizing, carrying forward the lessons of 2020 and the movement against Cop City while continuing the fight against patriarchal violence, white supremacy, and colonialism.

We need to welcome new participants into these struggles and foster a revolutionary perspective that can orient us through the challenges ahead. No amount of internet activity could substitute for gathering face to face. The most important battles ahead will not be fought online, but in the streets of our communities.

January 18 was observed as the Day of the Forest Defender on the two-year anniversary of the murder of Tortuguita in Weelaunee Forest.

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A host of workshops were organised across the US, distributing literature teaching security culture, digital security, protest safety and first aid, direct action, reproductive autonomy, forms of organization including affinity groups, and other skills that may be relevant in the years to come.

The decentralized Festival of Resistance aims to strategize about how to confront the Trump agenda in your region, a chance to expand rapid response networks for community defense and mutual aid.

It’s up to local communities to decide what best fits local context. The important thing is to create a space and get connected ahead of the next round of struggles—a space where people can hone their skills and begin to think of themselves as a collective force.

No matter who Trump’s administration targets—whether immigrants, Palestine solidarity organizers, sex workers, schoolteachers, trans people, environmentalists, or people seeking abortions—we must show that we will love and protect one another.

If we all pull together, showing everyone who wants to resist that there are movements that they can join, we can begin to build the strength that we will need to overcome the challenges ahead.

Events like this are being held in dozens of cities and towns. Lets get started now.

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Events Listings

These are some of the events organized in relation to am earlier call.

January 11

• Chicago, Illinois: A training about fighting deportations, as part of the week-long “Regroup and Strategize” series.
• Sacramento, California: “Call to Action” conference and gathering, featuring a “day of skillshares and trainings” along with workshops, panels, and a keynote presentation from anarchist author Dean Spade. You can find more information and a full schedule here.

January 18

• Atlanta, Georgia: A mass mobilization and day of resistance on the two-year anniversary of the murder of Tortuguita.
• Austin, Texas: Day of the Forest Defender, 5 pm
• Brooklyn, New York: A community gathering including workshops.
• Carbondale, Ilinois: In fact, three days of events, January 17-19, as described on this flier:
• Cleveland, Ohio: 3 pm Coventry Peace Park, 5 pm Rhizome House
• Corvallis, Oregon: Liberation Assembly, 11 am to 2 pm, West M, 101 NW 23rd Street
• Dayton, Ohio: 5 pm, Union Hall, 313 South Jefferson; a community discussion followed by music
• Durham, North Carolina: The Triangle Festival of Resistance, a weekend-long festival focused on community defense, resilience, and liberation. For updates and information about how to contribute, consult Triangle Radical Events.
• Gary, Indiana: A demonstration against mass deportations.
• Humboldt, California: In fact, a full week of events; the list is here
• Medford, Oregon: 40 South Central Avenue, starting at 10 am on Saturday (and continuing at 11 am on Sunday)
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 6 pm at Nice Hair, with workshops on trans defense, migrant defense, self-defense, and movement defense
• Minneapolis, Minnesota: A screening of Fell in Love with Fire with letter writing to prisoners and a discussion about the next phase of struggle at the Seward Cafê at 6:30 pm.
• Montpelier, Vermont: In fact, a full weekend of events, described at the link.
• Oakland, California: A march to a community assembly, departing from Wilma Chan park next to the Lake Merritt BART at 1 pm.
• Olympia, Washington: The People’s March, 12 pm, departing from Heritage Park; followed by the Festival of Resistance.
• Phoenix, Arizona: 3-8 pm, Margaret T. Hance Park, featuring a Really Really Free Market, food, literature tables, and a number of educational workshops
• Portland, Oregon: A gathering in a COVID-safer, sober space. Families with and without children are welcome to attend. Food will be provided. You can read the schedule for a full day of events in Portland here. You can also find updates about event organizing in Portland here.
• Providence, Rhode Island: 3 pm – 9+ pm, AS220
• Richmond, Virginia: A community assembly involving panel discussions, workshops, and food, followed by a benefit concert.
• Throop, Pennsylvania: Community organizing fair with food and music, 2-7 pm
• Tucson, Arizona: Day of the Forest Defender, Parade of Resistance, Catalina Park, 4:30 pm
• Urbana, Illinois: A day of workshops, 10:30 am to 8 pm
• Vallejo, California: Day of the Forest Defender, Vallejo Waterfront, 2 pm

Events are also being organized in Salt Lake City, Utah and elsewhere.

January 19

• Asheville, North Carolina: “Rad Fair,” 1 to 3 pm; resistance to mass deportations with author Jessica Pishko and CIMA at 4 pm; a screening of “Fell in Love with Fire,” a documentary about Chile’s 2019 popular uprising, at 6:30 pm.
• Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The second day of the Triangle Festival of Resistance.
• New York City, New York: Empires starve, people feed—mutual aid teach-in and collection drive at Herbert Von King Park in Brooklyn at 1 pm

January 20

• Corvallis, Oregon: Festival of Resistance, 11 am to 5 pm, Westminster House 101 NW 23rd
• Indianapolis, Indiana: A Mutual Aid Convergence at Ujamaa Community Bookstore.

January 21

• Arcata, California: A march departing from Arcata Plaza at noon—against Donald Trump, in solidarity with Palestine, and in memory of Tortuguita.

January 25

• Rio Grande Valley, Texas: Organizing fair in Ramiro Guerro Park, McAllen, Texas, 1-4 pm
• Tampa Bay, Florida: A community gathering and organizing fair for “politics beyond the ballot box.” “Organize with your community to fight for transformative change! Connect with a local project from anti-capitalist orgs, labor and tenant unions, mutual aid orgs, and more!”
• Wichita, Kansas: A community organizing assembly at Safe Streets Wichita, 3-5 pm

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