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Prisoner Solidarity in Stride: annual 5 km run (or walk!)

Sept 19,25 Cldc.org / Anarchist Black Cross Federation via thefreeonline https://wp.me/pIJl9-Htx <telegram https://t.me/thefreeonline/4261 https://open.substack.com/pu

Running Down the Walls (RDTW) is an annual 5Km run/jog/walk in Nth America organized by the Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF). This powerful community-driven event promotes awareness about political prisoners and prisoners of war in the United States, and fundraises for their essential needs.

In 2025, RDTW is scheduled for September 21st. Confirmed participating cities include Eugene, Portland (OR), Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, and Miami.

RDTW is deeply rooted in solidarity: while community members take part outside, prisoners participate from within correctional facilities. Onlookers gather to cheer-on the self-described “non-competitive 5K run/jog/walk/roll.”

.. https://cldc.org/Activist Defense The CLDC represents activists that, in the course of fighting for a better world, are arrested and criminally charged. We believe their courage deserves the best possible defense that can incorporate the political, social, and philosophical motivations of these activists.

The first RDTW took place in 1999. Since then, it has blossomed into an established tradition occurring annually in multiple cities across the country. Funds raised through the event are directed to vital initiatives supporting incarcerated persons – primarily ABCF Warchest, a program founded in 1994 to aid political prisoners.

From September 21st will see the 26th annual Running Down the Walls events happening all over. So far, events have been confirmed in New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Eugene, OR, Chicago, IL, Bloomington, IL, Lowell, MA, Portland, OR, and Miami, FL. A Pushing Down the Walls event (burpee contest) will also be taking place on November 8th in Southern California.

Since 1999, prisoners and supporters throughout North America have participated in the annual event known as Running Down the Walls (RDTW) often running or walking simultaneously in many cities and prisons at once. Many places will be hosting the 26th annual RDTW on or around Sunday, September 21th, 2025 – stay tuned to our blog for more details from all of the locations participating this year!

This is a non-competitive 5K run/jog/walk/roll to raise awareness and funds for political prisoners. Over the years, we have raised thousands of dollars and lots of awareness around the struggle to free political prisoners.

List of Running Down the Walls 2025 events

Bloomington, Indiana
September 21st
Bryant Park Southside
1pm registration
Running Down the Walls is an annual event that happens in many cities across North America. It is an anti-competitive 5K (run, walk, roll, or just hang out) to raise money for political prisoners. In 2024, BABC had our second ever RDTW and it was a huge success! https://bloomingtonabc.noblogs.org/rdtw25/

Continue reading “Sept 21- sponsor Prisoner Support events in US-‘Running Down the Walls’”

On 18 Sept 25 thefreeonline https://wp.me/pIJl9-Ht5

on Telegam..https://t.me/thefreeonline/4248

Of course Antifa is not an organisation as such but an idea, or an inspiring morality based on direct action.

Because fascists don’t listen to reason. In fact historically they seek to abolish our access to reason by seizing dictatorial power under the guise of irrational rightwing public hysteria..

Trump’s style of populist bullying of minorities and non citizens constantly needs hate victims to rally support, just as Hitler got power abusing gays, foreigners and Jews. (-Only now the Jewish Regime is on the side of Trump).

By now the US police are highly militarized, linked into the arms economy and directed by a paranoic Deep State obsessed with controlling the population, as well as stealing dwindling resources and maintaining its privileges worldwide.

Antifascism for us is a moral human duty. They cannot really ban Antifa because it isnt a Party or Union. But they can jail, repress, deport or just kill us, along with trans kids, and rebellious blacks and women and…you.

They can select or invent a single crime by one of us, cover it 24/7, and watch their shares in the bought media grow.

They have cemented their grip on power by lighting up firestorms of hysterical hatred by labelling single actions by an ‘antifa’ a trans’ or any ‘woke’ as a hate crime. Even if its one in a million¡.

“It’s still worth noting: a man they touted as a champion of free speech was assassinated and their response is the suppression of free speech at levels we haven’t seen since the various red scares of the 20th century… ” Margaret Killjoy Sep 17 2025

But what the US zionist rulers also really want is to outlaw and demonise resistance to Israeli Genocide in Palestine.

Militarised victimisation and illegalisation of antifascists, immigrants, etc is an obvious step towards outlawing all criticism of Israel

Despite new laws supporting Israel and a blind eye to Israeli bribery and political blackmail. Despite countless billions of public money given in gifted armaments, the resistance to the mass slaughter of innocents and children still increases.

“Some have gone as far as to warn of the connection with Trump’s recent deployment of National Guard troops to US cities, under the aegis of fighting crime and abetting ICE in their harvest of illegals. They have tied the initiatives into a broader ‘Project Esther’-style commitment to “fight antisemitism” by shielding Israel from any possible criticisms in order to whitewash Israel’s now-indisputable crimes.

For those that don’t know, Project Esther—named after a figure in the Hebrew bible—comes by way of the Heritage Foundation and aims to “dismantle the Hamas network” in the US by labeling anyone criticizing Israel or supporting Palestine as potential ‘terrorists’ and being tied to Hamas.

Continue reading “Bait and switch- ‘Antifa’ ban another step to criminalize anti-genocide action-“

via thefreeonline. https://t.me/thefreeonline/4246  17 Sept 25

Bristol Anarchist Bookfair for 2025 will take place on Saturday, November 1st, at the Elmgrove Centre in Bristol, UK.

It is also known that details and flyers for the 2025 bookfair may be available at the Bristol Radical History Festival 2025.
To find out more, you can:
Check the Facebook page.

The Bristol Anarchist Bookfair has a Facebook page where they share updates and information about upcoming events.

Attend the Bristol Radical History Festival: Look for the bookfair flyer at the festival, which is happening on Saturday, November 1st at M Shed and Sunday, November 2nd at Cube Microplex.

+ Statement on the genocide against the Palestinian people |
From CNT-AIT Madrid

via thefreeonline.. https://t.me/thefreeonline/4233

“We declare the strongest support for the Palestinian people in the face of their genocide and the occupation of their territory….”
⬛️🟥 https://madrid.cntait.org/no-al-genocidio-pueblo-palestino/

The Israeli occupation has intensified its bombardment of Gaza City, attacking the Islamic University three times in succession, with the final attack using highly explosive bombs that left dozens of martyrs buried beneath the rubble.

“Israel’s” indiscriminate strikes extended to the Mhanna and Al-Taj Towers, entire residential blocks under so-called “evacuation orders”, and even five UNRWA schools.

In a further escalation, Israeli aircraft destroyed the historic Greek Orthodox School and its church, further highlighting the ethnic cleansing and genocidal nature of the Israeli occupation regime’s war on Gaza.

Watch: https://youtube.com/shorts/plnm3tr-2_g?feature=share
⬛️🟥

Opposing an ongoing genocide requires no explanation or justification.

They are the ones who are wrong. Make THEM defend their position.

Put THEM on the back foot. Interrogate THEIR agendas.

Cast suspicion on THEIR motives. Call THEM crazy and evil.

Accuse THEM of racism and religious bigotry.

Shout THEM down. Shut  up.

They’re the ones doing something freakish and nefarious, not you.

Extract from post by Caitlin Johnston

– Abel Paz
From Child to Activist

vía thefreeonline.- https://t.me/thefreeonline/4198

Buenaventura Durruti Domínguez, son of Santiago, a railroad worker, and Anastasia, was born on July 14, 1896, in León.

At the age of five, he attended primary school, and at nine, he attended secondary school on Misericordia Street, run by Professor Ricardo Fanjul.

The professor’s assessment of Durruti upon completing his studies was: “A gifted student, absent-minded, but with noble sentiments.”

At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed in a mechanical workshop, which he left at eighteen, having received a good education, which he demonstrated in his first job in Matallana de Torio, building mine wash houses.

He later joined the Northern Railway as an assembly mechanic.

This was in 1914, when the First World War broke out.
Manuel Buenacasa

Although León was a center of clerical and aristocratic domination, there was already a working-class core of the Spanish Socialist Party and the General Union of Workers.

Durruti belonged to the latter from the day he became a wage earner.

His rebellious nature, always willing to confront injustice, earned him a reputation among his colleagues and made him popular in the mining centers.

He participated in union meetings and spoke out in the workplace, where his militant and combative mentality was formed.

During this time, the revolutionary strike of August 1917 took place, which ended in León with the dismissal of workers and the repression of the leaders.

The León branch of the new trade union, the National Confederation of Labor the CNT, also participated in this strike.

Durruti was attracted by the fighting spirit of these men and joined this union, to which he would remain for the rest of his life.

Fired from the railway workshops and boycotted by the León employers, he had to go into exile and settle in Gijón, a center of revolutionary attraction in northern Spain and a hub of anarcho-syndicalist influence in the Asturian region.

There, he befriended Manuel Buenacasa, who introduced him to anarchist theories.

After spending two months in Gijón, he was forced to go into exile in France, unable to find work and having failed to register for military service, despite being 21 years old.
Exile and Revolutionary Action

In Paris, three men influenced him: Sébastien Faure, Louis Lecoin, and Émile Cottin. These men would forever remain linked to his life.

In Spain, his friends sent him news. The revolutionary spirit sweeping Europe prompted him to return to Spain in early 1920.

In San Sebastián, he met Manuel Buenacasa, general secretary of the city’s CNT construction union. A few days after his arrival, he began working as a mechanic, which allowed him to make friends with other militant workers in Barcelona, Madrid, and Zaragoza.

The foundations of an anarchist group had been laid in San Sebastián, and it was the group called “Los Justicieros” that Durruti first joined.

But the people of San Sebastián were people to whom “nothing ever happened,” and Durruti decided to move.

Buenacasa gave him a letter of recommendation for Ángel Pestaña, then general secretary of the CNT National Committee, who was in Barcelona.

Francisco Ascaso

He stopped off in Zaragoza, where the atmosphere was charged with workers’ struggles.

Cardinal Soldevila and the governor of Zaragoza had brought a group of professional assassins from Barcelona to murder Confederate militants and destroy the CNT in Zaragoza.

The reaction was violent, and a group of CNT militants, including Francisco Ascaso, were imprisoned in the Predicadores prison awaiting harsh sentences.

The workers of Zaragoza declared a general strike to demand the release of the prisoners.

Barcelona / Madrid: the “Los Solidarios” group

The event coincided with the arrival of Durruti and his friends in Zaragoza. The prisoners were released, while the struggle took on new proportions.

In this climate, Durruti, a close friend of Ascaso and Torres Escartin, decided to move to Barcelona in January 1922.

Barcelona, like Zaragoza at that time, was at the extreme end of the struggle.

Gangsters attacked labor leaders and murdered them in the streets. Faced with this attack supported by employers and the police, the unionists could only respond using the same methods.

Continue reading “One Life, One Thought: “Durruti, from Revolt to Revolution””

https://t.me/ExWorkers/3353.  https://anarchistbookfair.net/. via thefreeonline** https://t.me/thefreeonline/4167

We’ll be tabling Saturday at the New York City Anarchist Book Fair Come choose from an array of books, zines, posters, and stickers!

The hardcore band Catharsis, whose LP “Hope against Hope” we just released, will be performing in NYC the night before:

https://www.propertyistheft.org/events-1/nyc-anarchist-book-fair-rs792

      * Sept 12 (evening) music  festival    (at P.I.T. in Brooklyn)

        * September 13  – Anarchist Book Fair + …………………………

         * September 13  –  Anarcho-Art Festival  + Film Festival + in person workshops and more.

                                       (Bookfair at La Plaza Community Garden, East 9th Street and Ave C, New York, NY  10009)                                     

                                       (Film Festival at Tompkins Square Park, NYC)

        * September 14  –  virtual international workshops

Via thefreeonline  https://t.me/thefreeonline/4149.  11th Sept ’25

On Tuesday night, a flaming object fell on the Global Sumud Flotilla’s (GSF) “Alma” boat, docked in Tunisian waters and sailing under the British flag.

Video footage of the attack shows a large explosion, and the boat’s deck was set aflame.

The crew was able to quickly put out the fire, and nobody was hurt, the group said.

STOP THE SLAUGHTER. .

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