For May Day this year, your friends at the Forest City Anarchists have lined up some choice entertainment. We’re starting things off a bit early with a live internet panel at 7PM on April 30th titled “The Future of Resistance to the State and Capital: After the George Floyd Uprising”. Following the conclusion of 2020, a year which saw resistance break out in cities across the country, there is a wide scale political realignment occurring. As with the period following past uprisings, this realignment has necessitated a shift in approaches for radicals across the US. This panel will discuss the events of the past year, the lessons learned, and approaches that can be taken to move resistance forward into 2021 and beyond. The panel will stream live via twitch here https://www.twitch.tv/fcanarchists. The speakers are as follows:
- Klee Benally is a Diné musician, writer, traditional dancer, artist, filmmaker, & Indigenous anarchist. Klee organizes with Indigenous Action, Táala Hooghan Infoshop, Protect the Peaks, Haul No!, Kinłani Mutual Aid and IndigenousMutualAid.org.
- Sam Pree-Gonzalez is coming to us from Minneapolis. Her political work centers around economic justice, cooperative economics, housing justice and local community autonomy.
- Sima Lee is a musician and revolutionary from the Baltimore/DC area who has been a lifelong organizer. Her work focuses on the concept of maroon communities, anarchism and the intersections of these concepts with work around mutual aid and community structures of self-defense.
- Frank Andrews is a participant in the It’s Going Down media collective. IGD is a platform for autonomous anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, and antifascist movements across so-called North America.
For the main event, we’re calling for a gathering on May 1st, May Day, at Lincoln Park on W. 14th in Tremont, a park with historical significance to the anarchist scene in Cleveland. This park was used for anarchist and communist rallies in the early 20th century. It was the site of a massive unemployed workers riot during the depression. Following the war, it became a place for mutual aid organizations that worked with people in poverty to gather and provide services. In the 1960s and 70s, it became a hippie hang out, and, finally, became a punk and anarchist hangout and the birthing ground for the resistance campaigns to end gentrification in the early and mid 2000s.
The May Day gathering is set to begin at 2PM and end at 5PM. So get your masks on and come out for a taste of that sweet sweet anarchism. Remember last May? That shit was cool. Wait, are you a cop? If you’re a cop you have to tell me. I heard that on the internet once, so it must be true.
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