{"id":1163,"date":"2019-08-21T10:32:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solidarity.international\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2022-07-30T17:17:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T15:17:47","slug":"nyc-abc-solidarity-with-international-anarchist-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solidarity.international\/index.php\/2019\/08\/21\/nyc-abc-solidarity-with-international-anarchist-political-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC ABC: Solidarity With International Anarchist Political Prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many imprisoned anarchists will never be acknowledged as \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/nycabc.wordpress.com\/guide\">political prisoners<\/a>\u2019\n by formal human-rights organizations, because their sense of social \njustice is strictly limited to the capitalist laws which are designed to\n defend the State and prevent any real social change. At the same time, \neven within our individual communities, we know so little about the \nrepression that exists in other countries. So it is with that that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/nycabc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NYC ABC<\/a>&nbsp;answers the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/solidarity.international\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">call<\/a>&nbsp;for a week of international solidarity with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/solidarity.international\/index.php\/list-of-prisoners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anarchist political prisoners<\/a>&nbsp;by writing to them as part of our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nycabc.wordpress.com\/category\/what-we-do\">every-other-week<\/a>&nbsp;political prisoner&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nycabc.wordpress.com\/write-a-letter\">letter-writing<\/a>&nbsp;dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here in the states, folks are being persecuted for possibly even \nassociating with anarchists or anti-fascists. Around the globe, the \nstate and capital collude in much the same way, and as a result rebels \nare imprisoned for acting on their desire for a free world. Please join \nus in sending cards to these imprisoned comrades. We\u2019ll see you at \nsupper!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and  your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan  meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the  letter-writing materials and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nycabc.wordpress.com\/write-a-letter\">prisoner-letter-writing info<\/a>&nbsp;you  could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a  thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your  choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We\u2019ll also  provide some brief&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nycabc.wordpress.com\/pppow-updates-announcements\">updates<\/a>&nbsp;and pass around birthday cards for the PP\/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nycabc.wordpress.com\/pppow-birthday-calendar\" target=\"_blank\">PP\/POW Birthday Calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-base\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/thebasebk.org\/event\/nyc-abc-solidarity-with-international-anarchist-political-prisoners-2\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many imprisoned anarchists will never be acknowledged as \u2018political prisoners\u2019 by formal human-rights organizations, because their sense of social justice is strictly limited to the capitalist laws which are designed to defend the State and prevent any real social change. At the same time, even within our individual communities, we know so little about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,3,336],"tags":[160,284],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-338","category-general","category-usa-2019","tag-letter-writing","tag-usa-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidarity.international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidarity.international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidarity.international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidarity.international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidarity.international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/solidarity.international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/solidarity.international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidarity.international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidarity.international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidarity.international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}