16th Anarchist Bookfair - Anarchists & Police / Radical Communications Panels: photo & audio

From the bookfair website, plus additional resources:

Evolving Anarchist Strategies in Struggles Against the Police: Athens, Oakland, Seattle SAT April 9, 4:00 pm

Featuring speakers from – Occupied London (Athens, GR) – Oakland 100 Support Committee (Oakland, CA) – Comrades from Seattle, WA  – Moderated by Tim Simons

In the past two years, anti-police rebellions have erupted in multiple cities up and down the west coast in response to police killings. Many anarchists who have participated in these US struggles have drawn inspiration from the massive December 2008 insurrection in Greece following a similar police killing in the neighborhood of Exarcheia. How have strategies and tactics for confronting police terrorism spread between comrades in disparate locations and how have these modes of resistance been modified to fit specific local contexts? How are movements aimed specifically against the police connected with broader social struggles and what are the limits of focusing solely on police violence? What roles have anarchists played in these movements and what have been the major contradictions and conflicts within the mobilizations? This panel will explore perspectives from anarchist comrades organizing in Athens, Oakland and Seattle who have all experienced the successes and failures in recent years of these diverse yet parallel movements.

More Info:
http://www.revoltcrisis.org - Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Come
http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog - From the Greek Streets
http://www.occupiedlondon.org - Occupied London Journal
(http://www.indybay.org/oscargrant)

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Can’t Stop the Signal: The Present and Future of Communications for Radical Action, SUN, April 10, 1:00 pm

Presented by March Hare, your friendly neighborhood anarchist communications collective:  Over the past year we have seen radicals leverage the power of digital and wireless communications to create effective and innovative resistances. Various forms of digital front-line rebellion, ranging from using social networks to mobilize and communicate in regimes where information is strictly controlled to creating down-loadable tools anyone can use to strike at huge multinationals, are being deployed and developed constantly. The question is not whether those seeking new ways to confront the State and Capital will use these mediums but what we, as anarchists, can do to make our comms smarter, better and easier to use in the streets. We at March Hare are working on developing and improving digital and wireless communications for more successful, effective and secure actions. This presentation will look at some recent examples of using communication technologies to organize and support actions in the streets and explain the projects we are working on currently.

Operator Distribution

The Operator Distribution is intended to be a portable computer operating environment that can be preconfigured ahead of time and given to communications operators. The intention of this project is to make a secure and trusted environment for operators to perform their work from as well as develop a platform to deploy other customized utilities like point and click secure conference call solutions.

More Info:
http://www.march-hare.org - March Hare Communications Collective
http://www.march-hare.org/project/OD - Operator Distribution
http://www.hackbloc.org - HackBloc

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Event Announcements: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/28/18673353.php and http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/28/18673354.php