[Reader-list] Police raid Williamsburg anarchist media collective

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta]

A report that appeared in Nettime, that might be of interest to  
readers on this list

>
> http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/04/14/police-raid- 
> anarchist-media-collective-3-days-before-nyc-film-festival/
>
> Police raid anarchist media collective 3 days before NYC film festival
>
> The Fourth Annual Anarchist Film Festival in being held on Friday  
> April
> 16th, 2010 in New York City. This year?s festival is being held to  
> honor
> the life and work of Brad Will, a film-maker and movement activist
> allegedly assassinated by the Mexican government in Oaxaca on  
> October 27th,
> 2006, as he was filming a popular uprising.
>
> On April 13th, according to a statement put out by members of the
> Independent Anarchist Media (I AM) Collective:
>
> ?in Brooklyn NY, the NYPD entered without a warrant 13 Thames Art  
> Space, a
> Bushwick based art and performance space where members of the  
> Independent
> Anarchist Media (I AM) Collective have been organizing the Fourth  
> Annual
> NYC Anarchist Film Festival in honor of Brad Will.
>
> Two plainclothes detectives entered first, followed quickly by a  
> Lieutenant
> and vans full of blue shirt officers. After corralling everyone  
> present in
> the back room, they searched the space and detained two members of the
> collective.
>
> The I AM collective was preparing for the NYC Anarchist Film  
> Festival, a
> showcase of resistance movements and insurrectionary events from  
> around the
> world presented from an anarchist and anti-authoritarian perspective.
>
> Our response to the raid: regardless of these attacks, the film  
> festival
> will happen as planned on Friday April 16, 2010 at Judson Memorial  
> Church.
> The voice of decentralized creative communities will not be  
> silenced by
> police repression. They cannot raid us, because we are everywhere.
>
> Video of the police raid was posted on the Internet. Federal agents  
> were
> also reported to be present at the raid.
>
>
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Shuddhabrata Sengupta
The Sarai Programme at CSDS
Raqs Media Collective
shuddha at sarai.net
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