Tag: Statement
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Updated Statement: Stop the Genocide in Gaza! End the War on Palestine!
Soon after October 7th, 2023 the Black Rose/Rosa Negra International Relations Committee (IRC) convened a special meeting to draft a statement condemning what was already becoming a genocidal assault on Gaza and the Palestinian people by the occupation forces of the Israeli state. Given the urgency of the moment and the swelling Palestine solidarity movement…
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May Day 2024: Remembrance Through Action
May 1st is International Workers Day, a historic day of struggle born of the blood of revolutionary anarchist martyrs of the Haymarket Affair, who gave their lives as part of a mass movement in the US against the rapacious exploitation wrought by the capitalist system and the violence of the state that preserves and protects…
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Statement: Not One More Tyre Nichols
The following statement is endorsed by the membership of Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra. On January 10, 2023, Tyre Nichols died from severe physical injuries, including a broken neck, sustained three days earlier at the hands, batons, pepper spray, and tasers of five Memphis, Tennessee police officers. As one of the…
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Rights Are Made in the Streets, Not the Courts: BRRN Statement on Leaked Supreme Court Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade
The following is a statement and analysis written and endorsed by Locals and at large members of the Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation. Introduction We must fight for access to safe, legal, free, and universally available abortion. The people of the United States are in the midst of a critical moment. On May…
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Brunch is Canceled: Biden, Trump, and the Case for Revolution
Statement by Black Rose / Rosa Negra The 2020 presidential election has come and gone. While Donald Trump’s refusal to concede marks a departure from the established norms of U.S. bourgeois democracy, it has not amounted to the coup that many feared it would. Despite the authoritarian rhetoric that brought him to power, Trump never…
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Statement: The Necessity of Abolishing the Police and Capitalism
In a time of political upheaval, pandemic, and protest our comrades in New York City have produced this statement. Download a PDF version of this statement. By Black Rose/Rosa Negra NYC Local The explosive revolt following the murders of George Floyd, Raynard Brooks, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Loreal Tsingine and Chantel Moore laid bare the…
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Statement: Choose Food Over Rent
The following is a statement from the Americas Coordination / Coordinadora de las Américas, a joint project between Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation (U.S), Solidaridad (Chile), and Acción Socialista Libertaria (Argentina). Español Abajo The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated an already difficult situation for working class tenants everywhere especially affecting women and migrant communities. Over the…
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Our Lives Are Essential, Capitalism Is Not
A joint statement on the current situation and capitalist back to work push. By Coordinadora de las Américas As the number of infected and deceased increases during this pandemic, we, the working class, continue to pay for the consequences of Capitalism, its ambition and maliciousness. Many governments have refused to enact total quarantines, and those…
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The Lives of Working People Are Worth More Than Profits
An International Worker’s Day statement by Black Rose/Rosa Negra and our comrades in Coordinadora de las Américas. Español Abajo We are experiencing this May 1 at a particular moment in history: the COVID-19 pandemic has made even more evident the global economic recession that emerged last year, deepening the consequences of capitalism, with the working…
