BK/NY – Tuesday, May 22nd – Letter Writing Dinner for Jeremy Hammond
WHAT: Political Prisoner Letter-Writing Dinner
WHEN: 7pm sharp, Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
WHERE: The Base – 1302 Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11221 (directions below)
NOTE: The Base is on the ground floor, is wheelchair accessible, and has a gender neutral toilet.
COST: Free
The weather is getting better and we are drawing ever so nearer to this year’s Running Down the Walls on June 3rd in Prospect Park. In solidarity with our friends, families, and comrades on the inside we look to each other to support the efforts of the radical recipients of this year’s raised funds: the ABCF Warchest and the Revolutionary Liberation Bail Fund (you can donate at PayPal.me/nycabc). We also look to the broader community to take this opportunity to introduce them to anarchist ideals and principles through the support of those who have taken ultimate risks and/or suffered consequences unfathomable to most in order to make their communities and the world at large a better place. We also should probably take the opportunity to show out of towners that not everyone running on the beautiful NYC streets is a disgusting bigoted attorney as this week’s news would understandably, hilariously, lead people to believe.
But just because we are preparing to throw this amazing run/picnic/fundraiser, don’t for one second think we aren’t going to still be hosting our every other week letter writing dinner. This week we are writing to Jeremy Hammond.
Jeremy Hammond is an anarchist computer hacker from Chicago. In November 2013, he was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for leaking the personal information of 860,000 customers of private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor) through the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. This information revealed that Stratfor spies on activists, among others, at the behest of corporations and the U.S. government.
If for what ever reason you can’t make it out to write Jeremy in the company of fellow anarchists and vegan food, we hope you’ll still find some time to write to Jeremy here:
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 prisoner-letter-writing info 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’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.
Directions:
Getting to The Base is simple:
From the M Train:
Central Avenue Stop: Walk east on Myrtle Avenue (away from Hart Street, toward Cedar Street). We’re about two blocks down on the south side of the street.
Knickerbocker Avenue Stop: Walk west on Myrtle Avenue (away from Harman Street, toward Himrod Street). We’re about three blocks down on the south side of the street.
From the L Train:
DeKalb Avenue Stop: Walk south on Stockholm Street (away from Wyckoff Avenue, toward Irving Avenue). We’re about four blocks down, at the intersection of Stockholm Street and Myrtle Avenue.
From the J Train:
Myrtle Avenue Stop: Transfer to the M train and follow the above directions.
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