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  • Subject: [Internationalist] Tomorrow!!! Tree Huggers Ball!!! and Mayday roundup for the triangle
  • Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:32:47 -0700



Dear Members,

In this email You will find info on these events:


1)Sat., April 27th, 2013 Tree Huggers Ball Benefit Against Fracking
2)Wed., May 1st, Mayday Counter-Info Event @ Peace and Justice Plaza
3)Wed., May 1st, Mayday Sidewalk March in Raleigh
4)Sat., May 4th, Youth Organizing Institute Spring Training
5)Sun., May 12th, Mother's Day Anti Prison Noise Demo in Raleigh
6)Wed., May 15th, Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night

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1)Saturday, April 27th, 2013 Tree Huggers Ball Benefit Against Fracking

Lesson at 7:30 p.m. dance at 8:00pm at The Paperhand Puppet Intervention
Studio at 6079 Swepsonville Saxapahaw Rd. in Saxapahaw, NC

Entrance: $10-20 donation $5 for kids under 16

Beginners welcome! You don't need a partner to participate.

Presenting the acclaimed old-time, Southern Appalachian string band The
Roan Mountain Hilltoppers & caller Anna Lena Phillips.

Welcome in the Spring with a square dance benefit & silent auction with
proceeds going to preserve the Piedmont and stop fracking from coming to
North Carolina.

http://croatanearthfirst.com/2013/03/18/2013-treehuggers-ball-april-27th-with-the-roan-mountain-hilltoppers/

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2)Wednesday, May 1st, Mayday Counter-Info Event @ Peace and Justice Plaza

We're announcing a counter-info/tabling/food/music event to celebrate May
Day 2013! Starting at 5pm May 1st (duh), at the 'Peace' and 'Justice'
Plaza folks will be gathering to distribute materials about the history of
may day, news of contemporary struggles in the area, and generally enjoy
each others company and hopefully meet new, likeminded folks.

You're encouraged to bring banners and lit. representing any specific
struggles/groups/publishers/ideas youre excited about, food, playlists (we
re working on it), etc. Also encouraged are quotes by crazy, famous or not
so well known anarchist ne er do wells that fit the occasion, to be read
booming aloud for all to hear. Bringing rope, duct tape, and tables for
distros and banners is probably a good idea too.

Tons of our friends and comrades have been doing lots of badass stuff as
of late, from taking on fracking and giving abbey court's management hell
to maintaining amazing outreach and infrastructure, publishing beautiful
and brilliant pieces, and organizing solidarity with prisoners (and a
hundred other cool things).
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3)Wednesday, May 1st, Mayday Sidewalk March in Raleigh

3-8 p.m. in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina as we rally for:
• Good jobs for all
• Strong unions and collective bargaining rights
• Justice for immigrants and citizenship for all
• A people’s budget
• Stop the attacks on LGBTQ and women
• An end to police brutality, raids, mass incarceration, and deportation

Schedule: http://maydaytrianglenc.wordpress.com/schedule/

Our call to action: http://maydaytrianglenc.wordpress.com/call2action/

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4)Saturday, May 4th, Youth Organizing Institute Spring Training

EDUCATION UNDER ARREST-Youth Organizing Institute Spring Training
Calling all Youth! Register NOW!

Saturday May 4, come to the Youth Organizing Institute’s Spring Training
Day and CONNECT with young people across the triangle who are passionate
about social justice.

You will learn how to:
·FACILITATE your own workshop on the school to prison pipeline!
·TRANSFORM statistics into exciting visuals, maps, media, and spoken word!

Education NOT Incarceration!

For more information, visit wakeyouth.wordpress.com or contact Monse
Alvarez at alvarez.m1992 AT gmail.com.

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5)Sunday, May 12th, Mother's Day Anti-Prison Noise Demo in the vicinity of
State and Bragg in Raleigh.

We'll be breaking the isolation and monotony of the women in the Raleigh
Correctional Center for Women and the North Carolina Correctional
Institution for Women (a minimum-security prison next door to RCCW).
Together these two prisons have almost 1,500 women, almost all of them
mothers. RCCW is the state's largest prison with 1,288 women including
women's death row.

Bring banners,drums, pots and pans, your voice, your love for those inside
and your anger for the walls that separate us.

Mother’s Day began not just as a day to honor mothers, but as a day for
mothers to express solidarity with one another and against the wars that
left widows and orphans impoverished. This Mother’s Day, in honor of this
tradition, there will be a day of solidarity with incarcerated mothers and
against a penal system that disproportionately cages people based on race,
class, and gender non-conformity.

Noise demonstrations outside of prisons are a growing tradition–a way of
expressing solidarity with people imprisoned, sharing joy and celebration
within struggle, and remembering those held captive by the state. Mother’s
Day is, without exaggeration, the most emotional day in women’s prisons.
Few imprisoned mothers will receive a visit from their children this
year–let alone on this day. A noise demo breaks the isolation and
alienation of the cell walls, but we cannot stop there. The captivity of
women does not begin inside those walls, but rather with the threats of
poverty and violence outside them. Liberation means an end to the abusive
economic systems that devalue human needs and relationships, reducing our
mothers to wage slaves and commodities for others’ profits.

Spread the word!!!
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6) Wednesday, May 15th, Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night @ 7pm @
Internationalist Books

The Internationalist Prison Books Collective brings you this month’s
Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night! Write letters and birthday cards
to political prisoners whose birthdays fall during the month of May.
It’s an easy way to let these people know they aren’t forgotten. These men
and women fought for many of the freedoms we take for granted today. If
you can’t make it to the letter writing night then please send a birthday
card from home.



Thanks For Reading,
Solidarity Forever,
Internationalist Books and Community Center



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