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Anarchist Black Cross Network: Resistance is Global
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What is the Anarchist Black Cross Network?
The Anarchist Black Cross Network is a decentralized and egalitarian network of organizations committed to the original ideals of the Anarchist Black Cross movement -- of seeing prisons and the poverty, racism and genocide that accompanies them to be symptoms of a social order whose last days are near.
From country to country and state to state, figures are staggering, but the facts remain the same: Third World/indigenous/people of color and the working class and poor are forced into existences in which communities are gentrified; in which they are targeted over race and class or worse if they are "illegal" immigrants or refugees; health care, child care, food and rents go out of reach in costs; and their "choices" are nothing more than setups to lock them away. Revolutionaries who speak out and fight against the conditions of society are imprisoned or killed. And we are expected to stand by until they come for us, if they haven't done it already. To this, we say no!
Former Black Panther, political prisoner and a longtime anarchist revolutionary named Lorenzo Komboa Ervin proposed an idea in 1991 for an ABC Network. His ideas, while written over a decade ago, embody principles that define our movement:
