Bay Area Anti Repression Committee

(Antifa)

"OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT:

We are working directly with theNational Lawyers Guildto provide legal and jail support.

As of this writing, we know most of those arrested were cited and released. We know that anti-repression support will look different under the new COVID-19 policies but keep an eye out for updates.

For ways to support Minneapolis uprisings please check out the Minnesota Freedom Fund for latest updates on where to direct support and donations at https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/

To support arrestees in NYC, please make a donation to either Venmo – @bailoutnycmay – or to CashApp – $bailoutnycmay

To help post bail for medically vulnerable people held in NYC jails, check out COVID Bailout NYC at https://www.covidbailout.org/

Please be patient as information changes rapidly and please continue checking for updates on our website: https://antirepressionbayarea.com "

https://antirepressionbayarea.com/minneapolis-solidarity-statement/

>>9462539

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lawyers_Guild

Pooja Gehi is the current Executive Director

Currently, she serves as the Executive Director of theNational Lawyers Guild.

>>9462558

"“Racialized, violent policing of Black, Brown, and Indigenous bodies has always existed in this country. Now is the time for accountability. Property can always be replaced. Black lives can not,” stated NLG Executive Director Pooja Gehi. "

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/02/18833636.php

>>9462574

>>9462578 - There were around in FERGUSON.

National Lawyers Guild Provides Critical Support for Demonstrators in Ferguson, Condemns State of Emergency

"FERGUSON, MO - Police violently cracked down on activists yesterday after imposing a State of Emergency in St. Louis County in an effort to stifle protest commemorating the murder of Michael Brown one year ago. More than 150 people were arrested in multiple demonstrations across the St. Louis area, including at least nine Legal Observers with the National Lawyers Guild (NLG).

“The NLG condemns the State of Emergency in St. Louis and the targeting of political organizers,” saidNLG Executive Director Pooja Gehi, who was arrested last night while observing police.“My wrongful arrest while trying to record police abuse is further evidence that law enforcement has nothing but contempt for political resistance and those who would try to protect it.”

More than 65 people were arrested earlier on Monday at the Department of Justice and at least 85 people were arrested while trying to disperse after a freeway blockade in west St. Louis County. Arrestees also include multiple medics, who were in the streets to administer healthcare to injured protesters. While some are starting to be released, many still remain in jail and in some cases are being denied food and water. At least one NLG Legal Observer was interrogated while in jail."

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/08/11/national-lawyers-guild-provides-critical-support-demonstrators-ferguson-condemns

Digital Security Tools for Organizing with the CLDC

2020/05/07 The Final Straw Radio

(Antifa comms?)

Digital Security Tools for Organizing with the CLDC

"We’re happy to share the rest of our conversation with Michele Gretes, director of the Digital Security project at theCivil Liberties Defense Center, and Cora Borradaile, who is on the board of the CLDC. For this podcast special, you’ll hear the two discuss different tools for more secure, encrypted communication that is available on various platforms to folks organizing. They publish guides on CLDC.org/Security. We discuss the end-to-end encrypted alternative to Slack (Keybase) **, pgp email encryption (particularly the enigmail tool), Signal Messenger, problems with Whatsapp, Cryptpad, Jitsi, Wire, VPNs and The Onion Router,the TorBrowser, OnionShare, Zoom, Protonmail and some of the challenges of running longstanding movement infrastructure such as the RiseUp collective does (plus their file sharing and pad services). Check our show notes for links to some of these projects."

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2020/05/07/digital-security-tools-for-organizing-with-the-cldc/

>>9462636 - more Antifa comms?

RiseUp collective

"Why Riseup is needed

Can you rely on a corporate email provider for confidentiality of your sensitive email communications? Not only do they typically scan and record the content of your messages for a wide variety of purposes, they also concede to the demands of governments that restrict digital freedom and fail to have strict policies regarding their user’s privacy. Not to mention their obviously commercial interests put commercial email providers at odds with what we are doing. The U.S. government practices “full pipe monitoring” and association mapping, which gives them the ability to build a detailed map of how our social movements are organized, worse this gives them precise information about what linkages should be disrupted in order to disrupt large social movements.

We believe it is vital that essential communication infrastructure be controlled by movement organizations and not corporations or the government.

We strive to keep our mail as secure and private as we can. We do not log your IP address. (Most services keep detailed records of every machine which connects to the servers. We keep only information which cannot be used to uniquely identify your machine). All your data, including your mail, is stored by riseup.net in encrypted form. We work hard to keep our servers secure and well defended against any malicious attack. We do not share any of our user data with anyone. We will actively fight any attempt to subpoena or otherwise acquire any user information or logs. We will not read, search, or process any of your incoming or outgoing mail other than by automatic means to protect you from viruses and spam or when directed to do so by you when troubleshooting."

https://riseup.net/en/about-us

>>9462658

Morning, Fred!