The Antifascist turnout was better than expected. We probably ended up doubling or tripling the nazis’ numbers. So we really made it clear who the Kansas City people stand with, and they stand against the NSM, the KKK and these white supremacists espousing bigotry and hate.

Unfortunately, one Antifa sympathizer was arrested after becoming so enraged they started throwing coins at the police and nazis. But aside from that it remained peaceful and the Antifa were successful in drowning out the messages of hate and ignorance with their noise demo. You should have heard how loud we got when the nazi speaker said he wanted KC streets to run with anarchist blood. Truly deafening.

There were several groups being represented on the protest side including Kansas City Antifa, Ida B Wells Anti-Racist Coalition, IWW, Socialist Workers Party, Communist Party, etc.

But I’d stay away from Westport tonight, the nazis are down there drinking and some say they’re armed so be careful tonight folks!

NYPD And Queens Residents Clash After Police Beat Two Brothers In Baisley Projects

If you measure the success of the New York City Police Department in terms of how many residents are angry at it, don’t trust it, say they’ve been wronged by it, or could’ve been eaten by it, the NYPD is doing great!

But by many other measures, not so much.

Last night, the arrest of two men outside of the Baisley Park Housing Projects in Jamaica, Queens led to protests and a standoff with riot police.

The NYPD claims officers spotted Raynard Fields, 27, and Corey Crichlow, 33, sitting in a car and holding drugs. When they attempted to make an arrest, the NYPD said one man pushed an officer to the ground. But residents watching the interaction said the officers were the needlessly violent ones. The NYPD apparently dragged one suspect out of his car and beat him as he lay on the ground. When the other suspect tried to help his friend, cops beat him too, residents said. According to their uncle Rev. Richard Hogan, no drugs were found on the men.

Cousin Tyniera Hogan, 32, had her phone snatched by an officer when trying to record the arrest. 

“(Cops) were kicking (Crichlow) in the face, stomping him, leaning on him with their knees,” said cousin Tyniera Hogan, 32. “He was trying to get up, but they kept pushing him back down … it didn’t look like he was resisting.”

About 50 residents marched to the 113th precinct to protest the violence, where they were met by dozens of cops in riot gear.

“I am sick of the 113th Precinct harassing the young black men in the Baisley projects,” resident Kathy Moore, 40, told the Daily News.

The protest ended peacefully, but tensions with the NYPD have been increasing over the past few months.

The NYPD has also been in the hot-seat recently over the shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray in Brooklyn. The officers involved in that incident had previously been accused of civil rights abuses, and witnesses said that Gray was running away from cops when he was shot, not pointing a gun at them, as the NYPD claimed.

REBLOG FOR SOLIDARITY WITH VILLA AMALIAS

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Police Raid One of The Oldest Squats In Athens, Greece

At approximately 07:00 GMT+2 on December 20th, riot police raided the anarchist squat Villa Amalias in Athens. Eight people were detained inside the building — later on, they were all arrested and charged with felonies on ludicrous evidence. The building has been sealed off and is guarded 24/7 by riot police since. Sunday Dec 23 has been named a day of solidarity with those arrested in Villa and with the squat; follow all updates via Villa Amalias raid tag; organise actions of solidarity where you live.

Ī Vílla Amalías katálīpsī tha meínei! Villa Amalias will remain a squat!

FUCK THIS. You can raid our squats, but you cannot stop our communities! Solidarity with all who resist fascism.