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The below article was taken from the new EWOK! (formerly known as the Twin Cities Eco-Prisoner Support Committee) zine, that can be downloaded here midwestgreenscare.org .
Its contents are especially relevant with reports and confirmationsof federal agents recently visiting people in Traverse City, MI an Lexington, KY. How we interact with the state and what to do when its agents come knocking is something communities should be pro actively discussing before it happens.
Love and Rage,
Got Your Back Collective
When an Agent Knocks, Talk About It
Often, when folks find themselves having been visited or otherwise solicited for information by law enforcement, their reaction is to keep the fact that they’ve been targeted for government harassment quiet. In reality, however, the worst thing (next to cooperating!) that you can do in this situation is to keep it to yourself. In doing so, you deprive yourself of community support at a time that may be stressful and even
terrifying and, simultaneously, you help the government maintain a veil of secrecy around the harassment and surveillance they use to destroy resistance movements.
Many people who’ve been harassed by law enforcement officers report having been threatened with negative consequences should they choose to go public about the incident. This, like so much of what they’ll tell you, is utter and complete bullshit. YOU ARE NOT LEGALLY BOUND TO KEEP THEIR SECRETS, and the fact that they often lie and try to convince you that you are only speaks to the fact that doing so benefits them, while spreading the word benefits us. Part of their strategy for repressing dissent is to quietly isolate individuals from their communities and terrorize them into cooperating in their efforts. If we expose what they’re doing every time they do it, we strip them of the freedom and protection that secrecy offers- think of it as a little counter-counter-insurgency tactic.
Solidarity is a Weapon! It is our responsibility as individuals and as a movement to do everything we can to support our friends and comrades who remain strong in the face of state oppression.
Download our new zine, chock full of tips, pointers, and info regarding Green Scare prisoners and defendants and how you can support them.
And don’t forget, Marie has a new support flyer!
A special video for the June 7th Day of National Resistance Against the Green Scare
DERRICK JENSEN
Acclaimed environmental writer, author of ‘Culture of Make Believe’, ‘A Language Older Than Words’, ‘Endgame’, and other works.
Jensen discusses the recent state repression of activist groups (the “Green Scare”), the state of the environmental defense movement, and the fate of our planet.
All proceeds will benefit the legal fund for Marie Mason and other recently arrested environmental activists. This is part of the June 7th National Day of Resistance Against the Green Scare.
If you cannot make this event but would like to donate to the legal fund, you can do so at http://freemarie.org.
You can now download a half-page general support flyer for Marie here!
