In this week’s episode of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson sit down for a conversation with Syd and Austin, two community-organizers from Tampa who participated in Occupy ICE TPA. But first, some headlines: John McCain is dead, baby! Chapel Hill radicals tear down Silent Sam monument The August 21 Prison Strike has kicked off and the support has been widespread Virginia’s first anti-protest law arrests targeted oil pipeline demonstrators Rest in power, Donna Castleberry. Defend sex workers! Manafort & Cohen = Bread & Circus The chief executives of America’s top 350 companies earned 312 times more than their workers on average last year. Syd and Austin offer a bit of advice on how to start your own Occupy ICE encampment (just do it!) and walk us through the strategic and symbolic significance of the occupation. Then, the former occupiers explain their motivations for taking direct action against ICE and the DHS. We close with a discussion of the future: where our new battles begin to burn as we fight for a future of abolition. Follow Occupy ICE TPA on Twitter and Facebook and support the defendants in their struggles ahead! Take direct action and tell Chuck Prather to terminate his lease with the DHS. Call (727)896-1080. Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie Outro: “FVCK I.C.E.” by Rebel Diaz
