R2K+10 honors the 10th anniversary of the direct action mobilization against the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in the year 2000.
Please enjoy these audio interviews with 6 former SLAM members who participated in R2K! Here is a short segment with wisdom from everyone:
Kai, Nermeen, Sandra, Anna, Mariano, and Kazembe talk about R2K
Below are the bios of each person and a list of audio segments with descriptions. All interviews were conducted and edited by Suzy Subways.
Kazembe is a writer and cultural organizer from the Bronx, NY, who works at the Brecht Forum. Click on the links below to listen to these audio segments:
SLAM’s direct action experience on access to CUNY, police brutality, and political prisoners
Kazembe on R2K’s historical moment
Kazembe on the raid of the Puppet Warehouse
Kazembe’s arrest and jail experience
Complete interview with Kazembe
Nermeen was a SLAM member for 5 years. She is a mother and works with senior community members in Queens. Click on the links below to listen to these audio segments:
Nermeen on how the puppets worked with the lockdowns
Nermeen on supporting comrades in jail
Nermeen on flying squads vs. civil disobedience
Nermeen on the tactical successes of R2K
Nermeen on how mentoring worked in SLAM
Complete interview with Nermeen
Kai works with Critical Resistance and has been doing organizing around the prison industrial complex (PIC), which is inclusive of police violence, prisons, jails, courts, surveillance, and political prisoners, since 1978. She also merges visual art and organizing in an effort to reach the imagination and to help spark liberation, whether that’s imagining PIC abolition or being in the year 2078 with multiple genitalia. Click on the links below to listen to these audio segments: (more…)